#WordForTodayDevotional
Sunday September 24, 2023
RECEIVE YOUR HEALING (2): BY THE ANOINTING OIL
Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
James 5:15 (KJV)
The ways of Yahweh are surely higher than our ways (see Isaiah 55:9). Finite human mind sometimes wants to understand the omniscience of Yahweh and that is what most times short-circuits him from the power of Yahweh. It is obedience to the Word of Yahweh that commands results to the believer not trying to figure Yahweh out. Yahweh may not be making sense to your little sense but His power is activated upon obedience to that seemingly nonsense instruction. The Anointing Oil is a medium through which the Holy Spirit flows to touch lives. Yahweh commands prophets to administer this mystery of the Anointing Oil and upon obedience, the Spirit of Yahweh comes upon the object and consecrates it. In the Old Testament, the Anointing Oil was specially formulated according to Yahweh’s instruction in Exodus 30:22-38. No other person is permitted to make such formulation or use it. Upon anything that the Holy Anointing Oil comes, it consecrates, setting it apart for Yahweh’s use. In I Samuel 16:13 the Word says, ‘Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.’ It was the oil that Prophet Samuel poured on David but upon that oil coming in contact with David, the Spirit of the Lord came upon him.
