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Will you excel in the anointing? Will you keep the anointing? Two questions that every young person must face: will I excel in what God has entrusted to me? And will it only be for a time, or can I hope to last, to persevere in power and holiness? Today, the Spirit of God is not just seeking gifted, inspired, passionate young people, stirred in spiritual gifts, but young people who display the virtues of Christ. This is the cry of heaven for this generation: that young people stop running after the spectacle of gifts to embrace the character of the Son.
1 John 2:14 – Young men, you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
There was a category of young people in the early church who were not simply present, but powerful, excellent, solid, rooted. Young people whose grounding in the Word enabled them to overcome the evil one. Young people strengthened not by titles, but by virtues.
Why do so many brilliant young people burn out along the way? Why have we seen so many revivals in the past die prematurely? Because a flamboyant anointing without character ensures neither excellence nor longevity. You can start in the Spirit and end in the flesh if you don’t develop the foundations of character. The dramatic stories of young people powerfully used who later collapsed are a painful historical reality. Some even ended in suicide. Why? They had the anointing, but not the virtues. They operated the gifts but did not display the fruit of the Spirit. It is virtues that give the anointing a lasting trajectory and spiritual weight.
Galatians 4:19 – I am again in the pain of childbirth until Christ is formed in you.
Paul was not suffering to impart a prophecy. No. He was not suffering to communicate a word of knowledge. He was suffering so that their character would change, so that their reasoning would resemble that of Christ. This is what it means to excel in the anointing: to be inwardly transformed, until we resemble Jesus in the way we think, react, love, serve, forgive.
A virtue is a mindset and behavior that Jesus Himself embodied as a path to spiritual results. It is not an external performance or emotional excitement. It is a copy-paste of Jesus in how we live each situation. Spiritual gifts alone do not produce lasting fruit. It is virtues, attitudes, and choices of the heart that allow the Holy Spirit to manifest a pure power, resistant to the wear of time and the pressure of crowds. A pure anointing requires a pure character.
Even in the most powerful revivals, a wind of the Spirit also exposes filth. The Spirit not only reveals your destiny, He also lays bare your deformations. This is why in times of power, we also see scandals. The Spirit reveals to transform.
To be strong, according to God, is not to impress people with a title or three recorded deliverances. To be strong is to produce above-average results in the area of your calling. That’s why God says, “Let the weak say: I am strong” (Joel 3:10). To God, a weak person is someone who has not yet reached their heavenly threshold of output. You’ve led 200 souls to Christ? You’re still weak. You think you’ve reached a mountaintop with your small local revival meeting? Let this be clear: until you’ve brought 1,000 pagans to baptism, you haven’t even made it onto the list of the weak. God does not distribute authority to those who pray loudly, He entrusts it to those who are strong in character.
If there is one virtue that God absolutely wants to see in your life, it’s submission. This is not a dusty religious concept. It is an unbreakable law of the Kingdom. Read Luke 2:51: Jesus, despite His manifest divine identity – He, the Eternal Wisdom – was submitted to His human parents.
He was subject to them. (Luke 2:51)
The Eternal Son submitted to an ordinary mother and a carpenter. What a breaking! He didn’t submit because His parents were always right. He submitted to reveal a Kingdom principle: the channel of glory flows through the humility of submission.
You have your projects, your strategy, your prophetic visions, but what do you do when a spiritual authority halts you? Do you cry out “they’re fighting my ministry” or “I bless God for the training”? Submission is killing your will to do the will of someone God has placed above you. You don’t acquire authority by loud prayers or binge fasting. Authority comes by alignment – by your ability to accept limits, to not post what you want without validation, to remain anonymous while God prepares you.
In Matthew 8, the centurion says to Jesus: “Just say the word,” because he too was under authority. He knew that authority operates through delegation, not agitation. You cannot make demons tremble if you tremble when it comes to obeying your parents or your pastor.
1 Corinthians 14:32 – The spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.
The true test of the prophetic is not the accuracy of your revelations. It’s your submission to a tangible authority.
Today we are experiencing an epidemic of “dadism,” where young people self-proclaim as spiritual fathers even though they’ve never borne the birth pains for a single soul. In Galatians 4, Paul doesn’t call himself a father lightly — he suffers. Discipling others comes at a cost! We pay the price in prayer, in patience, through repeated teachings, sometimes with tears. You cannot say “my son” to someone you haven’t birthed through prayer. Just because you gave a true word doesn’t mean you suddenly have the right to rename someone’s spiritual identity.
Now, in this generation, many take people they have never wept for before God, call them “sons,” and tell them to leave their home assembly. The result:
God will not bless that.
All true ministry begins at the school of submission: to your parents, to your pastors, to your environment. When a young person starts to honor their parents, to fear their fathers, a powerful word is activated:
The Lord will command His angels concerning you.
This respect for hierarchy gives your anointing power in the heavenly realms.
Are you ready to excel without posting about it? Are you ready to obey without your name being mentioned? Are you ready to weep without accusation, to endure injustice without murmuring, to rise in secret? This is the character of the young people God wants to use to awaken this generation.
Lord, form Christ in me. Uproot every form of rebellion, pride, and presumption. Break in me what loves to be seen, what wants to be recognized without being built up. Teach me to submit. Clothe me with your humility. Make me obedient like You, submitted like Jesus, fervent but hidden. Today I choose to align myself with Your ways. Lord, I want to excel in Your anointing — but I want Your virtues first. May my life reflect Your character, may my words express Your heart. Father, break whatever must be broken and use me for Your glory. In the mighty name of Jesus, amen!
🙏 If you’ve never given your life to Jesus, pray this with faith:
Lord Jesus, I acknowledge that I need You. I believe You died for my sins and that You rose again. Today I open the door of my heart to You. Become my Lord, transform my life, and form Your character in me. Amen.
- 1 John 2:14 – Young men, you are strong, and the Word of God abides in you.
- Galatians 4:19 – Until Christ is formed in you…
- 1 Peter 5:5 – You who are young, be subject to the elders.
- Matthew 8:8–9 – Just say the word, for I too am under authority.
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