How to Place a Demand on the Anointing

At our recent Rise of AI Summit, Dr. Faisal was teaching on the woman with the issue of blood (Mark 5:28), when suddenly, I was gripped by the Holy Spirit. What began as a quiet stirring turned into a wave of divine conviction—I felt a travail come over me, and tears filled my eyes.

I tried to stay focused on the message, but inside, something was breaking open.
I whispered in my heart, “Lord, what is happening to me?”

Then the Spirit revealed it with piercing clarity:

The woman with the issue of blood was a Jew. She already believed in God the Father.
But in that moment, she believed that Jesus was sent by the Father.
She believed He was the Son of God.
And because of that belief, she did what no one else dared—
She pressed through the crowd. She reached for His garment. She placed a demand on His anointing.

Her faith wasn’t just desperate—it was directed.
She didn’t just hope for healing.
She believed in the One the Father had sent, and in doing so, she aligned herself with heaven’s order.
She touched the hem of His garment, and virtue flowed.

And that’s when the second wave of revelation hit me.

“How often have we failed to recognize the ones the Father has sent to us?”

We say we believe in Jesus. We say we want His power, His presence, His voice.
But then we ignore the very vessels He’s chosen to use.
We minimize them. We grow familiar. We stop drawing from them.

We’re like the people in Jesus’ hometown—surrounded by the Anointed One, yet receiving nothing because we refuse to honor who He truly is and what He carries.

We look at those in spiritual authority over us and see them as “just people.”
We get used to their voice, their style, their stories.
We say things like, “Oh, that’s just Pastor So-and-So,” or “Yeah, I’ve heard this message before.”

But here’s what the Holy Spirit showed me in that moment:

Familiarity is not just dishonor. It’s spiritual blindness.
It is a subtle, dangerous apathy that makes us poorer, weaker, and ineffective in the Kingdom.

We have stopped placing a demand.
We have stopped seeing the gifts that God has placed in our midst.
And as a result, we’re not just missing sermons—we’re missing the flow of heaven itself.

Why the Anointing Doesn’t Flow

Jesus had the Spirit without measure. He raised the dead, cast out demons, performed miracle after miracle.

Yet when He entered His hometown, the Bible says He “could do no mighty works there”—not because the anointing wasn’t present, but because the people were too familiar. They didn’t honor Him. They didn’t believe He was sent.

Instead they saw him simply as ‘Joseph’s son’. (Luke 4:22) They could not see Him as the son of God because to them,  he was Mary and Joseph’s boy. They had watched him grow up on the dusty roads of Nazareth. Their children had likely played in the streets with him and attended the Synagogue with him. They thought they knew everything about him. They were familiar with Jesus and it blinded them to seeing Him as He truly was – the Son of God. The One who the Father had sent to heal and deliver them from the ravages of sin.

Because they could not receive Him as God’s Son, they could not receive that which the Son had come to give them.

Now compare that to the woman with the issue of blood. She had no special access, no audience with Jesus, no religious title. But she had revelation.
She believed He was sent by the Father. She believed that if she could just touch his garment, she would be healed. And because of that, she reached out with bold, humble faith.

And power flowed.

Jesus said in Matthew 10:40–41:

“Whoever receives you receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”
“Whoever receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward…”

This is not a quaint Bible verse.
This is a Kingdom principle.

God sends people into our lives—leaders, pastors, spiritual authorities—not to control us, but to serve us with what He’s placed on them.
They carry something we need. They are part of the supply line of heaven.

But we need to receive them as the ones that the Father has sent to us to lead us, to equip us and to build us up. We need to receive the ‘sent ones’ in order to receive from them. As the scripture explains, if we only receive them as friends, we’ll get the reward of friendship. If we honor them as those sent by the Father, we receive the reward of the anointing they carry.

Let me say this plainly:
Many in the Body of Christ are spiritually dry not because God isn’t speaking, but because they’ve stopped receiving the ones He’s sent.

We say we want revival, but we ignore the prophetic voice He’s already positioned among us.
We say we want healing, but we scoff at our pastor’s imperfections.
We say we want power, but we refuse to submit to the ones He has sent and set over us in the Body of Christ.

The woman with the issue of blood wasn’t playing games. She was desperate. When she heard about Jesus, she believed in Him. She saw Jesus not just as a man, but as the One sent from the Father.
And because she believed, she placed a demand on Him, and healing power flowed.

We are invited to do the same.

It is time for us to embrace honor again. It’s time to recognise those whom God has sent to us to help us and lead us. It’s time to humble ourselves and turn from the sin of familiarity which has made the us apathetic and powerless. It’s time to come into God’s House with faith and expectation and place a fresh demand on the anointing our leaders carry—not because of their charisma, but because of their calling.

Now is the time to place a demand on the anointing.
Now is the time to honor the ones He has sent.
Now is the time to receive the reward.