Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:5). The same kind of mind—not another—that was in Christ is offered you. Why does the Bible tell you to take on the mind of Jesus? So you can have the peace that Adam and Eve had, the fellowship of living in the presence of the Lord. The anointing is His presence. Be separated out of self and into Him.

Paul wrote to one church: For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ (I Corinthians 2:16). Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin (I Peter 4:1). Arm yourself with the same mind Jesus had. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil (Ephesians 6:11). The mind of Jesus met the devil head-on and defeated him. The Son of God walked the earth in human form; although He was very God, He took on a human mind, a mind yielded to the Father, a mind with divinity—the Holy Ghost—blended into it.

When God made man and woman, He gave them minds like His, only on a smaller scale. God wanted their minds to think but to think like Him. Nothing degraded or unholy was to enter the mind, nothing to cause sadness. To have that kind of a mind, you must blend with the Holy Spirit.

To blend means to mix, unite. To unite with the Holy Spirit is to go well with Him, to live with Him in harmony all the time the way Jesus did. As the Son of God, Jesus didn’t need the Holy Ghost baptism, and He didn’t need to be baptized in water. However, the man-part of Him needed all of it. Jesus was the anointed one in Heaven, but when He took on the form of flesh, He had to be anointed by the Holy Ghost. Not until He received the Holy Ghost did Jesus begin His ministry. Jesus, in the temple, said, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord (Luke 4:18,19).

To blend is to produce a desired quality. When you blend with the Holy Ghost, you produce that desired quality of the mind that Jesus had. In the soul, you have the Jesus quality if you have been born again, but the mind may not always have it. To be the vessel of honor that God intended, you need a mind to match the soul.

As the soul of a devil-possessed person is taken over by the devils, the soul of a born-again Christian is taken over by the Lord. He is a new creation. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (II Corinthians 5:17). When you receive salvation, the Lord gives you a new mind to go with your reborn soul. You no longer think the way you did when you were in sin; you talk differently. That is the way it is supposed to be.

When God delivers a person, He delivers mind and soul. The divine will of God is complete deliverance. The reason so many Christians today are spiritually crippled is that they have never let their minds be completely delivered; they yielded their souls to God, but not all of their minds.

The Bride, however, will not be crippled. She will walk in the grace and power of Almighty God, taking on the mind of Jesus, nothing less.

God’s people have battled in their minds again and again because they simply did not give Him the whole person. In this last hour, it is a different story. The Bride will be everything that Jesus was when He was here on Earth. Totally, she will blend with her perfect Groom Jesus. For all time and eternity they will be together. With perfect love, perfect peace and joy, the Bride will be the perfect wife.

Analyze your mind with the Word of God and find what kind of mind you have. Consider the Jesus-mind quality. Jesus willed His followers to have His mind. If you are completely yielded to Jesus, you have that quality. Everything He used for His mind you can use for yours; He offers it to you.

Many do not attempt to use what the Lord offers because they don’t think they can have a mind like the mind of Jesus. Some preachers consider it blasphemy to talk about being like Jesus. We can’t be like Jesus through our own efforts; it must be through the Holy Spirit and the blood. The blood of Jesus is what makes us new creations.

Jesus’ anointed mind of flesh blended with the Holy Ghost. The blend of the Holy Ghost was so important that Jesus told the disciples to go to the Upper Room to receive the Holy Ghost, commanding them not to leave until they received Him. And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high (Luke 24:49). And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence (Acts 1:4,5). Jesus told the disciples that he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father (John 14:12). Through the Holy Ghost, the disciples became just like Jesus, doing His work; and because there were numbers of them, they were able to do more works, greater works. However, before the disciples received the Holy Ghost, they failed to be what the Lord knew they could be.

Without the Holy Ghost today, many have failed to carry out the works of Jesus the way God intended. Even those who have received the Holy Ghost have quenched Him, grieved Him until He can do very little with them. The Holy Spirit baptism should be the most welcome experience that has ever happened to you. When the Holy Spirit moves in, it means that the soul has first been cleansed in a perfect manner with the blood of Jesus. Not one particle of sin could be there; if it were, the Holy Spirit would not have baptized you. The mind, the tongue were holy.

Seek the Lord with all your heart, give everything to Him, put your whole self into His hands. Be humble, meek before Him, and stay that way. Keep the same dedication after the Holy Spirit comes in as you had the day you received Him.

When I received salvation, and then a few weeks later, the baptism in the Holy Spirit, I couldn’t get enough of the Lord. I had been reared on the Bible, but it was a new Book to me now, one full of excitement and delight. I took on the mind of the Holy Spirit. It was wonderful the way the Lord would talk to me, the way He dealt with me. He let me know that He wanted me to preach His Gospel, and He would take me over, sing through me in different languages and dialects. I was caught up in the mind of the Spirit. No longer was I interested in my old mind. That old mind was not one that wanted to serve the Lord, to please God, to live in the Holy Scriptures. It wasn’t a mind to pray and fast; now the new mind wanted all those things. It was wonderful to fast, wonderful to live in the Word of God.

Jesus came to give us all abundant life in our daily living. If you don’t have the abundant life in your mind, you are not enjoying what His salvation brings. Your mind doesn’t function with the Holy Spirit. In your mind you are a pauper. How sad to be poor in your mind when you have the richness of salvation in your soul! You feel sorry for people who are physically crippled, but those mentally crippled are worse off. A child of God whose mind won’t work with the Holy Spirit is not able to put into use the things of God that are in the soul. Mentally crippled Christians have a difficult time serving God.

When you are serving God, you have the power of Heaven over the devil. Jesus did not struggle to defeat the devil; He simply rebuked him with the Word of God. Three times He turned the devil back with It is written! Jesus trampled the devil underfoot; it was people who were the problems, people who doubted Him, who did not believe. And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief (Matthew 13:58). But when Jesus found believers, it was a different story. Matthew 9:35 tells us that Jesus went about…healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us (Romans 5:5). The love of God must be shed abroad in the mind as well as in the heart. What kind of mind do you have? Is it a mind of love? Love that is used part-time becomes phony. If you don’t show God’s love in your home, at work, in church or wherever you are, you don’t have the real love of God bubbling in your soul, saith the Lord. You must have genuine love; it must be real in order to make this wonderful blend. Be not deceived about it.

If you fuss, how can you expect to have the love of God? Fussing and God’s love do not blend. Fussing displeases the Lord and grieves the Holy Spirit. The devil has deceived some people; they do not know they have grieved the Holy Spirit. If they continue to grieve the Holy Spirit, they will grieve Him right out of their lives.

People are deceived who fuss and think they are all right because they go to church. They may have enthusiasm, but enthusiasm alone is not the anointing of the Lord. For the moment they show love. Then things go wrong, and they sink into depression, bitterness, anger, defensiveness. They either have the love of God or they don’t.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:7). If you have peace in the soul and yield to the Holy Spirit, He flows that peace to your mind. However, He can only flow through love. The Holy Spirit cannot flow peace or any other fruits of the Spirit—the strength, the greatness and the results of the fruit—to your mind unless love is in your soul. That love must be there, for love is the only channel the Holy Spirit can use. Although the peace of God will keep the mind, many people exist without claiming that peace.

What Is the Anointing?

The Bible speaks much about anointing. The anointing comes with the Holy Ghost; the anointing is the oil of His presence living and dwelling with you. You have His anointing when you have the Holy Ghost.

To anoint means to be set apart. How wonderful to be set apart by God! The born-again are sanctified, set apart. Jesus prayed for His followers: They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth (John 17:16,17). For the Father to sanctify people through the truth, through His Word, is to set them apart. Set them into the anointing of your presence like you set me, Jesus was saying.

You cannot have God’s anointing and be part of the world. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him (I John 2:15).

To anoint means to pour upon with the idea of consecrating a person or thing to God, to set a person aside for a special work or office. In the Old Testament days this was done often. Then the anointing was outward, for the Holy Ghost baptism had not yet been given. This outward anointing is a type of the anointing that dwells on the inside after the Holy Ghost baptism is received.

To give you an idea of what the anointing meant in the Old Testament, let’s first go to Exodus. The Lord instructed Moses to anoint those who would be priests: Anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office (Exodus 28:41).

The blood of animals was used in some of the anointings. And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it (Exodus 29:36). Here blood is used to anoint the altar, to sanctify it. Today the altars of our hearts are sanctified with the blood of Jesus. We don’t have to apply external means to be sanctified; we only need His blood in our hearts. His blood is eternal, divine. After you are saved, it will never leave your soul unless you willfully sin against God.

What was used in the Old Testament anointings depended on what the work was for. Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him (Exodus 29:7). The anointing oil of the Spirit poured upon heads signified the anointing poured upon minds. Since Pentecost, the mind is blended with the Holy Spirit if the person is anointed; there should be no separation.

God instructed Moses: And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony (Exodus 30:26). All had to be anointed that was to be set apart. After man built the ark of the covenant, God anointed it, took it over, separated it from man and it became holy.

And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office (Exodus 30:30). Today the blood and the Holy Spirit consecrate you; you are consecrated through the Spirit of God. God wants to set you apart for every work He needs done. Without being anointed by the Holy Spirit to perform that work, you are not set apart to do it.

And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy (Exodus 40:9). Oil was used in this anointing. In the Holy Spirit are many, many anointings. It would take a revelation from God to let us know how many kinds there are. As many anointings as you need in a day are available to you. You have, for instance, anointings to clear your mind. Why carry a mind like a junkpile when the anointing of God can give you a clear mind? Treasure your mind; keep the treasures of God in it, good things.

Take your troubles and the troubles others may dump on you to Jesus. He said, Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light (Matthew 11:28-30).

The Lord will hear your cry. The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles (Psalm 34:15,17). If you are righteous, He hears you every time you pray. Blood-bought, blood-washed Holy Ghost-filled believers have a direct line to Heaven. But you cannot call Heaven any time unless you have the mind of Jesus.

Jesus said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always (John 11:41,42). Jesus talked to the Father whenever He wanted. His mind was clear. When you have the Holy Ghost and are yielded to Him, your mind is clear.

Some people have sound minds in the world, but spiritually speaking, their minds are confused. They can’t seem to keep their minds on the Lord unless they find themselves in an emergency situation. I once read about a man who boldly announced that he didn’t believe in God. But indoors one day he suddenly found himself in an earthquake. Bricks were flying everywhere. He ran out of the building, threw up his hands and cried, “Oh God, have mercy!” People know there is a God, but often it’s easier to deny He exists than to acknowledge that they don’t want to serve Him.

God was precise in His instructions to Moses about the Old Testament anointings. And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy (Exodus 40:10).

And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office (Exodus 40:13).

And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons’ after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them (Exodus 29:29).

And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him (Leviticus 8:12).

Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them (Numbers 7:1).

It was a duty of God’s prophets to anoint. Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head (I Samuel 10:1). Samuel anointed Saul to be the first king of Israel. A handsome man and humble, Saul began his reign with a decisive victory over the enemy. But in time he became puffed up by his position and success. Pride took him over until he rejected God’s way in favor of his own. Because he rejected God, God rejected him as king of Israel. And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel (I Samuel 15:17)?

Samuel was grieved to the core by Saul’s failure. And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons (I Samuel 16:1).

Samuel went to the house of Jesse, looked on Eliab and said, Surely the Lord’s anointed is before him. But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart (I Samuel 16:6,7). The sons of Jesse passed before Samuel. Are all your children here? Samuel asked. Jesse said one more remained, the youngest who was keeping the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither (I Samuel 16:11). David came in, Jesse’s youngest son. The Lord told Samuel, Arise, anoint him: for this is he. Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward (I Samuel 16:12,13).

David must have been shocked when the Spirit of the Lord, the Holy Ghost, came on him, for he wasn’t ready to do all God called him to do—and yet in a way he was. He had killed a lion and a bear to protect his flock. He knew God. Those times Saul was troubled by an evil spirit, David was brought in to play his harp to drive that spirit off. The Lord poured songs through David, for he had a mind to praise God, and he became Israel’s greatest king.

When David first attempted to move the ark of the covenant to the city of David, a man was killed for touching it. Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God (II Samuel 6:6,7). Good intentions cannot take the place of God’s anointing. Man was not to defile anything that was anointed.

Those who were anointed in the Old Testament days had great favor with God. Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm (I Chronicles 16:22). The LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand (Psalm 20:6). The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed (Psalm 28:8). A few people in the Old Testament were called God’s anointed, but all Holy Ghost-filled people today are God’s anointed if they are walking in His divine will. His saving strength is promised to all Holy Spirit-filled people whose minds are stayed on the Lord. We don’t have to fear, we don’t have to worry when we are anointed by God, when we have the Holy Ghost’s anointing.

Do you have a mind to praise God or a mind to grumble? God never intended man and woman to complain, to find fault, criticize and have fits of temper.

Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, The spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue (II Samuel 23:1,2 ). What talent the Lord gave David, the sweet Psalmist!

David’s reign ended, and Solomon was anointed to be king. Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon (I Kings 1:34).

Later, God told Elijah to anoint Hazael to be king over Syria: And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room (I Kings 19:15,16). God wants all the leaders of His people to be anointed.

Jesus sent out the twelve two by two to minister to the people. And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them (Mark 6:13). The disciples anointed with oil, signifying that the presence of God was doing the healing. But notice that the apostles did not anoint with oil after they received the Holy Ghost on the Day of Pentecost. They had the Holy Ghost anointing within; they had the gifts. It wasn’t necessary for them any longer to use oil to anoint. Anyone who doesn’t have the gift of miracles or the gifts of healing should anoint with oil. I anointed with oil before I received any of the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit, but from the time He gave me the gifts of healing, the Lord never moved on me to anoint with oil again.

Jesus said, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord (Luke 4:18,19). God anointed Jesus, and He anoints us for what He wants us to do. Many have failed because they didn’t use His anointing. The Spirit of God will come upon them, but they don’t live in a way that enables them to carry the anointing in their minds, in their spirit. When you don’t carry the anointing in your mind, you grieve the Holy Spirit and tie His hands. You cannot have your mind cluttered and expect God to use you. You must put your mind in condition to use the anointing.

The anointing of the Holy Spirit isn’t poured on the outside; it abides in you. The anointing is His presence. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him (I John 2:27). John was trying to get people away from false doctrine. It wasn’t what man thought about the anointing that counted, but what the Holy Ghost taught. The Holy Ghost is the teacher. Always check what man teaches with the Scripture to see if there is agreement. If you have the Holy Ghost, you have the teacher. He will let you know whether or not you are being taught right. The Holy Spirit teaches only the truth. Abide in Him the way the truth teaches: free from all sin.

Children of God love righteousness and hate all wickedness. When you love righteousness with God’s love, you hold to that which belongs to God; you hold to God’s hand at all times. Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows (Psalm 45:7). The Holy Spirit keeps His presence flowing into your mind, that oil of gladness, as long as you yield to Him.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over (Psalm 23:5). The cup the Psalmist refers to is not the soul, but the mind. The soul is bigger than a cup; there is no limit to its capacity, but the mind holds a limited amount. It’s a cup.

If you have the Holy Ghost, certainly you have Him in your soul, but do you have Him in your mind? The soul is sealed with the blood of Jesus by the Holy Spirit; now the mind is what you need to work on. The mind and soul must work together in order for you to be blessed. The Holy Spirit will not empty the mind cup for you; you must do that so He can cleanse it and fill it with things of the Lord. The Holy Spirit fills the mind from the soul. On the other hand, when the devil is in a person, he uses the wickedness in the soul to flow through the mind to destroy.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God (Romans 12:1,2). The soul, if you are born again, is holy, acceptable to God. He intends you to be transformed by the renewing of your mind, different from the world. Renew your mind not in the world, but renew your mind in the Lord and be transformed. The world doesn’t have a renewal of the mind. The devil has no life to renew with; he is death. He will destroy the mind if he can. It takes life to renew the mind, and the Lord is the life-giver. In His presence is life everlasting, but the mind cup must be cleaned up, cleansed to accept that renewal. The mind with the wrong things in it does not prove what is good, acceptable and perfect, what is the will of God. Many are deceived because their minds have not been renewed.

To renew means to make new, as if new again, to make fresh or strong, to bring back into good condition. When you go into a restaurant you want everything to be clean, sterilized. If you get a cup with lipstick on the rim, you want a new one. At home you clean the cup you drink from, make it like new as though it has never been used, but what about your mind? Do you walk around with junk, clutter in your mind? The leeches of the mind are terrible, worse than flies in your coffee.

To renew means to give new spiritual strength to the mind, to make the mind come into greater accord with His Spirit. You use drinking cups over and over. If you never washed them, they would be hotbeds of germs. As daily you wash your drinking cups, daily see that the mind cup is washed also. It isn’t enough, I say again, to have the soul pure and clean through the blood of Jesus; the mind must be kept clean, renewed daily.

To renew is to fill with a fresh supply. After the mind is cleansed, then refill it with a fresh supply from the Lord. No matter how many people have used your coffee cup, if it is cleaned up, sterilized, it is ready for a fresh supply.

To renew also means to start over. How many people start over with their mind every day? Sometimes you have to start over more than once a day, start over with a clean, sterilized mind cup. Dirty dishes are never appetizing, and neither is a dirty mind. Dishes left overnight in the sink need to be soaked before they are washed, and a dirty mind needs to be soaked in the cleansing of the Holy Spirit.

Never go to bed with a dirty mind cup. If you go to bed with things on your mind that are not right, the Holy Spirit cannot work with you while you sleep. How can the Holy Spirit fill your mind from your soul when the mind is filled with junk? Some people get out of bed in the morning, troubled, beaten down. They have not gone to bed with the right kind of mind so that the Holy Spirit could bring from the soul the greatness of God and fill the mind cup.

Do you wake up each morning to the Holy Spirit or to self? You are not fit to meet the world until you are dressed with the Holy Spirit, until the mind is filled with the Holy Spirit. The wrong thoughts will come to your mind, but the Holy Spirit can purge out those thoughts with the living water flowing from your soul. You don’t need to keep battling in your mind. You may ask the Lord to bless you, but if He looks into your mind and sees hate, arrogance, rebellion stubbornness, spite, clamor or any one of those things, He finds no room to hold blessings. The mind is too full of the wrong things.

The Holy Spirit can only put into the mind that which can bless, help and operate through you. His thoughts must be in the mind. That’s the reason you dare not hold a grudge against anyone or anything. A destructive thought may come to you, but you don’t have to embrace it in your spirit. If you love it, dwell on it, want it, it is yours. However, when you don’t claim it, it has no power over you. Bad thoughts, unclean thoughts cling like leeches. Lingering in your mind, they leech on to it, add more leeches and grow stronger and stronger. Empty your mind; start each day with a clean cup, and you will get along much better.

Harness the mind by yielding to the Holy Spirit, and He will bring it to the place it needs to be, strengthen it so that you can keep your mind on the things of God, so you can hold to them. The waters of Niagara are harnessed to produce great power. The mind will also have great powers to perform when it is harnessed with the living waters, the anointing, the greatness of Heaven. When the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit are produced in the soul, the Holy Spirit has much with which to fill the cup.

To renew means to begin again. Each new day, you’re beginning again. The Lord has given you a new day. By keeping the old things in your mind, you’ve ruined that new day, taken away the strength God has given you. You will not live a bit better or have any more happiness than you had yesterday. The same old things in that cup that have caused you to be weak have not left. You are still disgruntled, discontented, arrogant and rebellious.

Our outlook depends on what you have in the cup. You wonder why people do the things they do: It’s because of what is in the cup. Have you ever seen someone throw a fit who you never thought would behave that way? Anger was in the cup.

Like little birds in the nest that open their beaks every time they hear a noise, some minds are open to every noise of the enemy. Nestlings don’t look at what mama bird is going to drop into their mouths, and many people don’t look at what the devil is dropping into their minds, either. Wait until you hear the truth before you accept what is being said.

Don’t reach for the things of the world, but be submissive to the things of God, transformed by the renewing of your mind. The mind must be separated from the world with God’s love, separated into His righteousness, into His truth. Then the anointing will work. Without the love of God you are not separated from the world, from that which is wrong in the eyes of God.

The Lord gave you power in your soul for your mind to be transformed. The Holy Spirit is the agent; remember, He’s the one who operates what is in your soul, but you must yield to Him so He can. Yield your mind to the Holy Spirit; be transformed into God’s happiness, joy unspeakable and be full of glory. You may understand sadness unspeakable, but God wants you to understand joy unspeakable, joy so great that words can’t describe it.

If you are born new, you have everlasting life in your soul, the joy and peace of God. Like rivers of living water, that joy and peace can come gushing through the mind. Hear what the Spirit is saying. With the wrong thing in the mind cup, you will not hear His precious directions. You have control over your mind, over what you want to feed it.

To be so set apart with the anointing of God is indeed wonderful. Be set apart so God can transform you into what He needs for the day, for that special person He wants you to bring to Him. Take anointings to help people, and remember that the same anointing won’t work for everything. Different people require different anointings. The Lord flows to the mind what He wants you to tell the one you are talking to. The Lord gave us this greatness, and He serves it in different ways, but if the mind is not renewed, transformed, that flow is blocked.

The Early Church found that man didn’t live by bread alone. They dined on the living Word. It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4). By each word of life from the lips of God, life flowed to the Early Church; and today it will flow to the Bride, saith the Lord, in this her last hour. Jesus conquered death, hell and the grave for us. He walked away from the battleground on Earth with His man and woman cradled in His arms of love.

Bringing protection for soul, mind and body, the Holy Ghost came on the Day of Pentecost; He came to stay, to teach, to sing, to help God’s people make melody in their hearts. Today the Holy Spirit anoints us to praise the Lord and rejoice in Him. When praise is a chore, you don’t have the anointing.

Since the Holy Spirit flows the things of God from the soul into the mind, you can have the life of Jesus flowing through your mind daily. If your mind is not right, you need to look into the soul and make sure the soul is all right. If the soul is sealed with the blood, you are not letting the Holy Spirit flow what is in the soul into the mind.

The Holy Ghost will not use stale water, only the water of life. Jesus said, Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life (John 4:14). The Lord flows that living water into your mind to give you peace, joy as long as your mind is clean. Don’t stockpile the wrong things in your mind. Keep only the good; get rid of the bad. If you have the wrong things in your mind, the devil has hold of you. The devil is the spirit of wrong, and his leeches in your mind can control it again and again, bring in more bad thoughts that bring in more leeches.

Remember, the soul is sealed with the blood; the mind is not. The mind is preserved with the holy anointing. With the anointing flowing, your mind is sweet, kind, tender, gentle. A great warmth is there.

I am so grateful that the Lord willed us to have the same kind of mind that Jesus had! He put it all within our reach. Jesus showed us what it meant to have a wonderful, clear mind of love in the face of great strife and persecution. In Gethsemane He knew that those who came to arrest Him hated Him, but look at the love He displayed. Even in that time of great turmoil He reached down with love to heal the ear of a man full of hate for Him. It will take an eternity to learn all we can about Jesus.

Why be bound with anything when the anointing breaks the yokes? And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing (Isaiah 10:27). Leeches of the mind can’t stay if you have the anointing of the mind. The reason minds are leeched, saith the Lord, is that those minds don’t have the anointing. When you don’t have the anointing in your mind working on a regular basis, there will be leeches. Many are leeched because they lack the anointing of the mind. They can’t think the way God wants them to think all the time. It’s part-time thinking. Depression and oppression move in and they fail God.

If you have any yokes, any bondages, the anointing can destroy them. Some people are so bound in their spirits that they cannot pray; they have no joy, no peace. Since they don’t have the peace of God nor carry the love of God, they can’t share it with others. Many Christians are unhappy in marriage because they are bound. It isn’t necessary, it’s uncalled for and there is no excuse for it, saith the Lord.

How are minds leeched? Through a lack of the anointing. You must keep the anointing working all the time to stay free of the leeches. If your mind is leeched, take this message of truth and clean the cup; let the Holy Spirit flow the greatness of God—the anointing—from the soul into the mind. When you do that, the leeches will have to drop off, saith the Lord. They cannot remain unless they have something of the devil to hold on to, something of disobedience, something against God.

Stubbornness, ill-will toward others, gossip, abusiveness will give leeches a hold. You will never get rid of them, saith the Lord, when they can find something to feed on. Egotism, selfishness are leech fodder. Leeches feed on the flesh, on destructive temper, on those who refuse to use the fruit of self-control, one of the nine fruits of the Spirit produced in the soul. The spirit of arrogance, of being opinionated, of thinking only your way is right are all toeholds for leeches. Idle words, a mind that is not sober, one that is intoxicated on the world block the flow of the Holy Spirit.

You can pray until your tongue falls out and never get away from the leeches if you refuse to let go of destructive thoughts. Obedience destroys the contamination of disobedience. Truth destroys the false. The fruit of self-control destroys the spirit of egotism and self.

If you don’t have a leeched mind, your mind can be filled daily with the Holy Spirit, with the greatness of the Lord. He is there for that purpose. He is to be your teacher, your comforter.

The Holy Spirit will give you the things to think on: Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things (Philippians 4:8). Feast on these thoughts and the leeches cannot stay. The anointing will break all bondages, all fetters, all yokes. The anointing destroys the power of the devil.

In Enoch, God found a man so similar to the first Adam before the fall that God decided He would not leave him on Earth for the devil to keep fighting. The Lord enjoyed Enoch so much He took him home before death had a chance to snuff out his life. One day soon the Lord will look down, see the bridal company as pure as Adam and Eve before the fall, and He will send Jesus to take them all home, to take them out of this old world. They won’t have to live outside of Earth’s Eden any longer; they will have a heavenly Eden to delight in as the endless ages roll.

The living waters are flowing in the Bride as she walks on the earth. The Holy Ghost has come to tabernacle in houses of clay, to live inside us to make people the God/man, the God/woman He wants to see, people holy and consecrated to the Lord.

Let peace and joy overflow your mind, Heaven’s gladness. Think about your cup. Search your mind; find why you don’t function with the Holy Spirit the way you could. You wonder why the greatness of God doesn’t happen in your life? This is the reason, saith the Lord: The mind cup is not ready. But the Lord is preparing you to bring you into the place He brought me. He brought me into this place without explaining it to me. I took what He gave me; I took it with fastings, prayers and looking to Him. I emptied my cup that night I was born again, kept it emptied so He could fill it up. I learned that Jesus had more to serve than the world could give. Daily I could declare that my cup runneth over. Why would Christians resign themselves to live in depression? For he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee (Hebrews 13:5).

Sorrows will come, but the Lord is there to sustain us. When the Lord took my wife Angel, I went into a horrible state of grief. My cup was filled with sorrow until it felt as though I could no longer breathe. I was in a million pieces, but with His tenderness day by day, bit by bit He put me back together. So living, patient and kind, He moved in to live with me.

My sisters, having no idea that Angel would die the next day, had come from North Carolina to be with me. One of my sisters said the house filled with the presence of God like a mighty cloud that lingered. The Lord bathed me in His love and peace, but my mind was overwhelmed with sorrow, and I didn’t have the will to empty it: I was too wounded, too hurt, too cast down. You must have the will to empty something from the mind before you can let it go. I didn’t think I could laugh a genuine laugh again, but God has made me to laugh. I don’t believe today that there is a happier person in the world than me; I don’t believe anyone laughs more. I don’t have to be with people to laugh; I laugh in the presence of God. I have laughter flowing from my soul; the Holy Spirit flows it into my mind.

You who are in sorrow, heartache, the Lord can make you laugh again. You who have so many tears in the mind, so much sorrow, so much hurt that you feel as though you can never again have a cup of happiness, peace, joy: Through Jesus you can.

If you don’t have Jesus in your soul, won’t you say the sinners’ prayer with me now? Oh, God: Save my soul! I’m so sorry that I sinned against you, but I have come home. I’m going to serve you, Lord, the rest of my life. I believe the blood of Jesus washes away all of my sins. Come into my heart, Jesus!

If you meant that prayer, you can say, Hallelujah, He has come! Hallelujah, He is mine!

You who are sick and afflicted, use this prayer for healing as a point of contact. I’m not a healer; I represent the healer. I’m a believer, His believer, just an instrument of clay that God has chosen to use to pour His power through to work His will for people. Never give the instrument the glory; the glory goes to the healer, Jesus.

Lord, I bring the sick and afflicted to you. Lay a healing hand on the sick and afflicted now; let them feel your holy presence. Let them feel your holy anointing as it goes into every muscle, every nerve, killing the diseases and bringing twisted bodies to normal. In the holy name of the Lord, heal! Heal! in the holy all-powerful name of Jesus, the mighty prophet and Son of God. The healing power is flowing; God is moving. Take that holy presence, that holy anointing, that holy power and let it work in you night and day. It got me well, brought me back from the edge of the grave, and it can get you well, too. I’m still shouting Life! after all these years. Think what I have said to you about your mind; empty it of anything that would block God’s anointing. Renew the mind as many times as it needs to be cleansed during the day and be transformed into the person the Lord wants you to be, into His greatness, His peace and love and grace.

Oh saith the Spirit of God unto this people: I have given you this revelation. I have given it to you on purpose because I am seeking to bring you into all of my greatness in this your last hour. I need witnesses; I need happy witnesses. I need witnesses that will serve my greatness, and your mind must be renewed. You must be transformed again and again to be that person that I can use. I will use you if you will yield to me, but I must have your mind. I cannot serve people the greatness that I have placed in your soul unless I can use your mind. I have given you my Holy Spirit. No one else can serve from your soul to your mind but my Spirit. Be conscious of the One who dwells in you. Be conscious that He dwells there all the time. Be conscious that He is ready to fill your mind. Your cup will run over—your mind will run over with my gladness because I will give you the anointing of gladness. I will give you my peace in a world where there is very little peace. I will give you my joy in a world where there isn’t much joy. People will behold your joy and peach and love, and they will reach out and you will be able to serve them. You will be able to fill their cup—which will amaze them—as you pour my greatness into their minds. When they taste of the Lord, they will open up their souls, and I’ll be able to redeem them and set them free.

Yield to my Spirit. Know that I am your Lord. Know that I am Master and Savior and your soon-coming King. Trust in me with all of your heart, and let me serve your mind instead of the world serving your mind. Let me pour into your mind through my great anointing so that that anointing will keep your mind in perfect condition that I can use it to serve others. I love you. I love you with an unending love, saith the Lord.