And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; — Acts 5:12a

What a marvelous idea God had-–to equip mankind with His anointing and power.  God chose to take His own power and ability and put it on man so man could yield to and cooperate with it to live in total victory.  Here we see the apostles doing many signs, wonders, and miracles.  They did them through the anointing that was in their hands.  They believed in the anointing which God had given to them.  They believed that the Holy Spirit’s power was in and on their physical body. They knew their hands had been anointed by God and through them would flow His power!  You have the anointing in your hands, in your eyes, in your words, in and on your physical body.  Jesus used His hands to minister the power of God into people’s lives.  He knew He could transfer and release the power of God to others through His body.  People took aprons from Paul, full of his sweat, and people were healed by the anointing.  Peter and John looked at the crippled man at the gate and commanded him to rise up and he did.  Peter’s shadow was healing people because of the presence of the anointing on his life.  You too can become an outlet, a distribution center, for God’s power.  Your hands are anointed, your body is a weapon for God.  You have the ability – now put your faith in that ability.

...a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, — Joel 2:2b

This final army of God will be different from any other generation until now.  They will be a great people and a strong people.  They will not possess any more authority than any other generation, they will not have more of the Holy Ghost, they will not have a greater anointing than the others that preceded them.  They will just be taught and trained to use the weapons that they already have.  They will become efficient in the “all authority” Jesus gives to us in His name (Matt. 28:18; Luke 10:19) and will become skilled in the “ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you” (Acts 1:8).  When God poured out His Spirit on Pentecost, He poured upon all flesh the whole Holy Ghost.  We did not get part of the Holy Ghost or some of the anointing, but all the power heaven has to offer.  Since that time, the Church has continuously prepared for a move of God, prepared for an invasion of God, prepared to be used of God.  Some have prepared their whole Christian life only to die and never make any impact on spiritual things.  Now is not a time of preparation, but a time of cooperation with the authority and the Spirit God has already provided.  We do not need more power–-we need to learn to cooperate with the power we already have.  This army will be taught to win, not by systems or formulas, but by God Himself.

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:  — John 16:13a

The Spirit of God is in the guiding and leading business.  He is the only spiritual guide you need in this day and in this hour.  He is the Commander-in-Chief of this last day’s army, and is manifesting through those who have yielded their lives to Him.  He will lead you out of sorrow into joy, out of sickness into health, out of poverty into blessing, out of defeat into victory.  He does this through leading you into truth, all truth.  The only thing that keeps people bound, that keeps people from invading and attacking the kingdom of darkness, is error.  People are waiting for God to pour out His power, when He did so years ago; they are waiting for God to start revival in the land, when revival lives in them; they are waiting for God to defeat the devil and darkness, when He has already.  There is nothing that you lack in this day and hour in the spirit realm to keep you in hiding or on the shelf!  It is time to believe and invade, to receive and attack, to allow the Spirit to guide you into all truth.  As you allow Him to take you into the truth, you will find out that you have an anointing, you have all authority, and you possess the victory you have been trying to get!  You are what the Word says you are, you have what the Word says you have!  You have a right to be taught by God and to be led by His Holy Spirit.  Let Him take you into all freedom by allowing Him to guide you into all truth.

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

— 1 Corinthians 3:1

Just because you were born again does not mean that you are spiritual.  In order for you to live a life in the Spirit and be effective as a soldier, you must mature as a Christian.  Paul called the Corinthians carnal, and babies in the Spirit.  He could not get across to them the revelation they needed in order to cooperate with the Holy Ghost.  Spiritual growth is not an automatic experience.  It is not dependent on the number of years that you have been saved, but on what you did with those years.  Growing is a process, it is work; you have to nurture and exercise your spirit.  If your spirit man is not built up and strong, you will not function as an invading soldier who runs, climbs, and marches.  If your heart’s desire is to be successful in the Spirit, to see the miracles of God and the power of God manifest in your life, then you will have to take the time to train your spirit man to flow and cooperate with God.  Your growth comes by renewing your mind and thought-life to come in line with God’s mind and thought-life.  If you remain carnally minded, you will fail to flow with the plan and purpose of God.  You cannot be conformed to this world by a natural mind-set and still flow with the Spirit of God.  This is no time to be carnal and live as a mere powerless man (1 Cor. 3:3)!