Conversion Versus Religion

By: Gladys Raquel Hernández


The genuine conversion to christianity is the result of the full conviction about the existence of the Unique Living God carried out by the power of the Holy Spirit through His Divine touch called “anointing” and who reveals Jesus Christ, the Savior, to our hearts. The word “anointing” comes from the greek word “Chrisma” = Charisma, which means to rub, to cover with oil. This word gives the idea of a shadow which covers us. The idea of this word is that the Holy Spirit covers us with His traits, qualities and virtues. When the anointing comes to us is when God rubs us and anoints us with the Holy Spirit´s personality. In other words, it is His personality that covers us with His virtues, character and power.

We can view what Jesus tells His disciples as regards the Holy Spirit´s Work, through the following biblical verses:

“But I tell you that I am going to do what is best for you. That is why I am going away. The Holy Spirit cannot come to help you until I leave. But after I am gone, I will send the Spirit to you. The Spirit will come and show the people of this world the truth about sin and God´s justice and the judgment. The Spirit will show them that they are wrong about sin, because they didn´t have faith in me. They are wrong about God´s justice, because I am going to the Father, and you won´t see me again. And they are wrong about the judgment, because God has already judged the ruler of this world”. (John 16:7-11)

“The Spirit shows what is true and will come and guide you into the full truth. The Spirit doesn´t speak on his own. He will tell you only what he has heard from me, and he will let you know what is going to happen. The Spirit will bring glory to me by taking my message and telling it to you. Everything that the Father has is mine. That is why I have said that the Spirit takes my message and tells it to you”. (John 16:13-15)

Pursuant to these biblical verses, we can be completely sure and self-confident that the Holy Spirit is among us here on earth and lives into those people who look for Him with all their hearts.

The Holy Spirit reveals Himself to our lives and invites us to open our sincere hearts to Him so that He can enter and live into us forever. The one who accepts Him, will start feeling inside the marvelous flow of His Spirit, who will manifest Himself in any special way that each human being will identify as such. Thus, the individual will become a supernatural being through the marvelous anointing spilt over him, as his Creator will make him perceive this and therefore, He will convince the individual about this. That is, it is a strictly personal relationship with each individual wherein other people do not take part.

Jesus Himself was anointed, chosen and sent to tell the oppressed the good news, to heal the brokenhearted and to announce freedom for prisoners and captives, to show kindness to us and punish our enemies, to comfort those who mourn, to give them flowers in place of their sorrow, olive oil in place of tears and joyous praise in place of broken hearts (Isaiah 61:1-3). That is, Jesus was anointed and trained in order to supply all our needs.

The Word “Christian” means “anointed person” and all the christians have the same anointing as Jesus in different measures. The preaching of God´s Word without anointing, hardens, dries, irritates, kills everything, is boring, makes us sleep and look for another thing to do. This is the result that causes the pursuit and following of a religion, that is, the repetition of words and concepts as a routine, in a mechanized way and done by heart. The individual has neither discernment nor revelation of God´s Word. Thus, he can neither encounter his Creator nor have intimate communion with Him effectively.

God´s Word´s tradition steals effect to the real value of the Word. Therefore, sometimes the christian is lost and diverts himself from Jesus´s doctrine (His correct teaching) (1º Timothy 4:6). It is necessary to be acquainted with the Sacred Scriptures deeply in order to understand how God is and what He demands from us, His children, if we have accepted Jesus as our Savior.

Despite this, God´s power is present everywhere but it is not always activated. That is to say, we cannot always view results with our eyes. Likewise, it is proper to stand out that incredulity and disbelief do not allow God´s power to flow through people. The anointing is like electricity which flows through wire and the anointing´s purpose is to heal, to restore, to train, to sanctify and to take honor and glory to our Lord, Jesus.

“The Spirit will bring glory to me by taking my message and telling it to you”. (John 16:14)

Furthermore, every single believer should receive a fresh anointing frequently so as to become an efficient Christ´s soldier and to be able to fight well.

We should consider the following biblical verses wherein the apostle Paul refers to his labor within his evangelization ministry to the gentiles (non-Jewish people) and the way all of us can work in different ministries, by also fighting well and being faithful until Jesus´s return:

“I have fought well. I have finished the race, and I have been faithful. So, a crown will be given to me for pleasing the Lord. He judges fairly, and on the day of judgment he will give a crown to me and to everyone else who wants him to appear with power”. (2º Timothy 4:7-8)

AMEN!!!