{"id":13793,"date":"2023-03-28T14:33:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T14:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13793"},"modified":"2023-03-28T14:33:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T14:33:10","slug":"is-the-anointing-a-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13793\/is-the-anointing-a-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Anointing a Ceremony?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">John, Good Morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">You answered my question Sunday morning, when reading some scriptures in Acts, but that brings me to my next question: If a person has to be anointed to perform an act, is that a ceremony?\u00a0 I am thinking not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Wendell<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>No, Wendell, the anointing of God is not a ceremony in this covenant, as it was in the old one.\u00a0 Now, the anointing to do anything in God&#8217;s kingdom is in the Spirit, and by the Spirit alone.\u00a0 In the Old Testament, physical oil was used to anoint someone, but not now.\u00a0 No rituals exist in God&#8217;s kingdom.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, Good Morning. You answered my question Sunday morning, when reading some scriptures in Acts, but that brings me to my next question: If a person has to be anointed to perform an act, is that a ceremony?\u00a0 I am thinking not. Wendell ========= No, Wendell, the anointing of God is not a ceremony in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}