“And it shall come to pass in that day, that his 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” (Isa. 10:27, KJV).
A vital part of the new-wine doctrine that God is restoring is the revelation and belief in the anointing. The anointing is the power of God. Miracles happen by that power. God’s primary way of releasing miracles is by placing His anointing within His servants and then flowing through them as they walk in their God-given authority.
God performed signs, wonders and miracles in Egypt through Moses by splitting the sea and delivering His people by His power. It was when Moses spoke or lifted his staff that these miracles were released.
God also performed mighty wonders through Elijah. Through him, God multiplied flour and oil for a starving widow, called down fire from heaven, raised the dead, and parted waters. Elijah’s spiritual son, Elisha, received his mantle, and God used him as well to perform many miracles. By God’s power, Elisha multiplied food, provided oil for a widow, healed a man of leprosy, raised the dead, and parted waters. Even after Elisha’s death the anointing still rested upon his bones—so much so that when a dead man’s body touched them, the man came back to life!
In the New Testament, Jesus performed many miracles—healing the sick, casting out demons, opening blind eyes, opening deaf ears, and raising the dead. Everywhere Jesus ministered, the casting out of demons and the healing of the sick always accompanied His teaching. “So he traveled throughout the region of Galilee, preaching in the synagogues and casting out demons” (Mark 1:39, NLT).
Jesus then told His disciples that they would do the same works He did, and even greater (John 14:12). He commissioned them as apostles, instructing: “Go and announce to them that the Kingdom of Heaven is near. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cure those with leprosy, and cast out demons. Give as freely as you have received!” (Matt. 10:7–8, NLT). The apostles and other fivefold ministers throughout the book of Acts did the same works as Jesus, just as He said would happen!
People need freedom from demons and healing from sickness today just as much as they did in the time of Jesus and the early church in Acts. Healing and deliverance should not be limited to a few ministries or happen only once a year at a conference. Every church should be healing the sick and casting out demons by the power of God. The sheep (believers) need more than teaching—they need the power of God.
The Anointing Destroys the Yoke
It is the anointing that destroys the yoke (Isa. 10:27). Oppression, curses, sickness and strongholds can be broken only by God’s power. At times, God may heal or deliver someone as they cry out to Him alone in their room, but His primary way of releasing miracles is through His anointed servants—those through whom His power flows.
In the book of Acts, believers were continually in awe of the signs and wonders performed by the apostles (Acts 2:43). God’s method of releasing His anointing is through the fivefold ministers He appoints, equipping them with higher levels of anointing as the foundation of the church. Apostles and prophets in particular are often entrusted with greater measures of power to establish His kingdom on earth. The Bible says, “God did extraordinary miracles through Paul” (Acts 19:11).
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In the same way, God anoints apostles and prophets today to perform extraordinary miracles. This does not mean that every apostle or prophet will perform extraordinary miracles, just as not every one of them in the Bible did. The level of anointing on each fivefold minister depends on their specific calling and their measure of faith.
Scripture declares, “These signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons…they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover” (Mark 16:17–18, NKJV). Every believer is called to walk in God’s power, yet among the fivefold ministers, some carry greater faith, and through that faith God uses them as vessels to perform greater works.
In the old-wine doctrine, people tend to resist God’s working through His servants in power. Many believers today want to see God perform miracles, yet they become uncomfortable when those miracles happen through a vessel. What’s striking about this mindset is that it looks nothing like the church we see in the book of Acts. Every miracle recorded in the New Testament was performed through a person—a servant of God whom He chose to anoint and use.
In the time of Jesus, the Pharisees’ hearts were hardened to the truth and beauty of what God was doing. God was healing, delivering, and reviving people through Jesus, but rather than rejoicing, the Pharisees were fixated on finding fault. When Jesus healed the man who had been blind from birth, instead of praising God for the miracle, the Pharisees accused Jesus of being a sinner and of breaking the Sabbath. They even interrogated the man who had been healed, trying to get him to agree with their accusations (John 9). The pride, skepticism, and jealousy in the Pharisees’ hearts blinded them to who Jesus truly was. They refused to acknowledge or honor Him because He walked in power, and they did not.
Because it is rare today to see vessels of God walking in true power, and because there are still prideful hearts like the Pharisees’, it has become common for people to do exactly what they did to Jesus. Some even go so far as to accuse God’s servants of operating by demonic power, just as the Pharisees did to Jesus. After Jesus delivered a man who was blind and mute because of a demon, and the man was able to see and speak, the Pharisees falsely accused Jesus of casting out demons by the power of Satan: “But when the Pharisees overheard what the people were saying about the miracle, they said, ‘He casts out demons by the power of Satan, the prince of demons!’” (Matt. 12:24, TPT).
God will not be manipulated, and He will never go against His Word. To act like the Pharisees—refusing to accept God’s moving in power through His chosen vessels—is truly a wicked way. For the power of God to be restored in the body of Christ, we must come into alignment with God’s ways of releasing His power.
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
—2 Chronicles 7:14, KJV
There are many churches today where members remain in bondage because there is no anointing present to deliver them. If pastors would humbly acknowledge where God is moving in power today and lead their congregations to those places, the people could be set free! And if ministers would humble themselves to recognize that they need what an anointed servant of God carries—if they would seek impartation—then God would pour out His anointing upon them. They too would begin to deliver the oppressed and heal the sick within their own churches.
This is happening even now! I’ve seen many pastors come humbly to my church, and as God led me to release impartation to them, they began to walk in the power of God. Today, people are being healed and set free regularly in their own congregations. But many ministers still struggle to humble themselves and come to the place where God can truly entrust them with His anointing.
Jesus said, “For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted” (Luke 14:11, NLT). You must first go low before God can lift you high. He cannot pour out His mighty anointing upon those who refuse to humble themselves.
In the days of Jesus, the Pharisees held their congregations back from encountering Jesus in His love and His power. Tragically, many leaders today are acting in the same ways as the Pharisees of the past. But God is saying, “If you will humble yourselves and genuinely pray—if you will truly seek after My heart—you will hear My voice guiding you to My revival and to where I am moving in power.”
If leaders and believers alike would humble themselves and pray to hear God’s voice, they would find Him guiding them to align under the modern-day Peters and Pauls. There, they would receive impartation, be healed, and be set free, and in turn, they would carry that same power to bring healing and freedom to others, releasing revival and healing across the land.
Divine Structure
In God’s kingdom, there is a divine government structure. He gives every believer authority, yet each one carries a different measure of authority and a specific area where they are called to exercise it. This is similar to how government operates on earth. For example, in America there is a president, senators, governors, judges, police officers, teachers, and parents. Each one operates within their assigned sphere of authority. Parents have authority over their children. As they lovingly discipline and guide them, those children grow to become assets to society, helping to advance the nation’s ideals of freedom, equality, democracy, and the pursuit of happiness.
Within the sphere of school systems, teachers carry authority over their students. Police officers uphold order and justice in their jurisdiction, and through their rightful use of authority, the values of the nation are protected and preserved. The same principle applies to judges, governors, senators, the president and even those in the workplace, such as business owners and leaders.
Each one, when operating rightly in their God-given authority, contributes to the greater good and the advancement of purpose. God’s vision is for all believers to become vessels of Him, walking in authority, speaking His Word, moving mountains, and revealing His love. As we live this way, heaven is brought to earth, and transformation comes to the world, one soul at a time.
God assigns each of us different functions to fulfill His divine vision. He has appointed apostles and prophets as the foundation for equipping the body of Christ and establishing the work of God. To them He entrusts the highest levels of spiritual authority.
As a result of the apostles’ work, sick people were brought out into the streets on beds and mats so that Peter’s shadow might fall across some of them as he went by.Crowds came from the villages around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those possessed by evil spirits, and they were all healed.
—Acts 5:15–16, NLT
This scripture reveals that there was clear recognition of Peter’s position within the kingdom government — as an apostle who carried an extraordinarily high level of anointing, similar to Paul (Acts 19:11). The reason why all were being healed was the people simply aligned themselves with God’s order of releasing His power, through His kingdom structure. They recognized Peter’s place of authority in that divine order and positioned themselves to receive the anointing flowing through him.
As people came to where Peter was ministering, demons and sicknesses had no choice but to leave. Peter carried a level of anointing that overpowered even the highest ranks of demonic forces. God has made it truly this simple for people to be healed and set free. It is religion (operating in the old wine) that makes it complicated. It is religion that closes the door to God’s help.
Jesus was in the same city as the Pharisees, and it would have been so simple for them to receive salvation, healing, freedom, and transformation. All they needed to do was humble themselves and show up where Jesus was ministering. The power of God would have touched them if they had just positioned their hearts to receive. They were physically close to Jesus yet spiritually far from Him because of pride.
It is just as simple and easy to encounter Jesus’ power today, to be healed, delivered, and receive impartation. God has brought a global revival! But when pride fills the heart, it blocks the flow of God. Instead of stepping into revival, many remain outside of it. They are still praying for revival while resisting the very move God has already released.
God gives apostles and prophets the highest levels of anointing, and He entrusts pastors, evangelists, and teachers with the next level of authority. This does not mean that every apostle carries the same measure of anointing or authority. The amount of anointing varies according to each person’s specific calling and their level of faith. For example, a truly anointed pastor leading a large congregation may carry a greater anointing and authority than an anointed apostle who is called to minister to a smaller group. Each of the fivefold offices carries and exercises authority within their own spiritual territory. Likewise, every believer has authority within their own God-given dominion. Each believer is given authority over their personal spiritual life to resist the devil, reject his lies, and make him flee.
However, spiritual authority over others, to cast out demons, to heal the sick, to shepherd, or to teach is not given to everyone. God must first see that a person is trustworthy before He increases their level of authority. We are all called to share the good news, but not all are called to be teachers or fivefold ministers (James 3:1). As Ephesians 4:11 says, “And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers” (NKJV).
God releases the greatest levels of authority and anointing to apostles and prophets, followed by evangelists, pastors, and teachers, so that they may pour out that anointing into the believers. This is the divine principle of impartation, as seen when Elijah released his mantle to Elisha. Just as a student needs a teacher who possesses greater wisdom and understanding in order to grow, so it is in the kingdom of God. God raises up fivefold ministers and fills them with great anointing, wisdom, and spiritual knowledge so that believers may learn, grow, and receive impartation through them as they humbly submit under their leadership. This is God’s divine structure.
The power of God will be restored to many more churches and believers as leaders and all believers embrace God’s kingdom government structure. Through this divine order, miracles flow mightily, and impartation is released, empowering believers to walk in the same anointing and authority.
Order
God is also restoring divine order to the body of Christ. He is a God of order (1 Cor. 14:40). Where there is no order, chaos and confusion take over, resulting in division. The Bible warns about this: “Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, ‘Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand’” (Matt. 12:25).
This is a spiritual principle: The more united a group is, the more powerful it becomes; the more divided, the weaker it becomes. When division enters a church, it limits what God can do. His power cannot move mightily in a house that is not in unity. There are several ways a church can fall out of order, one of which is a lack of submission to leadership. A football team is led by a coach—one head coach who carries the vision for how the team will play and win. The coach determines the starting lineup, the plays, and the adjustments needed when the opposing team takes the lead.
The team’s success depends on its unity, on every player’s willingness to respect and follow the coach’s direction. If even one player becomes rebellious and prideful and believes they know better than the coach, it weakens the entire team. Imagine that player suddenly giving different directions right before the next play; confusion and division would take over, almost guaranteeing defeat. This is exactly how it is in the church. For every true leader of a ministry, God gives a specific vision and anoints that person to lead. He equips them with the grace to teach, to handle difficult situations with wisdom and discernment, and to navigate spiritual warfare and persecution against the church.
Unfortunately, a lack of honor for, awareness of, and submission to the anointing upon the leader God has chosen is common in many churches today. We are in a spiritual war, carrying out a divine mission. As the body of Christ, we are a revival army—and every army must honor its captain. In the same way, you must have reverence for the leader God has placed over your church. This is not something to be done lightly but with the fear of God.
It’s common in many churches for people to treat church as something casual, forgetting the sacred purpose and weight of what God is doing there. It is also common for some to act like prideful players, believing they know better than the leader, assuming authority, and leading others into confusion. But when every believer comes into alignment, united under godly leadership, the church becomes strong, moving forward in power, advancing the kingdom of God, and destroying the works of the devil with great speed.
Order in the church also includes honoring and following the principles of God. In many places, especially within the old-wine way, people pray however they feel led, according to what they were taught, or by imitating what they have seen others do. But God has specific principles for how demons are to be cast out and how the sick are to be healed.
We are to model our prayers after Jesus and the apostles in the book of Acts. They ministered by walking in their authority in Christ. They didn’t beg God to deliver someone. They commanded demons to go. Their prayers were simple and full of power, without striving, theatrics, or loud performance. Because they truly carried the power of God, their simple words released mighty results. When Jesus commanded a demon to leave, it was with few words. Throughout Scripture, when Jesus, the apostles, or other ministers prayed for the sick or oppressed, it was always one person ministering to another or to a crowd—never several people laying hands at once or shouting commands together.
We see this principle clearly in Acts 5:15: “As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.”
Another example is found in Acts 8:6–7: “When the crowds heard Philip and saw the signs he performed, they all paid close attention to what he said. For with shrieks, impure spirits came out of many, and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed.”
And in Acts 19:11–12: “God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.”
In all these examples, miracles occurred as one servant of God walked in their authority in Christ, and the anointing flowed through them to touch the people. When Jesus prayed for the sick and delivered the oppressed, He demonstrated this principle of walking in authority.
The principle of authority means that when one person carries delegated authority over a group, their word, instruction, or command is honored and carried out by those under that authority. Students in a classroom understand that they are to obey their teacher. If a single police officer gives a command to a crowd, people listen. When a mayor, governor, or president issues a mandate, citizens understand they must follow it.
It works the same way in the spiritual realm. When demons recognize that a leader — or believers within a church — are not operating in true spiritual authority, they exploit the lack of order. They find loopholes and hide. It’s like a classroom where the teacher doesn’t understand or exercise their authority. In those cases the classroom becomes chaotic and students take advantage of the situation.
These two areas in the church — submission to godly leadership and praying according to God’s principles — are among the main places where disorder has taken root. But in this time of revival, God is restoring divine order to His church.
As apostles teach the principles of the kingdom of God and the importance of order, and as prophets release the fear of the Lord, spiritual eyes will be opened to understand the true meaning and necessity of walking in God’s order.
Kathryn Krick is a rising online influencer, apostolic minister, and the lead pastor of 5F Church in Los Angeles, where miracles happen and people are healed, delivered, and transformed as the prophetic anointing flows powerfully. She travels the world ministering with a passion to see people encounter the power of God, be set free, walk in abundant life, and be transformed into mature, anointed vessels of God. Her new book, Ignite Revival, is available on Amazon.com.
