Moving in the Apostolic

End-Times Commission, End-Times Anointing

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always familiar with this verse of Scripture. I heard it preached and quoted often in our church. However, the emphasis was usually on the word "power." We were taught that we needed this power to be effective witnesses. Recently, the Lord led me to preach on this verse. I assumed that every believer knew it because I had heard it so much as a young man. But this time, as I prepared to preach on it, the Lord impressed me to emphasize the phrase "uttermost part of the earth." The Lord told me that the blessing of Pentecost went beyond what most Spirit-filled believers experience today. The Pentecostal blessing is, in fact, an anointing to touch the world. It is larger than our local church. It is larger than our city or nation. We cannot contain it or limit it to these areas alone. The outpouring at Azusa Street at the beginning of the twentieth century was the beginning of the release of an end times anointing for the world. The Lord told me to tell His people that we are not walking in the fullness of this anointing until we are touching the uttermost parts of the earth. If we are just touching a few in our city or region, we are only walking in a part of the power available to us. The power of the Holy Spirit is given to us to touch nations. We need to prepare believers with a vision for the world. The Lord is now raising up international churches with an apostolic anointing to train and release people in the fullness of the Holy Spirit's power. An International Anointing This end-times commission will only be accomplished with an international anointing. Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost was an international setting: Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Look, are not all these who speak Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each in our own language in which we were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene, visitors