The Blessing in the Pressing

The brokenness we experience in our pressing situations is purposed to release an oil that is strategically anointed for ministry.  Yes, the pressing was crushing.  But with the crushing pain--and even embarrassment, in some cases--comes a powerful release.  And the value of what is released far outweighs the value we attributed to that which was crushed.  The oil we carry is only released via excruciating circumstances.  There indeed lies a blessing in the pressing because it's THIS oil that is specially formulated--if you will--for the work of ministry.

Flowing from our own pain, it's infused with the very power of GOD that brought us to the other side of through.  For some, the pressing may be diseased affliction.  For others, it may be a failed marriage.  One person's pressing could be a serious financial crisis, while another's situation involves a period of incarceration.  The possibilities are endless because everyone experiences their own unique combination of crushing blows from which the power of GOD delivers us.  The same power that brought us deliverance is now the active ingredient in the oil produced by our lives' crushing experiences that is meant to bring deliverance to others.

It is this highly potent oil that allows our ministerial callings to connect with others.  The anointing it carries is highly effective for ministering to those who are likewise experiencing the same kind of crushing that released the oil we respectively carry.  This is why we must not be ashamed of where Yahweh has brought us from.  We cannot carry over the embarrassment we may have felt in the time of our pressing into the place of glory wherein we now stand.  With deliverance comes an eradication of shame because we will not be able to free others until we are TOTALLY freed.  There are people who are desperate for renewed hope that what hurt them can indeed help them.  But in order for us to be those instruments of hope, it requires that we no longer be bound by the past.  We must instead remain aware of what happened so the oil flows freely to those whose lives need to come in contact with the same power that delivered us.