Preserve Your Anointing

Matthew 25:13

None knows the hour, or the day of the Lord's coming just like the ten virgin brides in the parable were ignorant of the exact time of the bridegrooms coming.

Indeed and in fact, if the ten virgin brides knew about the time the bridegrooms where going to come in then perhaps they would have not fallen asleep.

If the ten virgin brides knew that at the stroke of mid night the cry announcing the bridegrooms coming was going to go out then perhaps all of them would have carried a contingency plan (extra oil)

However as the parable goes, among the ten brides, five where wise and five were foolish, and the thing that makes the five brides wise is that they went to the wedding banquet with not only their lamps but with some extra oil in their jars.

Thus, the extra oil that they carried to the wedding banquet besides that which was in their lamps was symbolic of their contingency plan, and the basis of them being called wise.

The other five brides are labeled as fools in this parable because in going to the wedding banquet all they did go with was their lamps but no extra oil because they assumed that the oil that was already in their lamps would sustain them till the time when the bridegrooms would come in.

Assumption is the mother of fools and contingency is the mother of the wise.

Foolish people always operate on assumption but wise people always operation with a contingency strategy and plan.

It’s important to always take a little extra because there is no guarantee that things will work out as you may assume.

For how long the ten virgin brides waited for their bridegroom we don’t know however what we do know is that then bridegrooms came beyond the expected time because the scripture says,""the bridegrooms were late coming in and the ten virgin girls fell asleep" till the cry went out announcing the coming in of the bridegrooms at the stroke of mid night.

And after the bridegrooms arrived, the ten virgin brides trimmed their lamps but the five foolish virgin girls who came at the wedding banquet with no contingency plan realized they were running out of oil in their lamps.

They were running out of oil because unlike the five wise virgin girls, the five foolish virgin girls did not carry any extra oil in their jars.

Hence they had to go out at midnight to buy more oil for their lamps in order to enter the banquet and of course by the time they arrived back from buying extra oil the banquet doors were closed by the master.

Since they were ten virgin brides, we imagine that the bridegrooms must have been ten as well.

But since only five of the ten virgin brides were wise then it must be that each virgin bride went away with two bride grooms.

In other words, when you are wise in your dealings its much possible that you will always walk away having gained more than you actually came for.

Conversely, every now and then you operate foolishly in your dealings there is a fundamental huge possibility of walking out with nothing and even many times than not losing the very little that you have.

When Jesus said that those who have (wisdom) even more will be given unto them and those who have not (wisdom), even the little they have will be taken away from among them.

It’s not foreign and strange when the bible declares that wisdom is the principle asset that should be the desire of every wealth minded individual because with no wisdom then there is no way you can beget wealth nor keep wealth.

Many times than not the anointing is given but it takes a wise person to keep and preserve the anointing of God upon their lives.

In the parable of the ten virgin brides, the lamp is a metaphor for the word of God and the oil is a metaphor for the anointed power of the Holy Spirit.

The lamp needs the oil to produce light every now and then the lamp is trimmed.

The word of God which is symbolic of the lamp needs the anointed power of the Holy Spirit which is symbolic of the oil to produce divine revelation which is symbolic of the light.

The divine revelation of God which is symbolic of the light serves to give wisdom, knowledge, understanding, direction, guidance and instruction in the things of God.

The ten virgin brides were on a mission and an assignment and their mission was the bridegrooms thus they needed the oil to fuel their lamps so as to be able to specifically identify their bridegrooms and so that their bridegrooms can be able to identify with them.

In order for one to be at a good place to identify their assignment and mission in God as much as to be identified in their mission and assignment in God they is need to carry the anointing (the power of the holy spirit) on your life.

In addition to carrying the anointing on one's life one also needs to master the art of keeping and if not so the art of preserving the anointing/ the power of the holy spirit in their respective life.

To keep and preserve the anointing or call it the power of the holy spirit one has to make it up in their mind and in their spirit to stay grounded in the word of God, on the path of constantly seeking to understand and to come to the full knowledge of God Almighty, and to stay grounded in the presence of God.

The anointing or rather call it the power of the spirit of God is given to a man that God carefully chooses and meticulous hand picks to carry out a specific assignment for God upon the face of the earth.

The assignment and mission that God gives a man is designed for a specific time frame and when that time frame comes to pass then the man appointed for the assignment of God should be fit and ready for the assignment

The only way to be fit and ready for the assignment of God even before its time frame is by preserving the anointing and the power of God upon your life by way of keeping yourself grounded in the word of God, presence of God, and in the constant seeking of God Almighty.

To preserve is to set aside something of great value for later usage and utilization.

It can also be understood as the act of setting someone aside for use at a designated time frame.

Hence it’s here and now that God will have me to tell you that it’s important for you to preserve your anointing because he has already set aside for you a time when the anointing as much as the power of the holy spirit on your life will come full circle.

This is time that God has appointed when the anointing on your will be manifested to all nations in its full capacity and potential thus preserve your anointing.