Enjoying the Oil of Gladness.

07 Dec Enjoying the Oil of Gladness.

🎯For those who love righteousness and hate wickedness, God promises them anointment of oil of gladness more than their companions.

💥Indeed, the Scripture says, “You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.”

🎯Oil has many uses such as in cooking, as well as many spiritual uses such as healing and anointing of people to set them apart for God’s work or anointing to destroy the yoke.

🎯Oil is important in many ways but there is a particular one called the Oil of Joy or the Oil of Gladness, which turns sorrow into joy.

🎯Isaiah spoke glowingly about it: “ To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.”

🎯As the Scripture shows the Oil of Gladness is available but we have to reach out to get it, like the woman with the issue of blood did by breaking through the crowd to touch the helm of Jesus’ garment; or like Blind Bartimaeus cried out to get Jesus’s attention.

🎯There is so much God wants to do for us. For example by moving us from the position of receiving solutions to solving the problems of others.

💥But in addition to surrendering to Him and obeying Him, we have to reach out through prayers to enjoy the Oil of Gladness.

– From a sermon by Pastor EA Adeboye on the second day of RCCG Annual Holy Ghost Congress, yesterday.