Preaching with the anointing of the Spirit is one of the greatest experiences I have ever had. There have been too many times I'm afraid I didn't; but when it is there - it is both a blessing to the preacher and the listener. "The Anointing" is difficult to explain, but as one African-American preacher said, "You may not be able to define it, but you know when you have." Aman.
This is what Charles Spurgeon dubbed “the sacred anointing.” It is power from on high.
I like the following "definition" of it by Tony Sargent in this book on the preaching of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Sacred Annointing, He writes:
[Unction] is the afflatus of the Spirit resting on the speaker. It is the preacher gliding on eagles’ wings, soaring high, swooping low, carrying and being carried along by a dynamic other than his own. His consciousness of what is happening is not obliterated. He is not in a trance. He is being worked on but is aware that he is still working. He is being spoken through but he knows he is still speaking. The words are his but the facility with which they come compels him to realise that the source is beyond himself. The man is overwhelmed. He is on fire.
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