Anointing Oil

The storehouse was not only a place for grain and wine; it was also connected to the olive press.  Olives were gathered, crushed, and pressed to extract oil, which was preserved for future use.  

In the New Covenant, Christ Himself is the ultimate storehouse.  Christ means “The Anointed One and His Anointing”.  Scripture declares, “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil” (Acts 10:38).  Oil symbolises the anointing.  Just as the physical storehouse safeguarded oil for pressing, Christ carries and preserves the fullness of God’s anointing.

The purpose of the anointing is to destroy every yoke—addictions, manipulation, oppression, or any other stronghold (Isa 10:27).  The Hebrew word here for the anointing is shemen, which means that you are becoming so richly fed with the Spirit-filled Word of God, that the yoke of bondage around your neck automatically cracks and breaks off.   When your steps are washed with the cream of the Word, the Rock Himself pours out rivers of oil for you (Job 29:6).  The cream of God’s Word feeds and enables you to slide smoothly from every difficult situation! 

But this kind of anointing comes with a price.  It requires cooperation with the Storehouse that God has appointed for you.  Just as the five foolish virgins were righteous (they were virgins after all!) you can be faithful and pure but without oil in your midnight hour.  They missed the bridegroom because they had no oil for their lamps (Matt 25:1-13).  You will miss your visitation if you are not a shareholder of God’s appointed Storehouse. 

Divine supply flows through appointed fathers.  Moses became such a powerful storehouse of the anointing that God took of the Spirit that was upon him and distributed it to the seventy—without diminishing the source (Num 11:16–17, 25).   Elijah became a storehouse to Elisha (1 Ki 19).  Jesus was a storehouse to the seventy who experienced great anointing in their ministry (Luke 10:1-12).  He breathed the Spirit upon the twelve before sending them (John 20:19-23).  The apostles became powerful storehouses to the Church (Acts 5:12-16).  

The harlot (false church) does not have the full composition of the anointing oil–she anoints her place of worship with aloes – a strange component that focusses on externals, instead of  calamus, cassia and olive oil which are symbolic of the internal posture of worship (Prov 7:17).  She lacks the grace of the perfumer (Ex 30:22-33).   

True spiritual fathers are living storehouses representing Christ and dispensing the anointing through the administration of the Word and Spirit to their sons.  They are the olive press in action, ensuring that the Spirit-filled oil reaches the edge of the garment (Ps 133) so that every person in their household encounter the overcoming, enabling, yoke-destroying Spirit of God in the lives.

Isaiah 10:27  It shall come to pass in that day that his burden will be taken away from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil.