READ: Luke 10:1-20
Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
Luke 10:20
You must quickly learn not to be impressed with the wrong things. The apostles were novices. They were impressed about the wrong things. Many ministers are impressed by the wrong things. I remember a crusade we had. There were many pastors at the leaders’ conference the next day. I sensed that many of the pastors were impressed with our convoy of trucks and cars. I also sensed that they were impressed by the amount of money we must have spent to come there.
As I preached, they laughingly confirmed that they had been thinking about how much money we must have as a ministry. I told them to focus on the anointing. They should be impressed with the power of God and the grace of God that had made it possible for us to travel from our country to come to their town to preach. I wanted them to be impressed with the books that had been written and the revelations that were available to them through these books. I wanted them to be impressed with the revelation on how to build a mega church and how to catch the anointing.
Instead of being impressed with the power of God and the miracles, their eyes were on the trucks and the money. Jesus’ disciples were equally impressed with the wrong things. A novice must grow to become impressed with truly valuable things.
If you are impressed with the anointing and the power of God, you will pay the price to get it. If you are impressed with money, you will think of how to get money rather than how to get the anointing. Let the Holy Spirit draw you to the anointing, to the power and to the presence of God. These are invaluable things that have no equal.