Niels Prip – Blog

Many pastors use the internet as a tool for their Sunday sermons. They can get ideas and even outlines to simplify their preaching. I myself use an online Bible. While this can be helpful, there needs to be caution. If they move away from seeking the Lord in private and studying the scriptures in depth for themselves, they move away from getting the unction and the anointing. Acts 6:4 says “But select from among you, brethren, seven men of good reputation, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this task. But we will devote ourselves to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.”

We have progressed even further. You can now use AI online to generate a sermon for you. If you want to skip time alone, seeking the Lord, you can. You can tell AI that you want a sermon on a specific topic and that you want it to be four pages long, and it will generate it for you in seconds. This will never be a replacement for seeking the Lord and learning His ways. But we live in an age of convenience. Many will go this route.

Leonard Ravenhill, in his book Why Revival Tarries says the following. ” The tragedy of this late hour is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people. Oh! The horror of it. There is a strange thing I have seen “under the sun”, even in the fundamentalist circles; it is preaching without unction. What is unction? I hardly know. But I know what it is not (or at least I know when it is not upon my own soul). Preaching without unction kills instead of giving life. The unctionless preacher is a savor of death unto death. The Word does not live unless the unction is upon the preacher. “Preacher, with all thy getting-get unction”. This was written in 1959.

The are so many churches to choose from, so many pastors. So many so called prophets. So many online sermons, so many books! So many teachers, so many videos. It is a glut of information, how much of it has unction (anointing)? I urge you to be cautious about what you let into your heart and soul, let all things be judged by the Word. Let us seek the Lord in our closets, otherwise we are in peril. If you are in ministry, devote yourself to the word and to seeking Him thru prayer.