The dictionary defines “unction” as the act of anointing as a rite of consecration or healing. Something used for anointing. Generally, we regard unction as the Holy Spirit’s anointing. We equate unction with a power that lifts words and sends them soaring. It is the message that is anointed by God as much as the messenger.
An unction from the Holy Spirit is a knowing in your Spirit. To guide and protect you, to comfort and bring you peace.
Ours born-again spirits are renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him (Col. 3:10). 1Corinthians 2:16 says “But we have the mind of Christ,” and 1 John 2:20 says “But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.” These scriptures show us that our spirit man is complete in Jesus (Col. 2:10). We know all things.
But even though that is true in your spirit, this knowledge will not profit your physical and soulish parts until you release it by renewing your mind. Romans 12:2 says, “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.”
When the knowledge of God’s Word enters our soulish minds through hearing or studying it, our spirits bear witness with the truth and impart wisdom, which is the ability to apply knowledge. This then becomes revelation knowledge, not just facts about God, but the knowledge of God which has been divinely quickened in us by God through our born-again spirits.
How do we receive the Word of God being made alive and powerful in our lives as Hebrews 4:12 talks about? One important way is by meditating on God’s Word. Too many times, we get so hungry to learn God’s Word that we don’t take sufficient time to let the mind of Christ in our spirit man give us a full disclosure of the power that is in those words.
You can have this revelation knowledge because God has already given you the “mind of Christ” (1 Cor. 2:16).
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