The Costly Anointing

By Pastor Christine Peebles

"Greater love hath no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends" (John 15:13)""that is exactly what Jesus done for us. Jesus gave his life to pay the debt that we owed and could not pay, and he paid the debt that he did not owe, which was our debt to sin. Now that is costly. One Sunday while preaching, I heard God say, "Look to your left." I did, and there was some writing on the wall that said, "Your debt to sin has been paid in full: it was written in blood." I stopped, and I screamed. I read to the congregation what was written on the wall. Some tried seeing it, but they couldn't""they had to receive the vision that God had given unto me. The blood of Jesus paying our debt to sin is the costly anointing. Jesus made himself a curse to redeem us from the curse of the law. Jesus bore our sins in his body as he hanged on the cross; he bore our griefs and carried our sorrows. The writer of Hebrews said, "For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities." That is costly. After writing my book, I Overcame by the Blood of the Lamb, I heard God say, "You obtained my anointing by the things that I suffered you to go through. I want you to title this book The Costly Anointing." There is nothing that can compensate for the shedding of Jesus's blood.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 21, 2018
• ISBN: 9781642582017

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The Costly Anointing

Pastor Christine Peebles

Copyright © 2018 Pastor Christine Peebles

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc

Meadville, PA

First originally published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc 2018

ISBN 978-1-64258-200-0 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64258-201-7 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

A Tribute in Memory of Pa and Ma

At the age of five, you took me into your lives; and at that time, tears were coming from my eyes. I wasn’t but five, yet my memory is very much alive. I wanted to go home with you but my mother said no, but then Pa said, Inell, let that child go. Her response to Pa wasn’t slow. She looked at me and said, Child, get you clothes and go.

Pa was a godly man: he kept the Bible in his hand. One day, he said, Rossie, take good care of Christine because when I leave here to go to my heavenly home, she is the one who is not going to leave you alone. With God, in 1966, Pa had his business fixed. He died, and, oh, how I cried! Ma done got old and she could hardly see, but that didn’t stop her from loving me because Pa said that was the way that it was supposed to be.

In 1987, it was after eleven, but it wasn’t quite seven. The death angel came, and Ma’s life he claimed. With Pa and Ma gone, life has never been the same; but I learned how to hold to God’s unchanging hand. Pa and Ma didn’t just take me into their home, but they took me into their hearts; now, that was a love that shall never depart. I love you, Pa. I love you, Ma. You are gone, but you will never be forgotten.

Pa, Rev. Allen James

Ma, Mrs. Rossie James

Acknowledgements and Special Thanks

First and above all things and everybody, I acknowledge and reverence my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the one who bore my sins in his body on the cross, who made himself to be a curse to redeem me from the curse of the law with the shedding of his blood, that my debt to sin would be paid in full.

I greatly appreciate and give a great, big thank-you to my son, Titus, for his belief in me becoming an author. For some years, he would tell people, My mother is writing a book. When people would make mention of it unto me, I would be speechless. Titus was calling those things that are not as thou they were. He spoke things into existence.

On June 23, 2016, early in the morning, I was in prayer, and I heard the Lord say, "It is time that you start writing the book, and I want you to start today. I want you to title the book I Overcame by the Blood of the Lamb. Immediately, I headed to Walgreens to buy a journal; and on my way there, Titus called me, and he asked, Momma, what are you doing? I told him that I was on my way to Walgreens to buy a journal and that the Lord had told me to start writing the book. He was so excited, he said, Momma, you have just made my day."

I began writing the book on June 23, 2015, and I completed the book on January 26, 2016. The book was published and was released for distribution on May 25, 2016. Titus was the greatest promoter of my book. He made posters and flyers for my book signing. Seemingly, he felt like everyone whom he knew and some folk whom he didn’t know needed to read his mother’s book.

I thank God and appreciate my son, Kelvin. Titus and myself—we are not social media people, but Kelvin is. He really put my book out there through social media in many places. People from other states inquired about, bought, and read my book.

I do thank and appreciate Sis. Shonray Brooks for her computer literacy. I never could have made it without her.

I am very, very thankful for Sis. Sandra Hall, Bro. John Troupe, and Bro. Chris Standford for their contributions toward the expense of publishing my book. I am also thankful for Sister Sandra’s encouragement lots of times during my writing.

I thank God for everyone else who has encouraged me and has been an inspiration unto me in writing this book.

Introduction

I heard the Lord Jesus Christ say in his word in Matthew 11:28–30,

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me: for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

We cannot receive the anointing of God upon nor within our lives without knowing Jesus and who he is, or can the yoke be destroyed off or out of our lives. This is why Jesus said, Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me. He also said that my yoke is easy and my burden is light. The prophet Isaiah said in Isaiah 10:27,

And it shall come to pass in that day, the burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

The anointing of God is very costly. Money can buy a whole lot of things; in fact, Solomon said in Ecclesiastes 10:19, A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes merry: but money answers all things. Money might be the answer to the things pertaining to the natural or necessities. Oh, but when it comes down to the things that the devil throws upon us, it’s going to take the anointing of God to destroy that yoke. Our warfare is not with things we can see or touch but things that are not seen or cannot be touched. Apostle Paul said in Ephesians 6:12, For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Now that I know what I am fighting against, I need this costly anointing for my warfare. I know in a spiritual warfare, I got to have a spiritual weapon. Apostle Paul said in 2 Corinthians 10:3–5:

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our war fare are not carnal, but mighty in God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalt itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

In my first book that God inspired me to write, I Overcame by the Blood of the Lamb, my life of overcoming testimonies revolved around this costly anointing within and upon my life.

Without the anointing, I could not have overcome.

A songwriter wrote, Amazing grace, how sweet the sound. My God is an amazing God.

Today, February 4, 2017, God said, Begin writing the book. On February 4, 1970, I was victimized for twenty-five years until a man of God, Bishop Virgil Badie, prayed the prayer of faith for my deliverance. I thought I would lose my mind and sometimes I wished I was dead, but God didn’t suffer it to be. God told me that he allowed me to be victimized then for such a time as this. From the time my book, I Overcame by the Blood of the Lamb was published and went out into the hands of them who were in bondage, there are many overcoming testimonies.

Today, forty-seven years have passed, and I can say I am not the victim; I am the victor. I testify because of this costly anointing that has been imparted in me.

Chapter 1

The Anointing and the Blood of the Lamb

Today, I can say that God has moved in my life and through me multitudes of times, but the moving of and by his spirit never ceases to amaze me. On June 23, 2015, I was on my knees in prayer, and I heard the Lord say it was time to start writing the book. He said, "I want you to start today, and I want you to title the book I Overcame by the Blood of the Lamb. God talked to me as to what and how to write. The book has been written, published, and gone into the hands of many who was in bondage, even as I was before the anointing of God destroyed the yoke off my life. God amazes me because the things that happened in my life, I was never able to talk or tell anyone. Then God would have me write and let the world know what I suffered through and that it was by the blood of the Lamb that I overcame and triumphed. Everything that God does in our lives, he has a purpose and a reason, a timing and a season. He said in the book of Ecclesiastes 3:1, To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."

From the very beginning of the creation, God done things by times and seasons. When he created the light, he separated the light from darkness, and he called the light day and he called the darkness night. While he was creating, he made mention of things being done for signs and seasons and for days and years: And God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years (Gen. 1:14).

Many times, God speaks things unto us prophetically in dreams, visions, and direct into our spirit. When he does, it’s not always the time or the season for it to come forth. As Habakkuk 2:2–3 says,

The Lord assured me, and said write the vision and make it plain upon tables that he may run who read it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie: though it tarry wait for it, because it shall surely come, it will not tarry.

I said that about times, seasons, and purposes because in October 2016, God told me that I would write another book. So that day, I headed to Walgreens to purchase a journal. God didn’t talk to me anymore, so I couldn’t write. On February 1, 2017, I was at work, and I heard the Lord say, "Title the book The Costly Anointing."

That day, I just knew that I would go home and begin writing, but to my surprise, God didn’t give me anything to write, the same thing on Thursday or Friday night. I thought I would write after prayer, but God didn’t give me anything. On Saturday, February 4, 7:00 a.m. was shut-in consecration and prayer at the church. God told me, Take your journal with, so I did. I was lying on the floor praying, and the Lord said, Start writing, so I did.

In my writing, I wrote, Today is February 4, 2017, and then I could write no more. I prayed and cried, "Oh my God! Today is February 4. Today is exactly forty-seven years ago that I was abducted from the Greyhound bus station in Augusta, Georgia, and raped.

I lay there on that floor, and I cried and I cried. Once again, I felt as if I would lose my mind. I could see that slender black man with the huge afro. I could see myself back then on February 4, 1970, and I could hear that man saying, See these syringes on the dashboard? I am a heroin addict. And if you don’t hush, I will inject heroin into you.

I could see myself standing alone, and nobody cared about what happened to me, not even the cops. I remembered the tag number, the cops came, but nothing was ever done. I was a virgin, and the pain I went through in my body, and nobody offered to take me to a doctor. My mother called me one time to see if my cycle had come on, and from that day until this day, nothing has ever been mentioned about what happened to me.

Nobody was concerned about my pain or what state of mind I was in or the possibility of me committing suicide, which was a plan if I had been pregnant. I asked the Lord, Why did you choose this day for me to begin writing this book? I hadn’t received an answer, but I know that God has a purpose and a plan.

My reminiscing was only for a short period of time. God had to bring to my remembrance what, when, and how I was going through, and how he brought me out. I can understand why David said in Psalms 124:2: If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us: 124:3: Then they had swallowed us up quickly when their wrath was kindled against us. God was on my side before I ever came into existence. He loved me so much that he gave his only begotten son, that after the troubles of this life is over, that I can have everlasting life.

I thank God for the suffering, the bloodshed, and the dying of the Lord Jesus Christ. I think about in the book of Genesis when Adam and Eve transgressed the laws of God and they spiritually died, and I say spiritual death because they were still living physically. Physical death is not as bad as spiritual death. Yes, most of the time, when someone whom we love so much dies, we have great sorrows and grief; and sometimes we don’t want to go on living without that person.

In saying that and feeling that way, if I had to make a choice between the two, I would choose to die physically. To die physically is to separate the soul from the body; to die spiritually, this separates the soul from God. The Bible calls this the second death and everlasting punishment. When Adam and Eve ate off the tree of knowledge of good and evil and died spiritually, God said, I got to move them out of the garden, and I am going to let angels guard the tree of life, lest they eat of it and live forever. Thanks be to God he did not suffer it to be.

If we had to live forever, there would be no one to bear our griefs and carry our sorrows. There would not have been a second Adam. The Bible said that the first man, Adam, was a living soul, but the second Adam is a quickening spirit, who is none other than the Lord Jesus Christ.

The anointing cannot come forth or be manifested before the blood of the Lamb is applied to our lives. Before Jesus came in the flesh, the prophet Isaiah saw him being the slain Lamb.

He said in Isaiah 53:7, He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he was brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before his shearers, is dumb, so he open not his mouth. Jesus was and is the word. John 1:1–2 says, In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. For him to become oppressed, wounded, bruised, and to shed his blood, the word had to be made flesh, as we read in John 1:14: And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."

The prophet Isaiah said that he was despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. These things could not have been so in a spirit, so he had to enter into a fleshly body. So the writer of Hebrews said in Hebrews 10:5, Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he said, sacrifice and offering thou would not, but a body hast thou prepared me.

During the laws of Moses, burnt offerings, sacrifices, and the blood of bulls and goats were sacrificed for sins. Then Jesus said in Hebrews 10:4, It is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Jesus offered his body for the sins of all:

By which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God. (Heb. 10:10, 12)

The Blood of the Lamb

There was a time when Satan—that old serpent called the devil—was in heaven, but now he has been cast down here upon the earth. He is also called the accuser of the brethren:

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, now is come salvation and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accuse them before God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. (Rev. 12:9–11)

The devil is greatly at war with us because his time is quickly running out. He is so angry with the saints who knows about the power of Jesus’s blood. Wow! The devil thought he had me, but I got away and found a hiding place under Jesus’s blood; and he is so angry because he only has a little bit of time left, as we read in Revelation 12:12: Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea: for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows he hath but a short time. Thanks be to God and my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I’m covered with the blood, and the devil can’t come under the covering.

I understand that from my early childhood days until the present time, nothing has happened in my life or to me that God hadn’t ordained it to be so. When the times came in my life that I stood at the crossroads of life, not knowing what to do or which way to go, this is when I learned what the powers of the blood of Jesus could do and what it could do in my life.

On February 4, 1970, when I was raped, or the victim of that rapist, I just could not understand why God would let something like that happen to me. I knew that I was a sinner, but by the same token, I made a vow to God that I would be a virgin until the day I got married. At that particular time, I felt as if God didn’t do right toward me, but thanks be unto God, this was one of the situations that helped me to find my way to the foot of the cross and experience the powers of the blood of the Lamb.

I felt so unclean, but of course, my multitude of sins made me to be unclean. But when my sexual rights were violated, I felt so, so nasty. When I thought at any given time I would have a mental breakdown and I wanted to die, which I would have killed myself if I had become pregnant, I turned to the Lord and let my cry and complaints be made known unto him. Apostle Paul said in 11 Corinthians 7:10, For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world works death.

During that time, I didn’t know about these things; all I knew was that I felt so hurt and bad about my sins. Some sins I felt more hurt over than others. Going into the bathroom, getting down on my knees in front of the commode, crying out unto God—this was the beginning of the blood washing away my sins and purging me of my iniquities. When I look back and think, there was no better place I could have went than in the bathroom, at the commode, to be purged of my sins.

Today, I can honestly say, I thank God he chose me to be the rape victim and made me to be an overcomer. God has imparted an anointing upon and within my life that has brought deliverance in the lives of many men, women, boys, and girls. My soul rejoices in the Lord when people tell me this happened unto me when I was a little girl—or little boy—and I never could tell anyone. When they tell me I battled with this for ten years, twenty years, thirty years, and, sometimes, even forty years; you prayed for me, and God revealed it unto you, and God said he was going to destroy the yoke off me, and today I am free. Oh, it is because of the anointing of God and the precious blood of the Lamb.

The price you pay for the anointing doesn’t feel so good to the flesh, but the reward is out of this world. In the book of Genesis, Joseph, the eleventh son of Jacob, had a vision; and he suffered through many things while he waited on his word to come. At the end, in the land of Egypt, Joseph told his brothers concerning a time when they wanted to kill him or putting him in a cave to die and selling him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver.

They didn’t know that Joseph had the costly anointing that money could not buy. Joseph told them, I am in the place with God, but as for you, you thought evil against me: but God meant it for good to bring to pass as it is this day, to save much people alive (Gen. 50:20). Again, this is why I can say I thank God for choosing me to be victimized because if he had not chosen me, then I would not have had the testimony, I am not the victim, I am the victor. I would not have the testimony, I overcame by the blood of the Lamb.

The Bible let us know that Jesus is the anointed one and that he was anointed by the Father. Acts 10:38 said that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power. He wants to give this same anointing unto us. He said in John 14:18, I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you.

Jesus’s disciples became a bit sorrowful when they heard he was about to leave them. The anointing is spiritual, supernatural, and it can’t be obtained through the flesh. Jesus said, Because I have told you about these things, sorrow has filled your hearts (John 16:6); but he made them to know, [With] my hanging around here in the flesh, you can’t receive the promise. He said in John 16:7–8,

Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is expedient for you that I go away, the comforter will not come unto you: but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness and of judgment.

The comforter, the Holy Ghost, and the anointing—the three are the same or one. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost—the three are one. We cannot come to the Father except through Jesus. We can pray to the Father only through Jesus Christ. The Holy Ghost is the anointing and the Holy Ghost was promised to us from the Father, and we can only receive the anointing through Jesus Christ for he is the anointed one. We have got to be in a place to receive this anointing. Jesus said in Luke 24:49, And behold, I send the promise of my father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.

Jesus and the Father are neither fleshly beings nor are they of this world; but when he was in this world and in the flesh, he prayed unto the Father that if we came to him, he would keep us. The Holy Ghost is a keeper and a teacher. Jesus said, I am no longer in this world, but I want to send them my anointing that they can be kept, and be one even as we are one, which we read in John 17:11–12:

And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee, Holy Father, keep through thin own name those whom thou hast given