The Word of God also talks about the office of the exhorter (Rom. 12:28)-should go with the office of the evangelist. I praise God for every ministry called of God and anointed with the Holy Spirit.Īctually, the healing ministry-the gifts o f healings (1 Cor. The laying on of hands belongs to all believers according to Mark 16:17,18.īut what was Brother Carter recognizing? He was recognizing that in the ministry some of us are anointed to do one thing and some are anointed to do another, and if we’ll excel where our anointing is, we’ll be a greater blessing to the Body of Christ. Yes, he could have prayed the prayer of faith-any one of us ministers standing there that night could have prayed the prayer of faith and laid hands on the child. My wife’s anointing is to lay hands on the sick.” When the woman left to look for Sister Carter, Brother Carter turned to us preachers and said, “Of course, I could have prayed in faith for her child, but if somebody’s anointed to minister that way, it’s a whole lot better.” Them began to speak in tongues the minute he touched them.
I’d seen him take 19 people into a side room that night, speak a few words to them, lay hands on them, and all 19 of Lays hands on gets healed, and nearly everybody I lay hands on gets baptized with the Holy Spirit.” (That’s a good combination, isn’t it?)
God doesn’t use me much along that line, but nearly everybody she He answered, “Go get my wife to lay hands on her. While we were talking, a woman came up to him, asking, “Brother Carter, would you pray for the healing of my child?” He was about 70 at the time, and he lived to be over 80. I never knew him personally, but I had an opportunity to hear him preach once in He was a great teacher and a great man of God. I remember something that Brother Howard Carter said. They do something just because somebody else is doing it. That’s the reason people get in trouble: They try to function in an office to which God didn’t call them. We try to do too much, we spread ourselves too thin, and the anointing’s not there to do it. Sometimes we ministers try to be a jack-of-all-trades and we become the master of none. God didn’t call us all to do the same thing. Then God will use you, and you will excel in your calling. You can stand in more than one office, but you need to find out where you are and what your office is and yield to that. Him do it with simplicity he that RULETH, with diligence he that SHEWETH MERCY, with cheerfulness. HELPS, that then GIFTS GOVERNMENTS, DIVERSITIES OF TONGUES.Ħ Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether PROPHECY, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith ħ Or MINISTRY, let us wait on our ministering: or he that TEACHETH, on teaching Ĩ Or he that EXHORTETH, on exhortation: he that GIVETH, let The anointing will come upon you to stand in these offices,Ģ8 And God hath set some in the church, first APOSTLES, secondarily The Word of God teaches that there are other ministries as well, such as helps, but the fivefold ministries seem to be theįirst Corinthians 12 and Romans 12 list the other ministry gifts. We saw in Section 1 that Jesus stood in the fivefold ministry offices listed in the New Testament: (1) apostle, (2) prophet, (3) In the Old Testament, only the prophet, priest, and king were anointed. With the anointing, you’re better able to teach, preach, and do more. It’s the same Holy Spirit, but the anointing to stand in a certain office is different from that anointing that abides within every believer. God has called and separated unto the ministry. But there also is an anointing that comes upon those whom The Word of God will work with or without an anointing.