Oil of gladness

Psalm 45 vs 7 says You love righteousness and hate wickedness ;Therefore God ,your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness more than your companions .

The plan of God for you and your family is a good one. Jeremiah 29 vs 11 says For I know the plans I have for you , “declares the Lord , “plans to prosper you and not to harm you , plans to give you hope and a future . Psalms 40 vs 5 says Many, O Lord my God , are the wonders you have done. The things you planned for us no one can recount to you ;were I to speak and tell of them , they would be too many to declare . According to John 10 vs 10 , the reason why Jesus came to this world is to give you abundant life both on earth and in heaven. His plans is to set you high above all the nations on earth- Deuteronomy 28 vs 1 and in whatever thing you lay our hands on He wants you to be the head and not the tail, only above and not underneath . That is why I am happy because if you are the tail now , you are going to be the head ,if you are the head then you will continue to be the head in Jesus mighty name.

According to Psalm 45 vs 7 , the Most High God is the one who anoints with the oil of gladness. David says in Psalm 23 vs 5 that You (God) anointed my head with oil , and my cup overflows. Acts 10 vs 38 says how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil because God was with him.1John 2 vs 20 says But you have an anointing from the Holy One , and all of you know the truth. The only One who anoints with the oil of gladness is God. The function of anointing oil is to break yokes , Isaiah 10 vs 27 says it shall come to pass in that day that his burden will be taken away from your shoulder , and his yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil. The anointing breaks the yoke . Immediately after David was anointed in 1 Samuel 16 vs 13 his story changed. Amongst his father's brethren he was considered last but after his anointing he became the first man in Israel because he was the king. Although Saul had impressive qualities and the stature of a king , he was the most handsome man in Israel - head and shoulders taller than anyone else in the land – 1 Samuel 9 vs 2 , he was only confined to the farm i.e he was a farm boy. After his anointing in 1 Samuel 10 vs 1, Saul went from an ordinary man to become the king of Israel.

One thing the oil of gladness does is it breaks yokes and every form of mourning is turned to gladness .David was able to rise from a forgotten boy in the field to a king in the palace because the oil of gladness was on him. David says in Psalm 92 vs 10 but my horn you shall exalt like the horn of a wild ox: I shall be anointed with fresh oil. Once the Lord pours the oil , every yoke is broken be it yoke of bareness, unemployment , failure at the edge of success, ancestral curses just name it. Once the oil touches you , everything causing you to mourn will be broken and you will be glad all your life. To be anointed with the oil of gladness , we need to satisfy one condition – love righteousness and hate wickedness . We need to love what the Lord loves and hate what He hates . Psalm 33 vs 5 says He (God) loves righteousness and justice ; the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. Psalm 11 vs 7 says for the Lord is righteous , he loves justice ;upright men will see his face .

To love righteousness means to love what God loves and to hate wickedness is to hate what God hates . Ephesians 5 vs 1 admonishes us to imitate God ,Matthew 5 vs 48 says be perfect , therefore as your heavenly Father is perfect . How do we imitate God ? To live in love. 1 John 4 vs 8 says whoever does not love does not know God , because God is love .Mark 12 vs 31 says and the second like it , is this : you shall love your neighbor as your self.' There is no other commandment greater than these .'  Those that live in love do not have enemies . As far as there are one or two people we do not want to see or hear their voice the bible says we are not living in love and when we do not live in love we do not know God. Love forgives , 1 Peter 4 vs 8 says and above all things have fervent love for one another , for “love covers a multitude of sins”. Love does not only forgive but it forgets , Proverbs 17 vs 9 says He who covers a transgression seeks love ,but he who repeats a matter separates friends. As a wife or husband , once we say we have forgiven we should not repeat what happened again or use it to abuse our spouses because love forgives and forgets .As far as we are in this body , people will offend us from time to time but we  should  forgive.

Every thing we do should be motivated by love . Everything Jesus did on earth was motivated by love. The healing , teaching , signs and wonders was motivated by love . Do you know that chastisement or discipline is a type of love ? Hebrews 12 vs 6 says for whom the Lord loves He chastens , and scourges every one whom He receives .Proverbs 3 vs 12 says For whom the Lord loves He corrects , just as a father the son in whom he delights. The Lord says In Revelations 3 vs 19 that As many as I love , I rebuke and chastens . Therefore be zealous and repent. As parents we are required to discipline our children and correct them in love not abuse them. Any parents who refuses to rebuke his or her child when they do wrong hates the child. When we see our friends gossiping or doing what is wrong lets be moved with love and correct them .Proverbs 13 vs 18 says poverty and shame will come to him who disdains correction , but he who regards a rebuke will be honored. Everything we do should be motivated out of love. To learn more about love we should read 1 Corinthians 13 vs 1-13 , 1 Peter 1 vs 22.

God loves humility . God is humble , Psalm 113 vs 4-6 says although the Lord is high above all nations and His glory above the heavens ,He dwells on high , yet He humbles Himself to behold the things that are in the heavens and in the earth. One of the reasons why Moses was able to see God face to face and work with God was because he was very humble. Numbers 12 vs 3 says Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the face of the earth. We have a lot to gain by been humble and a lot to loose by been proud. 1 Peter 5 vs 5b says God resist the proud but gives grace to the humble. Psalm 5 vs 5 says the boastful shall not stand in Your sight ; You hate all workers of iniquity. Luke 14 vs 1 says for whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted . Psalm 25 vs 9 says the humble He guides in justice, and the humble He teaches His ways. The Lord does not associate Himself with the pride because He hates proud people. The cost of pride is too high .

Proverbs 11 vs 2 says that when pride comes , then comes shame ;but with the humble is wisdom. Miriam (the senior sister of Moses) was one of the first prophetess in Israel , she was not only a prophetess she was a woman all the women in Israel looked up to and held in high regard . Exodus 15 vs 20 says then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron , took the timbrel in her hand, and all the went after her with timbrels and with dances. Miriam allowed pride in her heart and she began to speak against Moses because Moses married an Ethiopian woman and the Lord got really angry with her and she became a leper – Numbers 12 vs 10 . A woman a whole nation looked up to suddenly became an outcast although she was cured after 7 days ,her name was not mentioned again in the bible until her death in Numbers 20 vs 1.The God who lifted her very high , took of His hand and she fell from grace to grass never to rise again.

Is there any gift or opportunity the Lord has giving to you ,please be humble . No matter how high a man is the Lord can bring him very very low due to pride . Nebuchadnezzar a mighty emperor went from grace to grass in Daniel 4 vs 30-37 . Nebuchadnezzar stood and begin to praise himself and the Lord turned him into an animal for seven years. For the whole seven years the emperor lived like an animal in the forest , no one cared about him.  After the Lord restored him , he said in Daniel 4 vs 37 that Now I , Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the king of heaven , all of whose works are truth and His ways are justice . And those who walk in pride He is able to put down. Beware of pride brethren . A king was eaten up by worms because people began to compare him to God in Acts 12 vs 22-23 . Are people praising you and calling your name ? You better watch out !

The Lord loves hardworking people and hates laziness. The Lord is hardworking , John 5 vs 17 says Jesus said to them , “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working” . The Lord is hardworking and He rewards hard work. Proverbs 27 vs 23 says be diligent to know the state of you flock and attending to your herds. Our flocks and herds are the work ,jobs,employment the Lord has giving to us . Proverbs 10 vs 4 says He who has a slack hand becomes poor , but the hand of the diligent makes rich. Proverbs 20 vs 19 says he who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows frivolity will have poverty enough. Proverbs 12 vs 11 says a man who follows frivolity has no understanding. Proverbs 27 vs 18s says Whoever keeps the fig tree will eats its fruit .Proverbs 13 vs 4 says the soul of a lazy man desires, and has nothing but the soul of the diligent shall be made rich .Jeroboam went from no body to become a leader through hard work. 1 Kings 11 vs 28 says the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon ,seeing that the young man was industrious , made him officer over all the labor force of the house of Joseph. One thing with hard work is people notice it .

The Lord loves the wise and hates the foolish. Our God is a wise God. Paul refers to God in 1 Timothy 1 vs 17 as a God who alone is wise. Everything the Lord does , He does them through wisdom .Proverbs 3 vs 19 -20 says the Lord by wisdom founded the earth, by understanding He established the heavens. Psalm 104 vs 24 says how many are your works, O Lord! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.Wisdom is very important. Proverbs 4 vs 7 says wisdom is the principal things;therefore get wisdom ,and in all your getting , get understanding. To get wisdom fear God . Proverbs 9 vs 10 says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom , and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding .Those who fear God will be His friends because they know it is a foolish thing to be His enemy. Hebrews 10 vs 31 says it is a fearful says things thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Those who are wise will do everything in their power to be His friends. John 15 vs 14 says You are my friends if you do what I command. Those who are wise will not only be His friends but His family. Matthew 12 vs 50 says for whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother. The friends of Jesus are with Him and are not against Him. Matthew 12 vs 30 says he who is not with Me is against Me ,and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.

We cannot accept God and refuse Jesus . Matthew 10 vs 40 says He who receives Me (Jesus) receives God . Those who fear the Lord hates sin .Sins takes us far from God. Jeremiah 5 vs 25 says iniquities and sins withhold good from us. There is one thing the Lord can not do , he can not behold sin or touch sin .There is no way you will anoint an individual without  touching them. For the Lord to anoint us with the oil of gladness He has to touch us and if we are In sin it will be impossible for Him to touch us because He can not touch sin. That is why He sent Jesus to come and die . Once we accept Jesus into our life , the blood of Jesus washes us clean and the Lord is able to touch us.

The bible said in Romans 3 vs 23 that for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 6 s 23 says For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. The gift was explained in John 3 vs 16 , For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. What shall we do to be save ? The bible says in Romans 10vs 9 that if you confess with your mouth , Jesus is Lord , and believe in
your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10 vs 10 – For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with our mouth that you confess and are saved.

Pray this prayer from your heart today!

Dear Jesus , I believe that You died for me and rose again on the third day. I confess I am a sinner. I need your love and forgiveness. Come into my heart . Forgive my sins. I receive Your eternal life. Confirm You love by giving me peace, joy and supernatural love for others, Amen.

Welcome to Christ brethren, Please join a bible believing church.

Samuel Oluwatoki

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