The Five Fold Purpose Of The Anointing The anointing is the unusual presence of the Holy Spirit in a person or a place at a particular time. Zachariah 4:6 says, “Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of Hosts” . In the Old Testament the Holy Spirit anointing came on people to accomplish a specific task through them (read Judges 14:6 & 19). In the New Testament era, the Holy Spirit has come to stay with believers. 1 Corinthians 2:12-16 teaches us, “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all thi