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WELCOME TO GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING

THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE:  OIL FROM ONE VESSEL

An empty vessel is one that is ready to be filled. What you pour into the vessel is what will come out of the vessel. Sometimes a vessel needs to be emptied of what it carries in order to be filled with something else.

We are like those vessels. We empty our lives of the things of the world and ask God to fill us with his Spirit. As time goes by, we allow the world to creep back in or we pour out the love of God that he has placed within us and it is time to get refilled. Revival used to be about searching our hearts and making sure that we empty our lives of the things that are keeping the power of God from flowing in our lives. We need to ask God to help us to get rid of our selfishness, our pride, our distractions from doing His will.

Lam 3:40-41 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

Soul searching is necessary and so is worship. Our worship helps us to strengthen our connection to God. By emptying our lives, we make room for God to refill us with his Spirit again. This will give us his anointing to help others find their path to Jesus. We will have fresh anointing to pour out on the hurt and depressed; the broken.  But we have to be willing to empty the space.

We came to know Jesus because someone else had emptied their life from the cares of this world and took the time to pour out some of the anointing of Jesus that they carried. It is time to pay it forward and find empty vessels in which to share Jesus.

Psalm 139: 23-24 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

It is easy for us to get side tracked by our flesh. Not everything that distracts us is necessarily a bad thing. But too much distraction leaves us empty and void of God’s presence in our lives. We drift too far from him and have to pray for him to draw us close in his arms and refill us with his presence.

Jer 29:12-13 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

We have to desire his presence in our lives. As the older saints used to say, we must stay prayed up. I think that was their way of saying, keep their lives clear of the wrong things and full of God’s presence.

Jesus filled the body with his anointing; also referred to as the oil of anointing or the Holy Ghost. From one vessel, many have been filled.

When I think about empty vessels I am reminded of the story of the widow who was about to lose everything. Her sons were about to be taken as bondmen to work off her debt. Elisha asked her what she had in her house. She told him she didn’t have anything but a pot of oil.

He told her to go to the neighbors and borrow lots of vessels. When she had them to go inside and shut the door. He told her to pour out oil into all the vessels.  She went in and filled all the empty vessels from one full vessel.

Notice she had to go inside and shut the door. Like we need to get into a quiet place with God. She was able from one vessel to fill many. Just as we are able to pour out Jesus to others when we are full of his anointing. But if we allow ourselves to get down to the point we have little or no oil, we will not have the strength to help anyone else or help ourselves.

Being surrounded by his presence and filling ourselves with his word helps us stay connected. So that we will always be in a position to help someone else on their faith walk. We will always be ready to pour out the precious oil that we as believers to share.

Until next time,

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

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