I have in my mind a minister who said, “I have heart disease, I can’t preach more than once a week,” so he had a colleague to preach for him once a week and do the visiting. He was an old minister and couldn’t do any visiting. He had heard of the anointing of power, and he said, “I would like to be anointed for my burial.
I would like before I go hence to preach the gospel once with power He prayed that God would fill him with the spirit, and I met him not long after that, and he said, “I have preached on an average eight times a week, and I have had conversions all along.” The spirit came on him. I don’t believe that man broke down at first with hard work, so much as with using the machinery without oil, without lubrication.
It is not the hard work which breaks down ministers, but it is the toil of working without power. Oh, that God may anoint His people! Not the ministry only, but every disciple.—MOODY.