Wednesday 6th August, 2025
Bible Reading: Numbers 27:18-23
Memory Verse: Now Joshua son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him, doing just as the LORD had commanded Moses. Deuteronomy 34:9 (NLT)
At the end of 1961, a young exchange student studying at the Bible College of Wales in Swansea, was on his way home, when he decided to take an unguided sightseeing tour of London. As he walked, he came across a house with a nameplate on the front that said “George Jeffreys”.
He wondered if it could be the great George Jeffreys who had founded the Elim Pentecostal churches in Ireland and England and whom he had read so much about. This is how he tells the story: “I rang the bell. A lady opened the door. ‘Pardon my intrusion, ma’am.
Does George Jeffreys, the famous firebrand evangelist I have heard so much about, live here?’ ‘Yes, he does’. ‘May I see him?’ ‘No. Under no circumstances.’ She had hardly said no when I heard a deep voice from within the house say, ‘Let the young man come in.’ I stepped forward, took his hand and introduced myself.
I told him I had a call of God on my life to be an evangelist and to preach the gospel in Africa. That I had been to college in Swansea (Bible College in Wales) and was now returning to Germany.
What happened next was extraordinary. All of a sudden, he took me by my shoulders and fell to his knees, pulling me to the floor with him. He placed his hands on my head and began to bless me as a father blesses a son, as Abraham blessed Isaac, who blessed Jacob, and on and on.
The room seemed to light up with the glory of God as he poured out his prayer over me. I do not remember the words with which he blessed me, but I do remember their effect. My body felt electrified, tingling with divine energy.
After about half an hour he finished. I stood up and helped him to his feet. He seemed very frail. We said goodbye. The lady came and escorted me away. He could hardly stand. Nor could I, for different reasons.” That young man went on to become one of the greatest healing evangelists of his generation. His name was Reinhard Bonnke. When he got off the train in Germany, Bonnke was told by his dad that G.Jeffreys had just died.
Lesson:
1. Did you observe that it was after Reinhard Bonnke had finished his Bible training, God connected him to the man who will impart him? Many want to connect to ancient mantles without subjecting themselves to a lifestyle that bears the burden of such. Sustainable genuine anointing thrives on knowledge. First, you must build capacity.
2. Before the anointing comes, usually there is a period of test or training – a word of instruction to obey over time, a season of deep discipline to endure, a period of service with(out) remuneration, a season of betrayal or loneliness or solitary confinement to pass through, a period of strategic prayer and fasting, etc. Subject yourself to the condition needed to carry genuine anointing. It is worth the price!
3. Every great work ever done was powered by an impartation.
Quote: There are many ingredients in the equation of destiny fulfilment.
Prophetic Decree: May the Lord connect you to the Man with the Oil needed for your life assignment, in Jesus name.
Prayer Focus
1. By your mercies Lord, connect me to the anointing that will boost my destiny, in Jesus name.
2. The man with my jar of Oil shall not die before I meet him, in Jesus name.
3. I receive grace to develop capacity needed to carry the anointing of the Holy Spirit, in Jesus name.
4. I receive the needed humility to grow in the anointing, in Jesus name.
5. Holy Spirit, move me to my place of destiny encounter, in Jesus name.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Zephaniah 1-3
