There's Oil In This Press!

Crushing Produces Anointing and this revelation comes from Isaiah 61:3 where the prophet declares that God will give His people beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.

This is not poetry alone—it is a prophetic promise for each and every one of us to this very generation.

This verse tells us that when the enemy tries to bury us under ashes, God is already planning beauty.

When mourning tries to suffocate us, God is already releasing oil. When heaviness tries to weigh us down, God is already clothing us in praise.

I want you to know that your pain was not wasted, your struggle was not in vain, and your pressing season has been producing something you could not see at the time.

The theme that God has given me to announce to you is this: “There’s Oil in This Pressing: Crushing Produces Anointing.”

And I came to declare prophetically: “I’ve been pressed, but now I’m oiled up!”

To understand this prophetic word, you must first understand the olive.

The olive looks ordinary hanging on the tree, but inside that olive is oil that can heal, light lamps, and consecrate kings. Yet that oil will never be seen until the olive is pressed.

God has been pressing you in this last season. Some of you felt disappointment, financial struggle, family pain, and even spiritual warfare.

And you thought you were under attack. But can I tell you? You were under process.

The pressing is never easy. It hurts. It confuses. It makes you feel like giving up.

But pressing is the only way to release oil. Without pressing, olives remain bitter and useless. Without pressing, they never become oil.

That sleepless night was pressing. That sudden loss was pressing. That rejection was pressing.

That heartbreak was pressing. But in every press, God was squeezing something powerful out of you.

Don’t despise your pressing. If you were pressed, it means you were carrying oil. Empty vessels don’t get pressed—only oil-carriers do.

The greatest example of pressing is Jesus Himself. Before He went to the Cross, He went into the Garden of Gethsemane.

The word Gethsemane literally means “the oil press.” Isn’t it powerful that before redemption flowed on Calvary, pressing took place in Gethsemane?

Jesus was pressed so intensely that His sweat became like drops of blood. That was not weakness—that was pressing.

The weight of sin, shame, and judgment pressed Him until the oil of salvation began to flow.

Without the pressing in Gethsemane, there would be no victory at Calvary.

Without the crushing in the Garden, there would be no resurrection glory.

Tabernacle, your Gethsemane season—the time when you cried alone, when you asked God if the cup could pass—was not to destroy you. It was to press the anointing out of you.

Crushing is uncomfortable, but it is necessary. You cannot get oil without crushing. You cannot carry anointing without enduring pressure.

The crushing season reveals what’s really inside of you. When life pressed you, what flowed out?

? Some of you discovered a prayer life you never knew you had.

? Some of you discovered faith you didn’t know existed. Some of you discovered worship in the middle of warfare.

The devil thought pressing would break you, but pressing only proved that you were unbreakable.

The enemy thought crushing would silence you, but crushing only gave you a louder voice, because oil flows more freely after it has been pressed out.

I came to tell you this morning that the greater the crushing, the greater the oil.

If the weight felt unbearable, that is because the anointing on your life is unstoppable.

Oil in Scripture always carries purpose. Oil was used to heal wounds, as in the parable of the Good Samaritan.

Oil was used to fuel lamps, as in the story of the virgins in Matthew 25.

Oil was used to anoint prophets, priests, and kings. And oil was used to break yokes, as Isaiah 10:27 declares: “the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.”

That means the oil God has been pressing out of you is not for display, but for demonstration.

You were not pressed so that you could say you survived. You were pressed so that you could carry power.

The oil from your pressing will heal others who are broken. The oil from your crushing will fuel lamps that are running out of fire.

The oil from your tears will consecrate you for divine assignment. The oil from your warfare will break chains off entire families and communities.

The pressing was not about you alone. It was about everyone who will be healed, restored, delivered, and set free by the oil flowing from your life.

“Your oil has a purpose!”