The Unction

“And Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about Him spread through all the surrounding district.”
‭‭Luke‬ ‭4:14‬ ‭NASB‬‬

Preaching is not a man-made function designed to draw a crowd. It is an unction of The Spirit of God that sets a man on fire. This fiery unction is found at the junction of "My Will" and "Thy Will." Jesus prayed until His will was conformed to His Father's will.

Through believing prayer, The Spirit of Christ throws His shoulder onto the fulcrum of a preacher's faith, and releases God's power and authority. The fire of The Spirit's unction consumes broken men, until their flames reveal them as prophetic preachers of God's Word.

"Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men."
E.M. Bounds

NOTE TO SELF: You can't download prophetic preaching. Without the unction of The Holy Spirit, you either muzzle your preaching into an ethereal art form, or you demean it until it becomes an empty function. If you won't pray for unction, you will never experience it. Jesus was filled with The Spirit. He expects no less from those He has called to be His preachers. You are not a functionary. You are an "unctionary."

TALK LESS! PRAY MORE!