Already Anointed—What Jesus Told Me About Defeating the Devil!
Today’s ministers often tell the crowds, “If you want deliverance, you have to give me an offering,” or “If you sow into my anointing, you’ll get an impartation.”
What are they talking about? You are already anointed! We are living after the New Testament was written; therefore, I do not want Elijah’s anointing or his mantle—it was an animal skin. When Jesus spoke to me for forty-five minutes in Heaven, I thought, Why would I want anyone else’s mantle? I want Jesus’s mantle.
Receiving Jesus’s Mantle
So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit” (John 20:21-22)
Before I went to Heaven, I had never thought of Jesus’s mantle. While I was at Rhema Bible College, I wanted Brother Hagin’s mantle. I would have taken any of those instructors’ mantles because they were so amazing. That school changed my life, but I was on my own after I left. Brother Hagin did not call me every day to check on me. I was left to myself and felt the devil more often than I felt God. I told Kathi it was as if I had a dragon breathing down my neck.
You have no idea what it is like to come back from Heaven and have to live down here. As of this writing, it has been thirty years since I came back. I just celebrated my thirtieth anniversary with Kathi; we met four months after I came back from Heaven. Since I returned, it has been a battle. So when Kathi married me, she got involved in what seemed like a cosmic war because satan did not want me here.
Imagine if you died, came back, and were given a chance to do it right. The Lord gave me revelation of Scriptures and downloads to navigate life. Jesus gave me the test questions and the answers, then sent me back with the tools to unravel the devil’s works. I know exactly what is going on, and you should too—we all should.
But when the Father sends the Advocate as My representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you (John 14:26 NLT).
I should have known the truth just by going to Rhema, but I was not putting into practice what I learned. While I was sitting in class, the Holy Spirit told me, “You had better listen. One day, you’re going to wish you listened because Brother Hagin will not always be with you. You have no idea how important and special you are to be in these classes with him.” In those classes, I struggled to stay awake because I was holding down three jobs to pay my bills.
As students at Rhema, we got ticketed for chewing gum. If I stepped on the grass, I got a ticket. I was told my hair was too long because it was touching my collar, and I thought, You’ve got to be kidding me. However, the Lord told me to go there, stay off the grass, and cut my hair. At times, I could not afford to get my hair cut. When gas went from $.99 per gallon to $1.03, I went into the red for the month; that is how tight my budget was. I did everything I was supposed to.
When I left school and went to work for Southwest Airlines, I took everything that had been deposited inside me and started to live it out. Yet when I returned from Heaven, what I received from Jesus was beyond what anyone had ever done by laying hands on me or speaking prophetically over me. Nothing compared to what happened to me in Heaven. When I was there, Jesus laid out the Word of God to me by simplifying it and instructing me on what to do. He said, “You wake up every morning and give the devil a headache. You make sure that you make his day hard. Do everything possible to unravel his kingdom. Do that by letting people know what has been done for them.”
We Need to Get Back on Track
God saved you by His grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago (Ephesians 2:8-10 NLT).
The whole idea of the gospel is to inform people of the benefit of believing in Jesus, which is eternal life. This is not just your ticket to Heaven; it is also making a mark in history while on earth. For some reason, most people do not understand this. The bottom line is that the church and its leadership have failed. We need to get back on track—immediately.
If you pray in the Spirit and diligently do the works of Jesus, you will find that people who were once comfortable around you will no longer be unless they have the same DNA of God. People will start to break away from you because they feel like they are being held back. After I met Jesus, I realized I wasn’t working Him; He was working me. I found out that many of my former thought patterns were misinterpretations of God’s Word. I could see that I needed a relationship with the Holy Spirit and did not just need the system.
Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love (1 Corinthians 13:13 NLT).
Faith is not the greatest of the three things listed in 1 Corinthians 13:13—it is love. Jesus expressed love to me by saying, “Kevin, just do the best you can, and I’ll make up for the rest, no problem.” He said, “If you can’t pay your bills, just work as hard as you can, and I will do a miracle to make up for it. Just take care of My people, and I’ll take care of you.” I became a spiritual father and felt I was supposed to help people walk in this revelation of God’s love. I was not called just to tell them what God has done and brag about my success. Many ministers boast about what God has done for them, as if it were a status symbol, while they are living off the offerings of the people.
But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6).
The bottom line is that when you give your money, you trust someone to do what is right. You expect God to take it and multiply it not only for the ministry but for you. He is going to reward you. We need to talk about this subject because it is seldom discussed. The church needs to be honest and embrace the understanding that God rewards those who diligently seek Him; He does not reward those who are cosmetic, fake, or who just maintain the system.
Build Upon Your Godly Heritage
This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? (Galatians 3:2-3).
You do not want to become a system. You must minister from the Spirit and be the life of God to someone else. This is how it happens: God speaks a word to you, and it becomes life. Once His word becomes real to you, you must immediately transfer that to someone else to keep the flow going. When God gives you something, share it. Testify when God does a miracle or answers your prayer. Share it right away and testify that God is moving.
So don’t worry about these things, saying, “What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?” These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and He will give you everything you need (Matthew 6:31-33 NLT).
God has already decided to take care of everything in your life, so do not worry about it. Do not waste your energy hashing over your needs. You may have been misrepresented or lied about. Often, people make up lies about others because they do not have anything, so you may be trying to make yourself feel better about something that is not even true. You must stop reacting to lies, let them go, and find somebody who needs help. Just do something for someone—it does not have to be much.
In your time of need, when you do something for another, you set up an altar unto the Lord. Abraham visited Bethel and built an altar there (Genesis 12:8). When his son Isaac was there, he visited that same altar at Bethel (Genesis 26:19-25). When Jacob, Abraham’s grandson, came to the same place, it was by default. He never knew that Abraham had built an altar there. Jacob actually stumbled across it when he was in trouble. That night, he fell asleep using a rock as a pillow and had a vision of the angels going up and down a ladder (Genesis 28:10-17).
When Jacob woke up, he said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it” (Genesis 28:16). Yet his grandfather or father should have told him about it. The rock Jacob used as a pillow was possibly one of the altar stones Abraham built his altar with, and it opened up the heavens for him. Jacob should have known the Lord was there because he had a godly heritage.
In Heaven, I had a chance to speak with ministers you probably know because they have had many people sit under them. They shared their heart on what they wanted from the other side. One man said, “Ever since I got up here, I’ve been bothering Jesus because I didn’t finish what I wanted to do.” To my surprise, he continued, “I’m so glad Jesus chose you.”
This world-known evangelist shared with me that he abused his body with drugs before he got saved, so he died early. He said, “My spirit kept wanting to live, but my body couldn’t keep up with the timeline that God had planned for my ministry. I didn’t finish the ministry because it wasn’t God’s will that I had been on drugs, even though I wasn’t saved at that time.” His organs deteriorated, so he developed a disease in his body.
The evangelist expressed that he was glad that I was chosen to finish what he started. He said, “However, it will take six of you to do what I was supposed to do. I’ve already talked to the Lord about this, and He will send you the people who worked for me.” At the time of this writing, all his former staff, except for one, work for Warrior Notes. We actually picked up where he left off.
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. …For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 3:9-11).
Everyone I talked to in Heaven wants us to continue with what they were doing—not replicate or maintain it but to exceed it. Rhema students may not like this, but Brother Hagin wants us to go further than he did. Jesus said you would exceed Him by doing greater works than His (John 14:12). Those in Heaven want us to surpass them because they see the whole plan of God. Brother Hagin would be happy to know that Rhema students are not only doing what they were taught but building upon it.
