ANOINTED

As I read in the book of Psalms I cam across the word anointed. I have read this word many times and have heard people throw the word around a lot. I never really knew what it meant. So I decided today to research what the word actually means. I found out that the word "anoint" means to pour oil on a person's head. Anointed means that God's Spirit was selecting that person do a special job.

So how do we know when were are truly anointed to do a special job or when we are really just following our own will. I hear people say all the time that they were anointed to speak in the church or to minister to others. How do they know they were really anointed to do such a thing? Who makes this determiniation. How do we really know God's Spirit is selecting a person to do a certain thing? I sometimes wonder if we are following our hearts desire and not the will of God. We know that the will of God will not lead us astray. We know that if we follow His will through His word than we cannot do wrong, but how do we know that we have been anointed and that it is God's will for us to do a certain job or duty? Hmmm....these are things that I ponder from time to time. What keeps us from following our selfish desires and disguising them as being anointed or the will of God?