These 7 Signs Prove You're Marked by God - Billy Graham

My dear brothers and sisters, I ask you today, not with empty words, not with faint curiosity, but with a voice of thunder that echoes from the throne of heaven. Do you know who you are? Do you understand what it means to be anointed?

I'm not talking about a casual blessing. I'm not talking about the fleeting favor of man. I am speaking of divine appointment.

When the hand of Almighty God presses oil upon your spirit. When heaven itself recognizes your name. When demons tremble at your rising because the fire of God burns within you.

You are not ordinary. I said you are not ordinary. You are chosen, set apart, consecrated, a vessel of glory, a warrior of righteousness.

And when you are greatly anointed, you do not walk like the world walks. You do not speak like the world speaks. The anointing marks you.

It brands you with the authority of heaven and sends you into the dark places to bring the light of Christ. It will not let you rest in mediocrity. It will not let you compromise with sin.

It calls you to higher ground. The anointing is not just a feeling, not just a shout, not just a song on Sunday. It is a mantle.

It is a calling. It is divine fire that consumes the flesh, purifies the soul, and makes you dangerous to hell. And when you are greatly anointed, when the spirit of the living God rests upon you in power, there will be signs.

Oh yes, there will be undeniable evidence that heaven has touched your life and set you apart. Do not be deceived by the glitter of this world. Do not think the anointing is for the proud or the powerful.

It is not for the polished. It is not for the popular. It is for the surrendered.

It is for the broken. It is for the ones who have been crushed and yet keep praising. It is for those who said, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust him.

It is for the ones who have died to self, so Christ can rise within them. " The anointing comes not to make you famous, but to make you faithful. It doesn't crown your ego.

It crucifies it. The first sign that you are greatly anointed is this. You have endured unusual warfare.

Let me tell you something, child of God. The devil doesn't waste his weapons on people who are no threat. The fact that you have faced storms, betrayals, losses, sleepless nights, depression, confusion.

It's not because you are weak. It's because you are dangerous. The enemy saw your potential before you did.

He launched attacks before you even discovered your calling. Some of you have asked, "Why me, Lord? " And I'll tell you why.

Because you are marked. You are chosen. And the anointing on your life has stirred up hell.

But take heart. Because no attack, no affliction, no weapon formed against you can cancel what God has put on your life. You were forged in fire for a reason.

You survived what others died in. You came through what should have killed you. And the anointing grew in the darkness.

You may not have seen it, but while you were weeping, God was pouring oil. While you were bleeding, heaven was preparing your breakthrough. That pain was not punishment.

It was preparation. Because when God raises up a warrior, he allows the fire to come first. When the anointing is great, the battles are intense, but the victory is glorious.

The second sign you are greatly anointed is this. You carry a divine restlessness. You cannot settle for shallow living.

You cannot be comfortable in compromise. While others are satisfied, you are stirred. While others relax, something inside of you cries out, "There is more.

" That is not ambition. It is uncction. It is the fire of the Holy Ghost pulling you out of the familiar and into the supernatural.

You feel the tug in your spirit when you see injustice. You feel the weight of heaven when you pray. You can't go along with the crowd because your destiny is different.

You are a watchman, a carrier of God's heart. And there is a holy ache within you that will not let you be still until you obey the call. You are not crazy.

You are not broken. You are called. That unrest, that discomfort, it is God disrupting your comfort to birth your purpose.

It is his spirit refusing to let you sleep in a dying world. The anointing does not let you live an average life. It draws you into deeper waters.

It calls you to walk where others drown. The anointed ones are pioneers. They break barriers.

They offend tradition. They wake up spiritual realms. That's why you feel like you don't belong.

Because you were not made to blend in. You were made to stand out. Heaven has assigned you a task and the oil on your life is your confirmation.

The third sign, you are greatly anointed. You speak with a different authority. You don't have to quote 20 verses to sound spiritual.

When you speak, the atmosphere shifts. When you pray, the heavens open. When you declare, things change.

Why? Because your words are not just words. They are weapons.

The anointing gives weight to your voice. It is not about volume. It is about virtue.

Not charisma, but character. When you walk with God, the oil gives you access to a power that no man can explain. The authority comes not because of a title, but because you've been in the secret place.

Because you've wrestled with God in prayer and won. Because you fasted when no one saw. Because you've wept between the porch and the altar.

People may not understand you, but they'll listen. They may not agree with you, but they can't ignore you. That's what happens when you're anointed.

Your voice carries heaven's echo. Your presence disrupts darkness. You don't need a platform.

You are the platform. You don't need a mic. The Holy Ghost is your amplifier.

When you speak, angels listen, demons flee, and hearts awaken. This is not arrogance. This is the fruit of divine intimacy.

You've been with the king, and the oil proves it. Cuz anointing makes you different, and difference always attracts resistance. But let me tell you something that will shake the foundation of your fear.

The more heaven has poured on you, the more hell will push against you. But that push back is your confirmation. That pressure is your proof.

God doesn't anoint you for comfort. He anoints you for confrontation. Not to keep you in safety, but to thrust you into the very heart of the battle.

Because when you're anointed, you are not on the sidelines. You are in the middle of the war zone, clothed in spiritual armor and backed by the armies of heaven. The fourth sign you are greatly anointed is this.

You are misunderstood often deeply and painfully. your motives questioned, your words twisted, your loyalty tested. You may walk into a room with love in your heart and still be accused of pride.

You may weep for others in the secret place and they'll say, "You're cold. " You may speak truth in love and be called judgmental, but understand me now and understand me well. It is the anointing that stirs offense in those who are unrepentant.

The anointing exposes what is hidden. It reveals the hearts of men. It provokes both revival and rebellion.

You are misunderstood not because you are wrong, but because the oil on your life speaks louder than your words. People sense the weight of God in you and it either draws them to repentance or pushes them to resistance. You've walked through seasons of isolation not because you were abandoned, but because God was protecting what he placed inside of you.

You were not left out. You were set apart. You were not overlooked.

You were hidden until the appointed time. The world doesn't understand the mystery of consecration. You may have cried, "Why am I always the one left alone?

" But I declare to you now, it's because God has been whispering secrets to you that not everyone is qualified to hear. And in that place of isolation, the anointing matures. In that place of loneliness, the fire refineses.

God builds his generals in the dark before unveiling them in the light. If you're being misunderstood, rejoice. Heaven knows who you are.

The father sees the tears nobody else sees. He hears the groanings too deep for words. And he is not unjust.

He is preparing you for something greater. The fifth sign you are greatly anointed is that you hunger for righteousness, not recognition. You're not chasing applause.

You're chasing his approval. You're not looking for your name in lights. You're looking for your name in the book of life.

You don't want a stage. You want an altar. You don't want followers.

You want to follow something inside you burns for purity, not popularity, for holiness, not hype. You crave the presence of God more than the praise of people. This kind of hunger cannot be taught in a classroom.

It cannot be manufactured with emotion. It is born of fire. When you've seen his glory, when you've tasted his goodness, when you've felt the weight of his holiness, you begin to despise sin.

You begin to run from compromise. You begin to crave time in the secret place more than time in the spotlight. You begin to guard your heart like a fortress because you know that the oil is costly.

The anointing will make you grieve over things that once entertained you. It will make you reject shortcuts and reject popularity if it means forfeiting the presence. You will find yourself fasting when no one tells you to.

You will find yourself weeping in prayer, not because someone preached you happy, but because your spirit is deeply connected to the spirit of God. That's what the anointing does. It aligns you with the heartbeat of heaven.

And the more you grow in it, the more you understand that what others call extra is your normal. You're not too much. You're not too intense.

You're not too deep. You're simply anointed. And when you're anointed, the things of the spirit matter more than the opinions of man.

The sixth sign you are greatly anointed is this. Your presence agitates spirits even without saying a word. You walk into a room and people shift.

You open your mouth and the atmosphere changes not because of your personality but because of your power. The spirit of God in you disturbs what's unclean. The light in you exposes darkness.

The truth in you shakes deception and you're not even trying. It's not about trying. It's about carrying.

You carry glory. You carry fire. You carry breakthrough.

You carry answers. And wherever you go, the enemy knows it. This is why the enemy has tried to silence your voice.

This is why he sent betrayal. This is why the attacks felt so personal because the anointing on your life is public even when your process is private. And I speak this by the spirit.

Some of you have been asking, "Why do people act strange around me? Why do some avoid me? Why do I feel tension in places I haven't even spoken yet?

" It's because your spirit irritates their demon. It's because the Holy Ghost in you is exposing what others have tried to hide. You're not being dramatic.

You're being discerning. Your walk with God is not for show. It is for war.

And the oil you carry makes you a threat in the unseen realm. Don't you dare water yourself down to make others comfortable. Don't you dare shrink your fire to make others feel better.

Don't you dare apologize for being who God called you to be. The same power that raised Christ from the dead is alive in you. And when you step into a room, heaven backs you.

You are a mobile revival. You are a walking testimony. You are the answer to someone's cry.

You are the disruption to someone's bondage. The oil on your life is not a decoration. It is a weapon.

And now the seventh sign. Listen closely because this one will shake you. The seventh sign you are greatly anointed is that you are broken yet unshakable.

You have cried tears that nobody saw. You have carried burdens that nobody understood. You have walked through fires and floods and still your faith remains.

You've been attacked in your mind, crushed in your heart, betrayed by those you loved, overlooked by those you served. And yet you still believe. That, my friend, is not weakness.

That is evidence. Evidence of the oil. Evidence of God's hand on your life.

The anointing doesn't spare you from pain. It gives your pain purpose. The anointing doesn't keep you from battles.

It makes you win battles that should have destroyed you. You are not standing because you're strong. You are standing because you are anointed.

The devil tried everything. He tried depression. He tried discouragement.

He tried delay. He tried distractions. But here you are still lifting your hand.

Still praying, still worshiping, still standing on the promises of God. Don't you see? You are walking proof that the anointing sustains.

Some of you have survived such deep brokenness that others would have buried themselves in bitterness. But you you let the pain drive you deeper into God. You let the suffering bring you to surrender.

You turned your wounds into worship. And God took your broken pieces and made something beautiful. The crushing brought forth the oil.

The breaking brought forth the fragrance. Your scars have become signs of your survival. And your anointing has only increased.

You don't look like what you've been through, but the oil tells the story. The shine is not cosmetic. It's costly.

And for every tear, for every sleepless night, for every betrayal, for every dark season, you've received an impartation from heaven, the anointing on your life is proof that God still uses the broken, still chooses the rejected, still raises up the outcast and crowns them with glory. You see, beloved, the anointing is not given to those who desire a crown. It is given to those who are willing to carry the cross.

Many desire influence. Many want the mantle. Many shout for the spotlight.

But few are willing to bleed in Gethsemane. Few are willing to walk the road of surrender. Where your dreams die, where your reputation dies, where your will is laid down and buried under the weight of God's call.

The anointing is not glamorous. It is gruelling. It is not an accessory.

It is an assignment. And to walk in it, you must die to everything this world tells you to pursue. You cannot be greatly anointed and remain casually committed.

The anointing will demand everything. It will interrupt your plans. It will offend your flesh.

It will call you out of the boat and into the storm. It will stretch your faith to breaking and then ask for more. But all the glory that follows.

Oh, the oil that flows when a life is laid bare before God. The world may not understand it. Your family may not understand it.

Even the church may not always recognize it. But heaven knows. The throne of God sees.

And the spirit of the Lord rests heavily upon those who have said, "Not my will, but yours be done. " Let me tell you this. You cannot be greatly anointed and not feel the weight of divine urgency.

You wake up in the middle of the night burdened for souls. You weep for people you've never met. You pray for nations you've never visited.

There is a fire in your bones that won't let you rest. There is a stirring in your spirit that cannot be silenced. You are not content with comfort.

You are not satisfied with shallow religion. You are dangerous to the kingdom of darkness because you are possessed. Not by fear, not by pride, but by the purpose of God.

And when you're anointed, let me tell you, hell recognizes you. There are people walking around who are unknown on earth, but famous in the spirit realm. Demons tremble when they pray.

Atmospheres shift when they speak because their voice is not just noise. It is authority. Their words carry the weight of heaven because they have been forged in the secret place.

If you want that kind of anointing, don't look to man. Don't look to platforms. Look to the altar.

Look to the feet of Jesus. There in the stillness, in the silence, in the sacrifice, you will find it. You cannot fake the anointing.

You can fake charisma. You can fake talent. You can even fake knowledge.

But you cannot fake the fire. When someone has been in the presence of the most high, you can tell. They carry something you can't explain.

Something that breaks chains when they walk in the room. Something that speaks to dry bones and they come alive. Something that interrupts the ordinary and makes it holy.

You don't need a title to be anointed. You don't need a microphone. You don't need man's permission.

Heaven has already approved you. You have been called for such a time as this. The oil on your life is not an accident.

It's a calling. It's a mandate. And when God anoints you, he equipss you.

He surrounds you, he preserves you. The same God who called David from the field is calling you from obscurity. The same God who raised Esther from an orphan to a queen is raising you from rejection.

And listen closely. When you are greatly anointed, you will not live a normal life. You will not fit into the mold.

You will not blend into the crowd. You were never meant to. The anointing will mark you.

It will set you apart. People will say you've changed. And you have because when God places his hand on you, your desires change, your appetite changes.

You don't want what you used to want. You don't crave what you used to crave. You have tasted something eternal and everything else feels empty.

When you are greatly anointed, you begin to see differently. You don't look at people through eyes of judgment, but through the lens of eternity. You don't react from offense.

You respond from the spirit. You start hearing things others miss. You start discerning things others ignore.

Your ears are tuned not to gossip, but to God. Your heart beats not for attention but for assignment. And though you walk with humility, there is a roar in your spirit.

A lion's roar. Because you know that your life is not your own. You have been bought with a price.

And the anointing is the evidence of that purchase. God did not anoint you to be popular. He anointed you to be powerful.

He anointed you to break chains, to cast out devils, to preach good news to the poor, to proclaim freedom to the captives, to open the eyes of the blind. This is not a fairy tale. This is not a religion of comfort and self-help.

This is warfare. This is heaven invading earth through your surrendered vessel. And that's why the anointing costs so much because it does so much.

It's not cheap. It's not for show. It's not for sale.

It is sacred. It is divine. It is holy.

Some of you have been questioning your calling. You've been doubting your anointing. But let me remind you, if God put his hand on you, no man can take it off.

If God set you apart, no label can define you. If God poured his spirit upon you, no force in hell can stop you. You may not have the credentials.

You may not have the connections, but you have the oil. And the oil is enough. The oil opens doors.

The oil breaks barriers. The oil makes room for you in places your name never could. Do you want to know why some things in your life couldn't kill you?

Why the storm didn't drown you? Why the fire didn't consume you? It's because you are carrying something too valuable to be destroyed.

You are housing something eternal. God preserved you, protected you, sustained you because you are anointed. You thought it was just grace and it is.

But it's also a mantle. You are still standing because you are still needed. You are still breathing because your assignment is still unfolding.

You are still praying because the spirit is still burning inside you. There's a remnant rising, a generation of anointed ones who are not moved by applause or discouraged by silence. They are not after platforms.

They are after presence. They are not trying to fit in. They are trying to press in.

And I believe you are one of them. I believe God is stirring you even now. I believe the fire in your bones is about to become an inferno.

I believe you are about to step into a season where the oil flows like never before. And I say this to you with all the authority heaven allows. Stir up the gift of God within you.

Don't wait for someone to confirm what God has already declared. Don't wait for man to recognize what heaven has already released. The anointing is active.

The anointing is alive. You don't need to strive for it. You need to yield to it.

Submit your will. Surrender your plan. die to your flesh and let the Holy Spirit do what only he can do.

You may be a mother raising children with tears in your eyes and warfare in your house. You are anointed. You may be a young man surrounded by temptation but choosing purity.

You are anointed. You may be a preacher, nobody knows yet, speaking to empty chairs. You are anointed.

You may be a businessman funding the kingdom behind the scenes. You are anointed. You may be a teenager with a Bible in your backpack and a fire in your belly.

You are anointed. Don't you dare underestimate what God has placed inside of you. There is more to write.

Let me know if you want me to continue this firefilled message. The well hasn't run dry. The spirit is still speaking.

And I say to you now as one who has felt the urgency of eternity stir within my soul. Do not grow weary in welloing. For when you are greatly anointed, the attacks will intensify.

The devil does not attack empty vessels. He goes after those carrying oil. He doesn't waste arrows on those walking in the flesh.

He wages war on those walking in the spirit. And if you've been under pressure, if the weight has increased, if the opposition has grown stronger, it is not because you are losing ground. It is because you are taking ground.

It is because you are dangerous to the kingdom of darkness. You are shifting things in the spirit realm and the enemy is afraid. But fear not, for no weapon formed against you shall prosper.

You were anointed for adversity. You were prepared for the battle. You were born for such a time as this.

Don't mistake pressure for punishment. God isn't breaking you down. He's breaking you open.

Oil doesn't flow until the olive is crushed. Glory doesn't rise until the flesh is surrendered. And power doesn't pour out until pride is laid to rest.

You are not being buried. You are being planted. And what God plants, he waters.

What he waters, he grows. And what he grows, he uses to shake the world. You are not small in the eyes of God.

The enemy may try to diminish you, to discredit you, to distract you. But the one who called you is greater. His power is without limit.

His word is without flaw. His presence is without boundary. And he has chosen to dwell in you.

Not in a temple made with hands, not behind a veil of stone, but within your heart. That means you are a walking vessel of divine presence. That means you are a carrier of kingdom power.

That means when you walk into darkness, light walks in with you. The anointing on your life demands responsibility. You cannot live like everyone else.

You cannot indulge in what the world finds harmless. You cannot play games with holiness. You have been set apart.

You have been marked. And when God marks you, he does not ask for your opinion. He asks for your obedience.

This is not a season to compromise. This is not a time to flirt with sin. This is the hour to rise, to live consecrated, to walk boldly, to stand righteously, and to declare without apology.

I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation. You don't need to explain your fire to those who are content with ashes. You don't need to justify your tears to those who've never wept in the presence of God.

You don't need to explain why you've changed, why you've surrendered, why you've let go of the old and reached for the new. They didn't see what God showed you in the secret place. They didn't hear what he whispered into your spirit.

They didn't feel what you felt when he broke your heart for the lost. When he gave you a burden that no sleep could lift. The anointing will isolate you before it elevates you.

God will take you through seasons where no one claps, no one calls, no one sees the tears on your pillow. But he sees. He hears.

He is not distant. He is developing you. For you see, the anointing isn't about performance.

It's about preparation. Before David was ever crowned king, he learned to worship in the wilderness. Before Joseph ever stood in Pharaoh's court, he stood in a prison cell.

Before Jesus ever performed a miracle, he fasted in the desert and faced the devil face to face. The preparation is proof of the promise. And when you're greatly anointed, God will hide you before he reveals you.

He will protect what he is perfecting. He will keep you close so you don't get corrupted. He will test your motives, purify your intentions, and refine your character.

Because what he's preparing you for is too big to be built on ego. Too weighty to be carried by talent alone. You need substance, not style.

You need depth, not decoration. You need to be rooted in the word, anchored in prayer, and consumed with his presence. The world is desperate for the real.

They've had enough entertainment. They've seen enough performance. They don't need another motivational speech.

They need a move of God. And that move will not come through polished preachers with empty words. It will come through anointed men and women whose knees are calloused from prayer, whose hearts burn for the lost, whose eyes have seen the King of glory, and whose mouths carry fire, not flattery.

And I believe you are among them. Yes, you who you have been overlooked, you who have been rejected, you who've battled silently, who've wared privately, who prayed with tears no one saw, you are not forgotten, you are not cast aside. God has seen it all.

And he is saying,"I have prepared you in the shadows for what I am about to do in the light. Do not despise the crushing, for in it comes the oil. Do not resent the isolation, for in it comes intimacy.

Do not run from the fire, for in it comes refinement. " The furnace you've endured is producing a purity this generation needs. And when you come out of the fire, you won't even smell like smoke, but you'll carry the scent of heaven.

The anointing will call you to love your enemies, to pray for those who curse you, to bless those who mock you. That's when you know the oil is flowing. Not when you preach eloquently, but when you forgive radically.

Not when you sing powerfully, but when you serve humbly. Not when you stand on a stage, but when you kneel before your Savior. The anointing is not about fame.

It's about faithfulness. It's not about gifts. It's about fruit.

And the fruit of the spirit will always testify to the authenticity of the anointing. Let this be a holy reminder. You are not called to conform.

You are called to confront. Not with arrogance, but with authority. Not in hate, but in holiness.

You are here to tear down strongholds, not to tiptoe around them. You are here to shine light into darkness, not to dim your flame to fit in. And if they laugh, let them laugh.

If they walk away, let them walk. But never forget, you walk with God. And when you walk with God, you walk in power.

There is something stirring in the heavens right now. The winds are shifting. The spirit is moving.

And God is looking not for the popular, not for the perfect, but for the pure in heart. For the ones who will say yes when it costs everything. For the ones who don't need a stage to preach, don't need a platform to praise.

For the ones who would rather be in the prayer closet than in the spotlight. For the ones who burn not for attention but for revival. And you, child of God, you are that one.

And when the hand of God rests upon your life, you will notice it not just in the mountaintops but in the valleys. You'll sense it not only in the blessings, but in the brokenness. For God doesn't just anoint you for success.

He anoints you to endure. The anointing is what sustains you when the applause stops. It's what keeps you standing when the storm rages.

It's what allows you to keep loving when they hate you. To keep giving when you're empty, to keep believing when everything says it's over. The anointing is your survival.

It's heaven's breath in your lungs when the world tries to choke you out. And make no mistake, beloved, the anointing doesn't make life easier. It makes you stronger.

It doesn't remove the warfare. It makes you victorious in it. For greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

The anointing will take you through fire and not let you burn. It will take you through floods and not let you drown. It will carry you across the battlefield with scars, yes, but not with surrender.

Because you don't carry the anointing. The anointing carries you. It carries your purpose.

It carries your destiny. It carries your yes to God through every no from man. And some of you need to hear this clearly.

Your anointing is not tied to public affirmation. You don't need a crowd to validate what God has deposited in you. The wilderness does not negate your calling.

It refineses it. John the Baptist thundered out in the desert far from temple halls and religious prestige. And the whole nation came to hear him.

Why? Because the anointing draws people to the word, not to the vessel. The anointing is magnetic because it's divine.

You don't need to promote yourself when God has already anointed you. You don't need to force doors open when the anointing is your key. Do you know why people are drawn to you but don't understand you?

It's because the oil on your life confuses the carnal mind. They see your smile but don't know the sorrow you've walked through. They see the authority but don't recognize the affliction that birthed it.

They see the wisdom but not the weeping. They see the light, but not the crushing that released it. The anointing on your life was not formed in comfort.

It was formed in conflict. And the oil didn't come cheap. And here's a truth few dare to preach.

The greater the anointing, the greater the cost. You want to carry glory, then you must lay down pride. You want to carry power, then you must die to self.

You want to see God move through your life, then you must first let him move through your soul. There is no shortcut to intimacy with God. You must walk through the narrow path, the hard path, the holy path.

You must wrestle like Jacob, cry out like Hannah, believe like Abraham, suffer like Job, worship like David, and lay everything down like Paul. For the truly anointed, there is no going back. Once you've tasted the fire, the world will never satisfy you again.

Once you've stood in the glory, applause will seem empty. Once you've heard his voice, every other sound becomes noise. That's why the anointed walk differently.

That's why they speak with weight, not with volume. That's why they carry peace in chaos and light in shadows. The anointing is not something you wear like a garment.

It's something you become through surrender. It's etched into your being. It flows through your words, your prayers, your worship, your silence.

And don't be surprised, my friend, when the enemy tries to distract you with imitation. The devil is a master of counterfeit. He will send people who look anointed but lack the oil.

He will dress up manipulation as ministry, charisma as calling, entertainment as evangelism. But you, child of God, must be discerning. Do not chase the flesh, chase the fire.

Do not follow the crowd. Do not bow to culture. Bow to Christ.

The anointing will teach you to recognize what is real and what is merely loud. There are voices rising in this generation who have been hidden not because they were forgotten but because they were preserved and you may be one of them. Heaven has been waiting for your obedience.

The earth has been groaning for the manifestation of the sons and daughters of God. The time is now. This is the hour.

You are not too broken. You are not too late. You are not too flawed.

The same God who anointed a shepherd boy to slay a giant. Who anointed a teenage girl to birth the Savior, who anointed a fisherman to preach to thousands, is the same God who has his eye on you. So don't run from the call.

Don't silence the fire. Don't hide your gift to keep others comfortable. The oil in your life wasn't given for you to blend in.

It was given so you could stand out. Not for your glory, but for his. You were called to be a light in the darkness, a voice in the silence, a beacon for the lost, and a trumpet of truth.

You were not saved to sit in the shadows. You were saved to shake the nations. There is a sound coming from your spirit, a roar rising from your soul, a word stirring in your mouth.

And the world is waiting to hear it. But first, you must kneel. You must go back to the altar.

You must return to the secret place where it all began. That sacred ground where tears water the soil of purpose. Where worship breaks the chains of pride.

Where the Holy Spirit speaks louder than your fear. It is in that place, beloved, where God pours out the oil aresh. It is there, he reminds you, you are mine.

I have chosen you, and I will go with you. Then lift your eyes, church, and behold the hour in which we live. This is not a time for compromise.

This is not a season for silence. This is the moment where the anointed must arise. Not with arrogance but with authority.

Not with pride but with power. Not with fear but with fire. God is not looking for polished vessels.

He's looking for poured out ones. He's not calling the qualified. He qualifies the called.

And the anointing is the seal of heaven upon your life, marking you for a mission greater than comfort and convenience. You were not chosen to merely survive. You were anointed to advance.

To tread upon serpents, to walk through lion's dens and come out with praise, to speak in the face of injustice, to love when hate surrounds, to pray when others panic, to worship in the waiting. That anointing on your life is not seasonal. It's eternal.

It doesn't evaporate when trials come. It doesn't vanish in obscurity. It grows deeper, richer, and more potent the more you walk with God through the wilderness.

Some of you have been asking, "Why the delay? Why the isolation? Why the struggle?

" And I tell you, because you are being prepared. You are being pruned, refined, and tested. not to destroy you, but to increase the oil.

The greater the weight of glory you are called to carry, the deeper the crushing must be. And only those who have walked through the fire without losing their worship can carry a fire that will never go out. Don't resent the pressing.

It is the process by which heaven produces power. The wine cannot flow without the crushing of the grape. The fragrance cannot be released until the alabaster box is broken.

And hear me now. When the anointing is upon you, the enemy recognizes it before others do. That's why the warfare has been so intense.

That's why the attacks have felt so personal. That's why you've felt misunderstood, misjudged, even betrayed by those closest to you. Because the enemy sees what's on your life even if others don't.

He hears the destiny in your voice. He sees the mantle on your shoulder and he fears it. He knows that once you truly realize who you are and whose you are, you become unstoppable.

You become dangerous to darkness. You become a weapon in the hand of the Almighty. But the anointing will not allow you to stay offended.

It will not permit you to camp in bitterness. The oil demands purity. It demands surrender.

It demands that you forgive those who pierced you, that you bless those who mocked you, that you press forward when your heart says quit. The anointing constrains you. It disciplines you.

It pulls you back from foolishness and pushes you into righteousness. You cannot live like the world and carry heaven's oil. You cannot dance with compromise and walk in divine power.

The anointing requires a clean heart, a pure spirit, a life laid low at the foot of the cross. And let me tell you something profound. The anointing will separate you before it elevates you.

You will lose friends. You will walk alone. You will be passed over.

But you will gain the presence of God in ways others cannot understand. You will see into realms where angels tread. You will walk in rooms and shift atmospheres.

You will speak a word and demons will flee. You will pray and healing will manifest. Not because you are special, but because God has marked you.

The oil speaks when you are silent. It defends when you are attacked. It opens doors no man can shut and shuts doors no man can open.

Do not chase platforms. Chase his presence. Do not strive for stages.

Strive for submission. The anointing doesn't make you famous. It makes you faithful.

It doesn't lead to thrones. It leads to altars. You must decrease so that he may increase.

And when the world tries to seduce you with applause, remember that Jesus was cheered on Sunday and crucified by Friday. Don't be intoxicated by the approval of man. The same people who praise you today may abandon you tomorrow.

But if you walk in the anointing, heaven's applause will carry you further than the accolades of earth ever could. Let this truth grip your soul. When you are truly anointed, you become God's vessel in the earth.

Not a puppet, not a performer, but a prophetic voice, a burning lamp, a holy instrument. Your words will not just encourage, they will pierce. Your prayers will not just comfort, they will shake kingdoms.

Your worship will not just be sweet, it will be violent against the enemy. Because the anointing doesn't coddle, it conquers. It doesn't soothe sin, it slays it.

It doesn't entertain darkness, it exposes it. And when the oil flows, it leaves no room for lukewarm living. I declare to you right now, this is the hour for the anointed to arise, to speak boldly, to love radically, to live righteously, to shine unapologetically.

The world doesn't need more entertainers. It needs intercessors. It doesn't need more influencers.

It needs revival carriers. It doesn't need more noise. It needs voices that thunder with the authority of God.

You are not here by accident. You are here by divine assignment. The anointing on your life is the answer to someone's cry.

It is the light in someone's darkness. It is the hope in someone's despair. Don't hide it.

Don't bury it. Don't dilute it. Rise, anointed one.

Stand firm. Pray harder. Speak truth.

Burn brighter. Love deeper. You have been called for such a time as this.

The kingdom of God is not built by celebrities. It is built by the surrendered, the faithful, the obedient, the set apart. And the oil flows where there is yieldedness, where there is hunger, where there is humility.

The heavens are searching for hearts that say, "Not my will, but thine be done. " So now I ask you, what will you do with the oil? What will you do with the calling that heaven has pressed upon your soul?

Will you bury it in fear? Or will you walk boldly into the fire knowing that the one who called you is faithful to sustain you? Will you shrink back when the crowd turns cold?

Or will you stand firm even if it means standing alone? The time for hesitation is over. The hour of playing church is done.

The world is not looking for echoes. It's longing for a voice. And that voice may be yours.

That voice may be trembling, may be untrained, may be weary. But if it is anointed, it will break chains. It will ignite hearts.

It will awaken the dead things around you and call them back to life. You don't need a title. You don't need applause.

You don't need to be known by man to be used by God. You just need to say, "Here I am, Lord. Use me.

Crush me if you must, but don't pass me by. Burn away what is not of you. Fill me with what is holy.

Pour your oil until every word I speak, every step I take and every breath I breathe is saturated with the fragrance of heaven. If you felt forgotten, overlooked, or unworthy, let me remind you, David was anointed in the fields before he was crowned in the palace. Esther was hidden before she was revealed.

Joseph was locked in prison before he stood in power. Your obscurity does not cancel your anointing. In fact, it proves it.

God often hides what he has greatly anointed because he knows hell is watching. So rise not because you feel strong but because he is strong in you. Rise not in pride but in purpose.

Rise with tears in your eyes and fire in your bones. and let the world see what happens when a surrendered soul carries the oil of God. Go now, anointed one, pray like you've never prayed.

Love like you've never loved. Walk with the authority of heaven behind you and the spirit of God within you. The earth groans for the revealing of the sons and daughters of God.

And that means you. Step into the battlefield with confidence. Speak life into the dry places.

And when you don't know what to do, worship. When you're weary, worship. When you're unsure, worship.

Because worship keeps the oil flowing. And when the road gets rough, and it will. When the nights are long and the battles are fierce, remember this.

The same God who anointed you will sustain you. The same God who called you will carry you. The same God who crushed you, will crown you.

Now go, go and be the light in the darkness. Go and be the fire on the altar. Go and be the one who changes the atmosphere simply by believing.

You are not ordinary. You are not forgotten. You are not weak.

You are anointed. And the anointing will make the impossible. Let the oil speak.

Let your life preach. And let the fire of God in you never go out.