Empty Vessels

Empty Vessels

Sunday, October 30, 2022 – 10 am

In the prophetic times which we live we see so much of the fulfillment of God’s Word all around us. The Spirit of God is moving in the earth to find as many empty vessels as He can that will be willing to be filled with the Oil of Gladness and will carry that oil of anointing, by carrying their “cross”, or the portion that has been given to them for the cause of the gospel and become faithful servants of the Lord, willing to be poured out in his service upon other vessels that they might be filled also.

It's not hard to find empty vessels! They are all around us because the vast majority of people around you every day are empty. They don’t have the presence of the Holy Spirit within their hearts and they are like lost sheep wandering in a strange land with no hope of finding their way back to the sheepfold.

Every day we all see people in that condition looking as though they are peering into a future with no hope of change for a better tomorrow.

All of us have those moments when it seems that we lose faith for the future. It’s part of the human condition. It’s one of the favorite tricks of the enemy of your soul to have you ever stop in your tracks to consider your future in this world and make you begin to wonder and worry about how you were going to make it another day.

Have you ever felt as though you were empty, drained of all your strength, drained of all your resources, and it seems like there is no end in sight for the demands that are placed upon your life, and you’ve already given of yourself sacrificially, and there seems to be little or nothing to show for your efforts, and yet the circumstances of life just keep piling on more and more?

Those times in your life when that happens can become almost unbearable and there have been many who have given up and just walked away from it all, going to live alone like hermits in the midst of society. They have tuned out, walked out and chosen to care about nothing but themselves and have no hope for tomorrow.

Others have chosen to exit life, to rid themselves of all responsibilities, to cast aside anything and everything that life could ever do to them, or offer them, and they have decided that the battle just isn’t worth it, so they took their life through suicide. They were deceived into believing that to end their life would mean the end of their troubles only to realize that their troubles had only multiplied and magnified and would never go away as they suffered in the fiery pits of darkness and hopelessness that awaits those who die without faith.

If you’re here right now and you’re not facing those thoughts in your life, count yourself as being among the most blessed and fortunate people on the earth. If you can look at your troubles and know that somehow God will work it all out to your good, then you are blessed indeed! If you can look at all that is happening in the world and still know that God will never fail you, then you are surely blessed, for you have a source of strength and provision in you that so many others don’t.

You have the hope of salvation, and the promise of a future that is greater than you can even imagine, and you have the Oil of Gladness that has been poured into your life in a measure that you can’t contain it all, and that oil in you overflows everywhere you go and touches everything and everyone around you, and they are touched by the oil of anointing that is upon you and in you, like a well of living water that comes from your heart and soul after you have been filled by the presence of the Holy Ghost who dwells in you!

That Oil of Gladness that is in you is what makes you have hope when others don’t. It gives you victory when everyone else around you is falling apart. It gives you peace when everything around you is only chaos. It gives you joy when the whole earth is in sorrow. And it gives you eternal life, when everything else around you faces death and an eternity where they will always be continually on the brink of death, but never able to dying, and they live every hour without hope of deliverance from what they see coming.

Those are the Empty Vessels that the Lord is seeking! They, just like us, are the reason that Jesus came from Heaven to be born as a man, so suffer the things of life, and die on the cross to bring us all hope and connect us with the great Love of our Father in Heaven, who desires to fill us all with the Oil of Gladness.