ELOQUENCE VS THE ANOINTING

This paper therefore, intends to examine critically about the essence of the biblical anointing historically; the implications of the anointing in one's life, the methods, purposes and importance of the anointing, and other basic issues which are inherent with it.

2015

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Book Review #3, 2017

This book review seeks to examine Dr. Stephen F. Olford senior lecturer of The Institute for Biblical Preaching and Dr. David L. Olford director of studies at the Stephen Olford Center for Biblical Preaching’s attempt to reflect and equip the real felt needs of preachers and ministry today in a single volume. They argue that true revival will only come when there is a return to the preaching and obeying of God’s inerrant Word. The authors are very much committed to biblical revelation, biblical exposition, and biblical proclamation.

Oguaa Journal of Religion and Human Values, 2019

Anointing is a popular concept in most Pentecostal Churches in Nigeria today. It is common to hear sayings such as “falling under anointing”, “transfer of anointing”, “anointing service”, “anointing for favour”, “anointing for sickness”, “anointing for breakthrough”, and many more. There is a wide spread confusion within the Pentecostal movements regarding anointing. There is no common accepted meaning. There is no uniformity in understanding how one may obtain whatever the anointing is, there is even a great disagreement about who really is anointed. The main reason for this misunderstanding in most cases is because everyone is holding to a different interpretation of the Bible. The study examines the concept of anointing from the Biblical perspective in the context of the practice of anointing in contemporary Pentecostal churches in Nigeria. The study adopted the contextual and narrative analytical method to investigate the historical and contemporary contexts of the use of anoint...

Several key words in v10 "Received a gift", "Use it to serve", "Good Stewards", "Varied grace". V10 A good steward will EMPLOY his gift (put it to use in serving one another) you can't fully serve one another without EMPLOYING the manifold grace of God in your life. v11 the word ability means "Force, power, strength". We minister the gift through the divine ability that the spirit of God supplies us with. When you speak you should be so full of the grace of God that you are speaking as an "Oracle" Ephesians 3:7 confirms this fact by saying "I was made (formed and fasioned) a minister according to the gift of the grace (divine ability) of God given unto me, by the effectual (Power that has an effect) working of HIS POWER (dunamis, miracle working power able to reproduce) His working and power in us brings forth his divine ability through us.

C o n j u r e C o d e x A compendium o f invocation, evocation and conjuration. With text by, 2011

One of the most amazing aspects of writing is the written word’s ability to span time and space. A word written carefully in the spring may be enjoyed by a reader the next fall; or even in the season that is a century distant. One mind, quietly crafting thoughts into words may, under the best of circumstances, reach across the temporal and geographical chasm to intimately interact with another mind. When it works, there is nothing more magical than writing. This is especially true if the author’s subject is a sacred one. To write about Jesus’ love for each of us, and about his call that strives to reach the heart and soul of every single person on earth, and to know that through the act of writing about the mystery and majesty of the Lord, both author and reader become living participants in the God’s own unfolding plan. This is what can make writing a calling, a vocation, and a ministry.

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, 2015

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 1988

Therapeutic eficacy in religious healing is lypically analyzed by extrapolating from ritual procedure to expected gect, without specifying conditions for success or failure in terms of the concrete experience of participants. Taking such experiential data as primary in therapeutic process should allow for definition of minimal conditions of therapeutic e$ ficacy, including incremental change and inconclusive results. Two cases of Catholic Pentecostal ritual healing are discussed, with emphasis on participants' reports of therapeutic process. The analytic focus includes the orientation of participants within the healing system, their experience of the sacred, the negotiation of possibilities, and the actualization of change. Alongside the anthropological question of how meaning shapes the illness experience, I pose the clinical question: how may religious encounters influence an illness career? Consideration of these questions suggests that detailed experiential analysis of therapeutic process can lead to a more balanced and pragmatic conceptualization of healing than is available in studies that emphasize either ritual or clinical dimensions of healing. he problem of eficacy appears repeatedly at the center of debate about religious healing practices. Although other reviewers have chosen to treat the