The prophet's handbook

to use their authority to release their blessings. Daniel’s intercession in chapters 9 and 10 shows this practice in action. Praying prophets are a most valuable tool in public ministry. Without prophetic prayer, the institution of prophecy is only marginally effective. Read about pastors’ prayer lives in Acts 2. The Prophecy Anointing It might be helpful to church prophets and their pastors to know about the prophecy anointing as it streams from the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The name of the anointing that empowers Christ’s ministers for their service to the Lord is chrio. As an aspect of the Lord’s many anointings, this one is distinct in that it may also be called the ministry power anointing. Chrio describes the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that specifically rests on His officers and ministers in active service. Chrio furnishes what is needed to perform the duties and exploits of one’s call. According to Strong’s Concordance, the word chrio is used four times in the New Testament. Only one of those times is it applied outside of Christ, which is not to say that it does not apply to human ministers, because that is inaccurate. What it is to say, though, is that the chrio anointing specifically empowers divine service. The single time the word chrio is used for anointing for human ministers is in 2 Corinthians 1:21 in relation to the apostles. What makes it relevant to us today, however, is that Jesus was sent to earth as the first Minister of the New Covenant. He came as the Prophet who was to come and the Great Apostle. All this states that the chrio anointing to minister is more than the chrisma all believers get. It goes along with Acts 1:8, where the Lord instructs His followers to remain in Jerusalem until they are endued with power from on high in Luke 24:49. Otherwise, it is only used in the New Testament one other time. Without chrio, ministers rely entirely on their human talents and have a lesser degree of potency and consequently less ministry success. Chrio is a power anointing, period. It comes upon the Lord’s servants for one reason, and one reason only: to empower them as effective witnesses of God’s Word, truth, and power. Because of this goal, chrio also supplies what it takes to yield to the moves and waves of the Holy Spirit. Without it, Christ’s ministers cannot quite submit to God’s will, be used by His power, or execute what cannot ordinarily be done by mortal humans. The anointing, when manifested in this context, uses the vessel rather than the normal course of affairs where the vessel uses the anointing in ministry. To clarify the distinctions between the chrio anointing and the others, in matters and tasks of a routine nature the vessel, God’s minister uses