The experience of most Christians is that we are like leaking buckets. When God fills us, through a meeting or a weekend away or an amazing series, or a church service or any encounter with God, we are full of his glory for a while, but it does not take long and then we are back to where we started, or at least we have lost some of the zeal. But God’s plan for us is not like that. He says we should experience it differently, in fact we should be going from glory to glory. There should be consistency in the Christian life – we do not have to have a yo-yo experience.
God is not the one who comes and goes in my life. There are times when I perceive His presence more strongly than at other times. God does not give the joy or the anointing or the glory to me and then withdraw it again. God does not withdraw from us. The gifts and the calling of the Lord are without repentance. God is always transmitting the anointing in my life. But my experience of that is not always consistent.
Andrew Womack says it is not God who determines how much of healing or blessing or anointing he is going to give. It is always up to us as to the level of this that we actually receive. He says the transmitters of heaven are beaming 24 hours a day. He speaks about how we as Christians pray for revival, and we implore God to send His revival. And then when it does not happen we think it is God who does not want us to have revival.
So we pray to God and say please fix your transmitter as if God does not want us to have blessing or revival. There is no need to plead with God if we understand that it is not God who is holding back his joy and his anointing and his blessing. We make choices that stop us from receiving and manifesting these promises.
If I am a leaking vessel, it is because I have wrong thinking.