It's Supernatural

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RODNEY:  Well first of all let me say what an honor it is to be here today to share with you. I want to read from Luke chapter four. This is the passage I was reading when the power of the Lord come into that meeting on that Tuesday morning in upstate New York. And I have got to share that many times Monday through Friday over the years since ‘89 so I love the subject of the anointing and the touch of God. “And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. He taught in the synagogues being glorified of all. He came to Nazareth where he had been brought up and as his custom was he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, stood up for to read and it was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. When he opened the book he found the place where it was written ‘the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me.’” Another word for the anointing would be empowered me. He has graced me. He has enabled me. He has equipped me. “To preach the gospel,” which is the good news, “to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, and to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.” Now the Amplified says in verse 19 “to proclaim the accepted and acceptable year of the Lord, the day when salvation and the free favors of God profusely abound.” So here’s Jesus announcing that the spirit of the Lord was upon Him but if you begin a study the ministry of Jesus you’ll see that He did do absolutely nothing until the time when He was really anointed and that happened when He came down to the river Jordan. The Bible says you know John the Baptist looked up and said “Behold the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world” and Jesus come down and He was baptized by John, come up out of the water. The Holy Spirit descended like a dove. Didn’t say He was a dove. Said He descended like a dove. So the Holy Spirit’s not a bird, He’s God. Amen! And so the Holy Spirit descended, the heavens opened. Didn’t say they closed up again. The heavens opened, the Holy Spirit descended like a dove and God spoke out of heaven and said this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, hear ye Him. And from that moment of time Jesus then went about and you could read about all these miracles that He did in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and the end of the book of John said all these miracles did Jesus do and all the others that if it were written down I do not suppose the books of the world would contain it. So now we could read through Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in a day but Matthew, Mark, Luke and John tells us just a small smidgeon of what really took place through the whole life and the ministry of Jesus. Three and a half years of hanging with Jesus it must have been miracles in the morning, miracles in the noontime, miracles in the evening, midnight miracles, I mean if I was there with him I probably wouldn’t have got much sleep. I would have kept one eye open on Him at all time just to see what He was going to do.