The Price of walking in the anointing of God

The anointing of God comes on the new self. The cost of walking with God is this: We must each give up our old selves in order to embrace and become the person Christ has created us to be. We cannot fulfill the purpose of God in our life in the flesh. Human wisdom will fail us, and our understanding cannot get the job done. Therefore "put off the old man with his deeds" (Col. 3:9-10), for "if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new" (2 Corinthians 5:17). We have to live out what we have become in Christ because the “doing” comes out of the “being.” "The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God" (1 Cor. 2:14). Simply put, the anointing cannot come on the flesh.
Are you ready to pay the price? I sometimes wonder that the reason we don’t walk in the fullness of our calling is because it is costly. If we are to walk in the fullness of God’s call, there is a price that needs to be paid. We have to be committed to obey God without delay, completely, and submissively. Many desire to walk in the anointing of God, but don’t want to pay the price; therefore, their desire will not be fulfilled. There is a strict lifestyle the anointing demands of us.
There are some decisions that we should make that will cost us something. These decisions will make us a vessel worthy of walking in the anointing of God. These quality decisions will radically and permanently change the entire course of our life. We cannot be anointed by God and be careless rather we have to be faithful and diligent in our calling. Whenever we lay down our will to the will of God, we go into new territories. Once you sacrifice what God asks of you, you leave the shadowy realm of confusion into the light of God that feels your soul with joy.
Though it costs much to obey God, the benefits of our obedience will by far outweigh the loss. Paul, who understood the cost very well, declared, "What things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith." (Phil. 3:7-9). Here Paul is simply following the words of Jesus: we have to lose our life to gain his life. "Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it" (Matt. 10:39). We have to commit to Christ unreservedly.
When God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, only God knew how the story would end. Abraham obeyed God without delay. “I will hasten and not delay to obey your commands” (Psa. 119:60). If we let God have his way, the anointing will flow out of us. Paraphrasing the words of Paul, the apostle, Watchman Nee said, “Let death never cease to work in me that life may never cease to flow out to others.” “so death works in us, but life in you” (2Cor. 4:12).
As Abraham was walking those three days to sacrifice Isaac, he was entering to the provision of God by covenant. Once we have dedicated our life to the purpose of God, we have no more right to live. God did not say to Abraham, I will take your son. I would think that it would have been easier because God must have to kill Isaac; nevertheless, he asked Abraham to willingly sacrifice Isaac. The sacrifice symbolized the death of the person to the will of God. Abraham’s obedience was a two-edged sword. While one edge of the sword goes on Isaac, the other is cutting Abraham’s will. God is waiting on us to do his will over our will. Let us obey God for our sake, and he will trust us with more. God’s power and grace will see us through after we obey. Disobedience can never see the provision of God. The only way to see what God has in store for us is to let go of what is in our hands.