These are notes from the MBC Subject Manual captured by scribes during Apostolic Conferences hosted by Harvester International Ministries during the restoration of the Apostolic office to the church in the 1990’s. Much of the notes were by By Elder Anderson Williams from the West Indies.
Introduction
Every generation demands an anointing that is relevant to its time, an anointing that’s in touch with the time. When you understand the level of hostility that the devil has released and is expressing himself in, you’ll understand that the church cannot survive with anything less than a radical, authoritative, governmental and pioneering spirit. Anything less than that is totally out of line with the prevailing demands of God. There are several things about the Cyrus-anointing that brings us to these issues. There are certain dimensions of apostolic characteristics locked in Cyrus as a type of the apostolic.
Job 29:6-17
Job discovered the position that accesses the double portion and anointing
There is a certain position that accesses an anointing. Cream is solid milk. Rivers gives the understanding of abundance, of a continuous flow, of accessibility. You can live/step into a spiritual dimension where you don’t flow and stop … rivers don’t flow and stop! When God brings us to a place in Him where flowing in the things of the Spirit is as easy as having cereal on a Monday morning, we can live in two realms with no problem. It’s there for us to step into right now.
Job 42:2-6 “I know that You can do everything, And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You.
You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Listen, please, and let me speak; You said, ‘I will question you, and you shall answer Me.’
“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You.
Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.”
Job thought he was successful until God showed him what he was without Him. Then Job changed his perspective and God blessed him double what he had before. His new position was one of humility and accessing God as His source, and his friends blessed him when he prayed for them. He entered the double cream phase!
Job 42:10-12 “And the LORD restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances before, came to him and ate food with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and each a ring of gold.
Now the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning;
Jesus
John 17 – Jesus was physically locked in the earth but spiritually positioned in the heavens. When the lame man asked Peter to give him something, Peter replied “silver and gold I have not, but what I have I give to you, rise up and walk.” In the original it actually says, “such as I have on my person and I can access at any given moment, take a miracle.” Peter didn’t have to go and try and stir the anointing up, he had it on him and could disperse of it at any given moment. Live in a realm of continuous flow.
V.8 – It speaks of the fervency of youth that can be on your ministry, irrespective of your age. There’s an anointing that you can step into where you bring both the fervency of youth and the wisdom of the aged into harmony. Where the young and the old respect your anointing. It’s a capacity of God that you can walk in.
v.13 – This speaks of decrees that are loaded with destiny, like when Jacob called his sons together to bless them before he died. All these benefits come from having your