08/26/2026
Woman, It's Time For You To Break Your Box | Michael E. Jackson | St. Mark 14:3-9
**The message centers on the woman who entered Simon’s house and broke an alabaster box of costly perfume and poured it on Jesus. Her act was an expression of worship, sacrifice, faith, and complete surrender.
The “box” represents the things that have contained you. It can symbolize fear, insecurity, disappointment, rejection, tradition, other people’s opinions, past failures, or anything that has kept you from releasing what God has placed inside of you.
The woman understood something others in the room did not: what was inside her box was too valuable to remain contained. She was willing to break the box and pour everything out for Jesus, even though others criticized her.
Key Points
* It’s time to break the box.
God has placed something valuable inside you, but you cannot experience its full purpose while continually allowing fear, doubt, or people’s opinions to contain you.
* Stop worrying about what people think.
The woman was criticized for what others considered wasteful. But what looked wasteful to people was worship to Jesus.
* Your sacrifice has value.
The perfume was expensive, but she considered Jesus worth the cost. Sometimes breaking your box means giving God your time, gifts, resources, comfort, pride, or plans.
* You have something inside you that needs to be released.
The box protected the perfume, but it also contained it. Likewise, what once protected you can eventually become what limits you.
* Don’t die with your perfume still in the box.
There are gifts, dreams, ideas, testimonies, anointing, and potential inside you that were never meant to remain hidden.
* Your worship can change the atmosphere.
When she broke the box, the fragrance filled the house. When you release what God has put inside you, your obedience can impact everyone around you.
The Central Message
Woman, God is calling you out of containment and into release. You have survived the criticism, the disappointment, the rejection, and the seasons that tried to convince you to keep your box closed. But now it’s time to break the box, release what’s inside, and pour it out before Jesus.
What people call waste, God may call worship.
What people don’t understand about you may be the very thing God wants to use.
And when you finally break the box, the fragrance of what God put inside you will fill the room.
“She hath done what she could…” — Mark 14:8
Bottom line: You can’t release what’s inside until you’re willing to break what’s been containing it. Woman, it’s time to break your box!
