Anointing

Most of us are familiar with the fact that the church of believers in Christ is called to be as He is. He is our King, and our High Priest. We also are to be kings and priests. Peter described it this way:
"But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation. His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light..."  1 Pet. 2:9
Jesus says in Revelation, that He has made us "kings and priests unto our God" (Rev. 1:6, 5:10). The Hebrew word for "priest" is kohan, which means "priest, principal officer, chief ruler, prince, priest-king". Priesthood then, by meaning, incorporates a kingly office as well.
The priest is touched and sprinkled with the blood of the sacrifice, and with the holy anointing oil in order to be consecrated, or set apart for his office (Ex. 29:20-21, Lev. 8:30). The anointing oil was first "poured" over Aaron's head (Ex. 29:7). The word "pour" in Hebrew is yatsak, meaning pour, flow, overflow, pouring a molten metal into a cast, to cast metal. It was poured out over Aaron as if the LORD was filling a mold with molten material.
We believers in Christ have also been touched and sprinkled with His blood, from the sacrifice He provided for us, and most of us believe that we have been anointed in our lives as well. This is what I would like to look at: The Anointing.
We highly value the anointing that God has placed in our lives. However, according to scripture, our anointing that is so precious to us, is not really all that it could be, because it is missing a vital ingredient. While we teach of this vital ingredient, in our hearts it remains far from us. That vital, but missing ingredient is unity.
Paul described a mature church, under the equipping by apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, as all coming "to the unity of faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" (Eph. 4:12). That's a great deal to accomplish. We'll see more about the measure and the stature later, but at least we can work on the first step, which is unity of the faith. One large stumbling block to that unity is the fact that we value our individual importance too much to lose any of that importance in order to submit to a unity. In order to form a unity, we have to give up a little of "I" and "me", to become an "us". It is similar to what is necessary in order to achieve unity in marriage. In another example, an eye is wonderfully and miraculously important. However, the undeniable greatness of the eye, becomes absorbed into an even greater glory-the whole, complete body. In fact, the eye cannot fulfill its great purpose until it loses some of its separate identity to the functioning whole.
In the scripture from Ephesians, Paul joins the thought of the unity of the faith with the "fullness of Christ". Jesus, Himself, came into His own fullness by giving up part of His former identity:
"Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore, God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name..."  Phil. 2:5-9
Jesus gave up the form and position of God, with God, to become born of man, and dying man at that. He had no reason to do this except in obedience to the salvation plan of God. As a result of this obedience, God exalted Him to something even greater, because Jesus' name has been made greater than every name. David said it this way to God:
"You have magnified Your word above all Your name."  Ps. 138:2
Jesus is that word that was with God and was God (Jn. 1:1).
If we think "our" anointing is great now, we ain't seen nothing yet! Paul tells us that when we achieve the unity of the faith of Christ ordained by the Father, including unity with saved and reconciled Israel, this resulting unity will be "life from the dead" (Rom. 11:15).
David, in the Psalms gives us this beautiful illustration of the anointing that comes from unity:
"Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren (resemblance, kindred, like, each to the other) to dwell together in unity (to become one)!
It is like the precious (beautiful, valuable, gladness) oil (to shine) upon the head,
Running down (sent down, abundantly, "go down to the spring to drink") on the beard,
The beard of Aaron ("light bringer"),
Running down on the edge (extremity, even scattered pieces in corners) of his garments (stature, size, measure).
It is like the dew (light rain, cover, covering, overshadow) of Hermon (sanctuary, consecrate),
Descending upon the mountains of Zion;
And there the LORD commanded the blessing (source of blessing, prosperity, gift, treaty of peace, kneel, adore)-
Life (revived life even from sickness, quickened life, continuing life) forevermore."   Ps. 133

Those oil-soaked priestly garments, created within the unity of the brethren, reflect a measure and stature. And the oil reaches to the outermost parts and pieces of the Body. It is no wonder that the devil, and our own flesh, fight the idea of the unity of the brethren so much. However, the Lord will overcome both to bring forth this unity anointing.

Our Father has created an abundant anointing found in the unity of the brethren.

"Behold How Good"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOQ9FM5gtjU

"Fresh Outpouring"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxujjn-Oqio