Read "The Lightning Anointing" a new article from Paul L. Cox
Friends,
Below is a new article from Paul L. Cox.
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The Lightning Anointing
On July 20, 2025, the last day of the Utilization of Spiritual Gifts school at Awake Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, I arrived at the church on Sunday afternoon to begin the session. Dawn Bray shared that she had seen an angel during the church service that morning, of which I’d been unaware; it was an angel surrounded by lightning. She sensed that the Lord refers to this angel as the Matthew 28 angel:
And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it. His countenance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow. Matthew 28:2-3 (NKJV)
Towards the end of the school, the Lord took us into a heavenly place where several of the saints from the cloud of witnesses were standing. I began feeling tremendous waves of power and sensed that the Lord wanted to place new anointings on us. At some point, I became aware of spiritual lightning strikes hitting us; followed by waves and waves of power began surging on us.
I remembered a similar experience from around 1994, when I felt a pressure on my head that lasted for a few seconds and then restarted a few minutes later. This cycle continued for almost three days. Then on a Wednesday evening I conducted a youth group meeting and felt led to lay hands on a teenage boy. Standing up, I placed my hands on the boy’s hands, and the power of God struck us. We both fell to the floor with waves and waves of God’s power flowing over us, and one new believer was plastered to the bricks of the fireplace with a startled look on his face. It was as if the Lord had been downloading power on me for those three days and suddenly unlocked it on that Wednesday evening for the young people.
Contemplating what the Lord was doing in our current meeting, I reflected back on that experience and realized that it had been spiritual lightning strikes of anointing power coming on me. I wondered if that power was associated with the Angel of the Lord who was present at the resurrection of our Lord. To me, it is probable that this Angel of the Lord is one of His two personal attendants and may have a role in the Kingdom of God to release the mighty power of God on the earth. I also realized that we must be close to His throne.:
And from the throne proceeded lightnings, thunderings, and voices. Seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. Before the throne there was a sea of glass, like crystal. And in the midst of the throne, and around the throne, were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back. Revelation 4:5–6 NKJV
Dawn suggested that people were to receive the anointing of those saints in the heavenly places, and we perceived that each person was to walk down a spiritual corridor. At this point, I was feeling continual spiritual lightning strikes hitting me and understood that I was to lay hands on each person. The power of God fell on us and wave after wave of His glory flooded over us. Our topic of discussion had been spiritual gifts, but now the Lord wanted us to understand the power of the Giver of the gifts. The lightning strikes lasted over one hour as we worshiped and experienced the manifest presence of our God.
The Apostle Paul really did mean what he said in I Corinthians 2:1-4:
“And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.”
Yes, Lord, we want to know [experience] You and the Power of Your resurrection.[1]
Below is a testimony from an attendee:
Paul,
I wanted to thank you in person for your beautiful ministry among us these two weekends but you were quite busy this evening talking to others. As I mentioned to you last weekend, God had spoken to me that He would be changing my paradigm through the Spiritual Gifts seminar. That He has done! I can say that most of what happened these weekends was not so much about “information” related to the spiritual gifts, but rather God opened up an entirely new spiritual reality by being in your presence and in the presence of so many people in the group who are so spiritually gifted and mature in their understanding of what you were presenting. As you mentioned to me the first Saturday when we spoke briefly, I will plan to persevere in growing as a fruitful member of the Body of Christ. Today during the ministry time as you laid your hands on me, I believe God spoke to me that He would be showing me more but would bypass my understanding in so doing. I’m hopeful there will be resources at Awake Church with whom I can walk side by side in my learning process.
Thank you, Paul, for your kindness to me in answering questions in my emails. Thank you for sharing so many of your experiences with us that demonstrated God’s faithfulness to you and to those you are mentoring. I trust you will have a safe journey home.
Warmly in Christ…
[1] Philippians 3:10
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