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Before we touch on the anointing oil, let me just tell you this.
There will be those of you who will think: "Pastor Prince, isn't this very strange?
Anointing oil?
You know, is it superstition?
Isn't this something in the Old Testament?"
Well, let me tell you something.
I used to think that way too.
I thought oil was actually only a symbol of the Holy Spirit.
And that is true.
But God never despises the means of the symbol.
Amen?
God can anoint the tokens that symbolise what His power is all about.
Are you listening, people?
Let me just say this: It is not just the Old Testament.
New Testament scripture also talks about the anointing oil.
In Mark 6:12-13, Jesus disciples "went out and preached that people should repent.
And they cast out many demons, and anointed with" what?
Oil.
Now, Jesus was with them during that time.
And yet, they went around anointing the sick with?
Oil.
"Pastor, why?"
Don't ask me why.
If they did it, they got results.
What's the result?
"healed them."
The sick were healed!
Were they healed?
Wherever the oil came, sickness turned into health.
Are you listening?
By the way, this is the New Testament!
So even after Jesus died, and Jesus went back to Heaven already, and the church age has
begun, you still find the same principle in James 5.
In James 5:14-15, it says "Is anyone among you sick?
Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him
with" what?
Oil.
This is the church age!
It is no longer the Old Testament!
It is the church age!
"anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up.
And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven."
Are you listening, people?
We are in the church age.
And they use oil.
And some people think they are too smart to use oil.
"No, I'll just pray in my heart, in my room and all that."
That is why you don't get results.
And the prophet said to Naaman the leper: "Dip yourself 7 times."
So imagine.
One time, I look stupid.
Two times, what am I doing?
Three times, everybody is laughing at me.
Four times, I feel really dumb.
And finally, on the seventh time, the Bible says: "His flesh became like a child's."
I'll take that anytime.
If God tells me to shout before the walls come down, I'll do it!
If Jesus says: "Put out the boat even though you haven't caught anything the whole night."
If Jesus said it, I'll do it.
If He says, anoint it with oil, I'll do it!
It's not the oil people, it is what it symbolises.
Can I have a good amen?
Amen?
I asked the Lord personally, I said: "Lord, can you give me a word for the people?"
I preached on the anointing oil before.
"Just give us a word that we all know for sure that You want us to use this anointing
oil during this time."
Amen?
So I asked Him for a word.
And He told me: "Son, go to Psalm 91."
I said: "Lord, Psalm 91 doesn't have the word 'oil'."
One thing I would advice you all to do is this: Never tell the Lord about what His word
contains or what is in His word.
So the Lord said: "Go to my word in Psalm 91."
And I said: "There is nothing there!"
I am about to show you something very interesting about the Hebrew language.
Okay?
First and foremost, I am going to show you the word "oil" in Hebrew.
It is the word: "shemem".
Like Gethsemane.
Geth is the press, either for wine or olives.
Shemem is oil.
Gethsemane is "oil press"— where Jesus was pressed, amen?
Now, this is the word for oil in Hebrew.
Reading from right to left, now say after me: "shin", "mem" and "nun".
Now look at "nun", you are seeing it in it's final form.
When it is at the end of the word, it becomes a longer letter.
Okay?
"Shemem".
It is still "nun".
Got it?
Okay, it is just the final form.
These are little intricacies of the Hebrew letter.
Now memorise it again.
Go back to "shemem".
"Shin", "mem", "nun".
Got it?
The Lord says: "It is in Psalm 91."
So I looked at Psalm 91, I don't see it Lord.
And He told me where to find it.
And I looked and I am telling you the truth.
This is what the Lord showed me.
In Psalm 91:9-10 "Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge, Even the Most High,
your dwelling place."
Before I show you the revelation, I need to say that the first mention of the word "oil"
is very important.
The first mention of oil— Do you know where is it?
In Genesis, when Jacob left his house, he was afraid his brother would kill him.
Remember that?
He took his brother's birthright.
And he fled from his house, he ended up in a place known as "Bethel" which meant House
of God.
And he took some stones and he slept on the stones, okay?
While he was sleeping, he had a dream.
And the Lord spoke to him.
Don't forget, he just cheated his father, deceived his father and cheated his brother.
Morally, he wasn't in a good place.
And yet, God was a God of grace to him.
Undeserved favor.
So whenever you find the Bible saying the "God of Jacob" instead of the "God of Israel",
it is always a phrase denoting His grace.
The "God of Jacob" shall defend you.
The "God of Jacob" shall help you.
He is the God of grace.
So, Jacob had a dream.
And God came to him and said: "I will keep you and preserve you wherever you go.
I will bless your seed and your generations.
I will provide for you."
It is all "I will", "I will", "I will".
Unconditional promises from God.
He had a dream of a ladder that went to Heaven.
Amen?
And He saw angels going up and down.
Later on, when Jesus came in John 1, you will find Jesus saying: "Hereafter, you will see
the Son of Man, and angels ascending and descending upon Him."
Jesus is Jacob's ladder.
The connection to Heaven.
So He had a dream.
And then, He woke up and said: "Wow, how awesome is this place.
This is the house of God."
That is why Jacob called it "bethel".
Beth means "house" and el means "God."
Amen?
This is the House of God.
And do you know what he did?
He took oil and anointed the pillar of stone that he slept on.
And he anointed the head of that pillar.
So the first time "oil" is mentioned is here.
And everytime the Bible mentions something for the first time, there is something significant.
You see oil tied up with the House of God.
Do you see it?
Oil tied up with the House of God.
Amen?
Now, you're ready.
Go to Psalm 91:9-10 "Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge, Even the Most
High, your dwelling place," The dwelling place is the House of God.
Where do you find the oil?
In the House of God.
Where do you find all the promises of God?
"I will provide for you, I will preserve you, I will keep you?"
In the House of God.
The House of God today is not bricks and stones.
The House of God is not a building.
The House of God is you and I coming together!
Like my wife says: "Wait for the corporate anointing."
Amen?
She wants the anointing oil bottles to be prayed over corporately.
Amen?
That's what we're going to do in a whiles time.
So, the House of God is tied up with the anointing of God.
That's where you find angels coming up and down.
Amen?
Angels are freely moving about among us right now.
That is why it is a great place to be— not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together,
amen?
And that is where "No evil shall befall you, Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;"
Dwelling, again.
Because you have made the House of God your dwelling place.
Are you ready for the revelation?
Got it?
Now, there is something called "Bible Code".
Many years ago, the Religious Institute of Statistical Sciences published the "Bible
Code".
And they are not Christian nor a Jewish organization.
It is a scientific journal.
And they published the accuracy of the number of Rabbis down through history who could find
their names, their date of birth, death, the place that they were in all in a cluster.
And this is how Bible Code works.
Let's say, your name is MARY.
You'll start from the first letter.
Find the first letter "M".
But from then on, you have to be consistent.
Find the next "A".
Okay?
1,2,3,4,5.
"A".
The next letter "R" cannot be 3 letters after.
It has to be 5 letters apart.
It has to be equidistant.
Got it?
So you find the next letter "R".
1,2,3,4,5.
Final letter?
"Y".
It has got to be the next 5 letters.
1,2,3,4,5.
Got it?
So you will form the word "MARY".
Got it?
It's called Bible Codes.
And many a times, we read the Bible superficially.
But even within the Bible, there are codes.
The Bible is like a hologram.
Within, there are layers and layers.
Amen?
Now, what is the word again?
"Shemem" for oil.
"Shin", "mem", "nun".
Three letters.
Okay?
The Lord told me that it is Psalm 91.
And I looked it up.
Let us look at the interlinear, the Hebrew version of Psalm 91:9.
"Because you have made the Lord my refuge, the Most High, your dwelling place (thy habitation)."
Can you find the first letter "shin"?
There it is!
Can you find "mem"?
1,2,3 "mem".
Can you find "nun"?
1,2,3 "nun".
It is in intervals of 3!
Now, men didn't put this in.
I couldn't find this.
I didn't hear this and read this anywhere.
The Lord spoke to me and said: "Son, the oil is there."
It is like when you put the oil on something, it is like the House of God.
And that is why, "no evil shall befall you, and no plague will come near your dwelling."
In practical ways, are you listening?
Now lift the anointing oil before the Lord.
Once again, the oil is just oil okay?
But under the blessing, and under the anointing of the Lord, it becomes anointing oil.
Holy.
Holy means consecrated.
Separated for a holy purpose.
Amen?
And what is holy, the devil cannot touch.
The devil deals with things that are dirty, unclean, where the mark of sin is on it.
We all want wholeness.
Dis ease is something that is not natural.
Got never meant for men to be diseased.
God always wanted men to be whole.
Holy is the word complete.
Set apart is special.
That is what is going to happen to this anointing oil that you are holding up right now in the
name of Jesus.
And remember this, as we pray together in the name of Jesus, the anointing of God is
going to come on that anointing oil.
Now just pray in the Spirit for a while.
Now as you lift the anointing oil, remember this: Before oil can become oil, it has to
be crushed.
That's what happened to Jesus.
In Gethsemane, He was crushed.
The oil came out.
And even back then, when the oil was used, it's first primary usage was to light the
Menorah in the temple.
And Jesus was crushed in darkness in Gethsemane to bring light in our darkness.
The second crushing of the olive press in Jesus' time was used for medicine.
After that, Jesus was crushed further.
His back was lacerated and with His stripes, we are healed.
The third crushing of the olive press in Jesus' time was used for soap and cleansing.
At the cross, He was further crushed under the weight of our judgment for our sins.
He suffered in our place and we received cleansing for all our sins.
Amen?
Forgiveness through Jesus blood.
The same for the wine, the same for the bread.
You can't get bread just from the wheat fields.
You can't get wine just from the vineyard.
No, it has to be crushed.
The bread had to be pounded, punched, torn apart, kneaded and then baked in a fire.
That's what happened to our Lord Jesus.
And the wine had to be trodden on and stepped on.
That's what happened to Jesus, our wonderful Jesus.
How He loves you.
How He loves me.
And now, this oil represents that.
You can't get anointing oil just from olive trees.
It has to be crushed.
And that's what happened to Jesus.
And friend, as you look to Him right now, I'm going to pray for you right now in the
name of Jesus.
Father, in the name of Jesus, we lift up this oil before you Lord.
And in and of itself, it is just oil.
But we ask you in the name of Jesus, Father, anoint this oil, anoint the oil that we are
holding in our hands Father, and make it Lord, the holy anointing oil, consecrated for your
purposes, Father.
Destined, Lord, to bring glory to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Father, we ask in Jesus name, wherever this oil is applied, Father we ask that sickness
will turn into wholeness and health and life, and even the dead will be raised Father.
In the name of Jesus, we ask Lord that whenever this oil is applied, failure will turn to
success.
Barrenness will turn into fruitfulness, Lord.
We pray that wherever it is applied, Lord, we pray in the name of Jesus, in the darkness
there will be light that comes forth, and it will spring forth speedily Lord.
And whereever it is applied Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank You that there is
protection.
There is provision.
And there is restoration.
In the name of Jesus.
And Father glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.
Not the oil, but glorify the Lord Jesus Christ wherever this oil is applied, Father.
In the name of Jesus we ask, and all the people said?
Amen.
Now, you can start by putting just a drop of the anointing oil on your forehead.
You can make a cross if you want, or you can just dip it on your forehead.
If you have a condition in your body, alright?
When you are home and all that, you can apply it on your body.
There's a growth or whatever.
Apply it.
And see what happens after that.
I have so many testimonies of people who see the growth either shrink or disappear, amen?
And thank God.
There's a verse that says in Isaiah 10 "The yoke.
The satanic yoke, whatever bondage it is, sickness, depression, will be destroyed because
of the anointing."
Now real quick, if you have someone that you love who is not a believer, or is in bondage,
and doesn't know he is in bondage, you can put it on his pillow.
You can put it on his clothes.
We have testimonies of people whose loved ones turned around and the Lord touched them.
Amen?