“How many times have we been guilty of making our own [anointing] oil? We can say much about ficticious anointing, things that seem to be like it, but are really more the effulgence of human personality. How many can distinguish between their own human personality and the holy anointing of God? There are so many ‘hotshots’ operating today who have the gift of the gab, and an executive ability, and know how to conduct and perform, but that is not the operation of the anointing at all. God will not force upon us the perfect if we are too satisfied with the substitute. When the man made thing is spurned, and we rest wholly upon what God gives, then we are candidates to receive it. Every time we turn the amplifiers up, or give our voices a little soulish boost, and add a little razzmatazz in order to bring an effect, or give an invitation that we know is calculated to play upon the emotional responses of our hearers, then that is false anointing. It is making something like it. It is not an absolute trust in the power of the anointing itself to obtain the consequences that God desires through His word.”
Art Katz, Apostolic Foundations
