How Not To Leak The Anointing Of The Holy Spirit

Learning to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit is like getting better at walking carefully with a full open cup of coffee, rather than trying to protect yourself against spillages or using a lid.

When you have a cup of coffee that is full, you are more careful about how you move and you pay more attention to the cup, and less to the surroundings. When your cup is empty, you can easily become careless with it and you focus on everything else.

To put this into perspective, when you don’t live a life focused on God, this is one of the signs that you are not full of the Holy Spirit. Instead of trying to live better for God, we need to focus on being filled with the Holy Spirit. As a result of being filled with God, we become more conscious of God and to please Him, (Ezekiel 36:26).

Be Filled With The Holy Ghost

Religion says you need to get your act together; Jesus says, let Me fill you with My Spirit, and you will live differently. Our focus must be on living full of the Holy Spirit. This does not in any way belittle the need of crucifying the flesh and working out your salvation with fear and trembling.

Paul says in Ephesians 5:18, be filled with the Holy Spirit. He does not say wait for the Spirit to fill you. This is a command. We need to continuously be filled with the Holy Spirit because we leak and spill.

One of the biggest areas where we leak and spill is getting involved in drama. By drama, I mean getting involved in war with people, fighting, loving toxicity, gossiping and feeding on garbage. When you are healthy, drama makes you sick. When you are not healthy, drama fills you. If you are feeding on drama, you are feeding a raven and starving a dove in your life.

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The Raven and The Dove

This example is taken from the story of Noah’s Ark in Genesis 6-9. There were two birds mentioned in the ark: a raven and a dove. They each have very distinct differences.

 – Doves are clean; ravens are unclean.

– Doves are gentle; ravens are birds of prey.

– Doves dwell amid life; ravens dwell in rot and decay. 

– Doves are faithful; Ravens are selfish.

– Doves feeds on greenery; ravens feeds on carcasses. 

Drama drains your peace. If the enemy can’t destroy you, he will drain you through drama. Drama distracts you from building a bigger fire for God and causes you to feed the raven nature instead of the dove.

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Don’t Feed On Drama

When you are focused on drama, you’ll leak the Holy Spirit. When you fix your focus, you will live a filled life, (Acts 7:55-56). If you want to be on fire, protect your focus. When you have fire, you will always have smoke.

The idea is not to try to getting rid of the smoke but keeping the fire of God burning within you. If you begin to focus on clearing the smoke, you are feeding on drama. It is fine to attract drama because you are on fire for God but don’t leak the anointing by focusing on the drama that the fire in your life attracted.

Below are a few points to help you fan the flames and focus on God when smoke and drama come.

When Insults Are Personal, Take It To Prayer, Not To The Public

When the attack feels personal, we need to evaluate when it is actually just our pride and when God’s purpose is affected. The opportunity to pray is lost if you spend your time fighting people. If you respond out of personal hurt, you will only create more drama and leak the Spirit.

People who have revival today usually criticize revival tomorrow. When God does unusual things in your generation that you don’t understand, don’t be quick to criticize it. You have to stay humble by keeping your ears open and your mouth closed.

“But they held their peace and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Do no answer him.”

Isaiah 36:21

Hold Your Peace By Keeping Your Mouth Shut

Sometimes, we lose our peace by opening our mouths. We might win the argument but we lose our peace. If the price for arguing is your peace, it is too high a price. You can know when the Lord is not in something, when you get involved in it and lose your peace.

You can go from anointed to annoying because you leak all the anointing fighting battles you were not anointed to fight. God doesn’t want us to be a garbage can of everyone else’s problems but a temple of the Holy Ghost.

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Protect Your “Pregnancy” By Not Getting Engaged In Drama That Doesn’t Have A Reward

Pregnant people shouldn’t be fighting. They should focus on protecting their pregnancy, not everything else. What is the reward of this battle? That is the question we should ask every time before we respond, reply or get engaged in a battle.

Don’t be so busy battling that you don’t birth anything. Our vision cannot be brought to pass if we are too busy battling instead of birthing. This was David’s approach.

Then David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

1 Samuel 17:26

When you don’t fight giants, you will end up fighting your brothers. We are anointed to win souls, not arguments. You might even win the battle against people, but you will not be slaying giants.

Walking away doesn’t make you weak, it makes you ready for real war. If you waste your anointing fighting brother, you will not have anything left to fight the giants you were called to fight. If we want to win the real battle, we have to walk away from the battles we get lured into that do not have any reward (Nehemiah 6:3).

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