18/02/2026
_The Oil Is Expensive And Will Cost You EVERYTHING_
Everyone wants to be chosen until the crushing starts, and you lose friends, family, and even yourself. Then the isolation and phone calls stop, text messages fade away, and you have no control over it, even if you try. Then the loneliness begins because He has removed everyone and everything from your life, it feels like punishment. Then He starts putting you in the classroom, and the testing starts, and everything is triggering you, and if you don’t catch the lesson, you will keep repeating it until you do. When your family doesn’t support you or what you’re doing because they don’t understand it and think you’re crazy... Every time you go to work, to the store, or anywhere, God allows you to be tested negatively by familiar faces that come at you angry because you’re being tested. When everyone you love rejects you, the position you applied for that you’re more qualified for than anyone else rejects you. Then the betrayal happens: the ones you love and call family betray you in the most hurtful ways because God allowed it. The humiliation God allows you to feel because of the betrayal and deception, because He is showing you your pride. The 3:00 AM waking you up and calling you into prayer; you’re learning there is no sleep right now.
You’re mocked at, laughed at, hated, and disrespected because you believe in Jesus. Everyone turns their back on you, but you’re called to forgive them and not judge them because they don’t understand what God is doing. The whole time, God is stretching you, burning the old you in the fire, pruning you by removing the dead things, plucking you so the new can grow back better, humiliating you to expose pride, allowing the rejection to strengthen you, allowing the betrayal so He can teach you your worth, 3:00 AM waking to pray so He can teach you authority and to war against the enemy. The crushing refines you for your anointing, your light, and allows healing. The isolation is where God teaches you to hear His voice. The wilderness is where I learned that God was the only one who saw me, understood me, and loved me. He showed me my true value and the way He saw me in His eyes. He taught me how to love myself again, to smile, and He taught me forgiveness.
When God has chosen you for a mission, an assignment, it will cost you EVERYTHING. The cross is heavy; His chosen must feel betrayal, humiliation, isolation, crushing, plucking, pruning, refiner’s fire, the testing, and the wilderness. He prepares you before He exposes you, but He lets you know that you have favor and divine protection. No matter the cost of everything you will lose, the hell you will endure, the humiliation, betrayal, or rejection... will you still have faith and pick up your cross every day, no matter how heavy it is? The old version of you must die to flesh daily so the new you can be exposed, and the healing, deliverance, and freedom you get from this pain is worth it all. All the glory goes to God!!!!
