Have you ever wondered what people feel when they walk into your home? Most importantly, how your family feels? Every home has a certain feeling attached to it. For example if you invite the Holy Spirit into your home you will fill your home with all the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control (Galatians 5:22-23). This is important to the overall atmosphere of your home when you are married, have kids, and are serving others.
Anointing your home is a physical act of giving your home over to the Lord and blessing your dwelling place. The anointing oil represents the blood of Jesus and the presence of the Holy Spirit. In order to give your home over to the Lord, you must first welcome the Holy Spirit into your home in prayer for His presence to dwell in your home. “Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit's leading in every part of our lives.” Galatians 5:25 NLT
How do we anoint our homes and welcome the holy spirit to come flood our homes and fill the atmosphere with His glory?
1. To anoint your home you will need some anointing oil, any essential oil or any olive oil of your choice will work. Please know that anointing and prayer is about your faith and allowing the holy spirit to guide you. There's nothing magical or powerful about the oil itself. “Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it and all its furnishings, and it will be holy.” Exodus 40:9
2. Pray over the oil (consecrate it)
Start from the front door and pray that all who enter your home will be sanctified and leave all impurities outside the door and that all will “come in peace and go out in joy” (Isaiah 55:12 NIV).
3. Pray out loud in every room and invite the Holy Spirit to fill every inch of your home. Give your rooms, your home, and everything in it over to him, pray that only His will be done, and that everything that is said and done in your home will be pleasing to him. This is a way of dedicating your home to God.
4. Bless the beds of your children and bedrooms and declare that the rooms will be a place of true rest and pleasant sleep. Pray that every head that lays on the beds will lose worry and gain sweet rest and sleep. “For he gives sleep to his beloved” (Psalm 127:2).
5. As you pray in and over each room Place a small portion of oil on the frame of every door in your home. Do this by faith, believing and receiving God’s supernatural protection over your home and family. Rebuke the power of darkness and any attempt of the enemy against your home and family. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you and guide you to remove anything that may represent evil from your home and any form of entertainment that does not honor God. This can be books, movies, clothing with certain pictures or symbols, or objects that have connection to wrong spirits. You may even have to remove music from your electronics, such as computers, phones, or iPads, and clean them from anything on it that would not please God.
6. Pray over your home to cast out any evil spirits and demonic activity and then finish knowing that your home is now anointed and sanctified for the Lord.
Here are a few more Bible verses about anointing your home:.
Genesis 28:18
Isaiah 54:17
2 corinthians 10:3-5
Luke 10:19
Ephesians 6:10-18
Exodus 30:31
Mark 11:22-25
2 corinthians 10:4
Exodus 25:6
Romans 8:15
John 10:10
2 Timothy 1:7
Mark 16:17
John 14:27