When God comes to dwell in us, by His Spirit, Life and power, He comes into our spirit through the inward man. Outside of this inward man is the outer man known as the soul wherein our thoughts, emotions and will of the outermost man functions in our physical body. Thus we speak of the inward man as the spirit, and the outermost man as the body. We must never forget that our inward man is the human spirit where God dwells, where His Spirit mingles with our spirit. Just as we are dressed in clothes, so our inward man “wears” an outward man: the spirit “wears” the soul. And similarly the spirit and soul “wear” the body. It is quite evident that men are generally more conscious of the outer and outermost man, and they hardly recognize or understand their spirit at all. We must know that he who can work for God is the one whose inward man can be released to break through the outward man, a covering that it is not easily broken but must break forth to enable us recognize that the first difficulty to our work with God is not in others but in ourselves. If we have never learned how to release our inward man by breaking through the outward man, we are not able to serve for the fruitfulness of our work depends upon whether our outward man has been broken by the Lord so that the inward man can pass through that brokenness and come forth to release a blessing.

Matthew 26:7 -8 a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table.When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. "Why this waste?" they asked.

 Mark 14:3 While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head

When our Alabaster jar is broken, the Holy Spirit – the oil outpours and the individual is transformed. Here it is filled with ointment; the woman is not just washing Christ but ANOINTING him and remember that the word Christ means 'Anointed One'. So the Jar and the woman who carries it are VERY significant in terms of understanding the inner meaning of the Christ Mystery. The Holy Spirit disciplinary purpose that works in us is to break our outward man so that our inward man may come through, yet we fret and act frivolous when the Lord is preparing a way to use us, to the extent we murmur and quarrel with God and become negative in our attitude consciously or unconsciously. When the main aim of the Lord is to destroy the treasure of outward man - the earthen vessel, our alabaster jar, to crack open our shell to reveal the treasure within the alabaster oil. The Lord longs to find a way to bless the world through those who belong to Him through brokenness as a way of blessing, the way of fragrance, the way of fruitfulness, and also a path sprinkled with blood that He may find a way for His outright work in us. We must find out for ourselves what the mind of the Lord in our lives is. It is a sad fact, that in individual lives and in ministry many do not know what is the mind or intention of the Lord for their lives. I pray for the Lord to open their eyes, to see that everything which comes into their lives can be meaningful and the Lord has not wasted any one encounter or situation they have been through, for all experiences, troubles and trials which the Lord sends us are for our own good. To understand the Lord’s purpose, is to see very clearly that He is aiming at a single objective the destroying or breaking of the outward man so the spirit can come forth, and we begin to be able to exercise our spiritual oil

1 Samuel 10:1

Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on Saul's head and kissed him, saying, "Has not the LORD anointed you leader over his inheritance?

1 Samuel 16:1

The LORD said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be king."

The Lord’s timing in our brokenness is one of gradual or sudden. The Lord usually spends several years upon us before He can accomplish the work of destruction of our outward man by allowing us experience gradual daily trials, until one day He brings sudden destruction or the sudden first and then the gradual, but we certainly can prolong it ourselves by wasting God’s time through rebelliousness and self gratification of the flesh. That is why there is great loss of souls, should we needlessly prolong the time by using our mind to preach and stir others by using our emotions, yet if we do not know how to use our spiritual oil (Alabaster oil) the Spirit of God can not touch people through us. The Lord that now reigns in you and through you will sprinkle His deliverance blood on you and redeem your family, ministry from every satanic attack from the kingdom of darkness that is released through close channel like children to test your faith  if you will compromise God’s word, revelation to please flesh or ease your pain that can lead to greater destruction than the journey of reaching your grace of Alabaster oil outpour

Romans 13:14

Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature..

Hebrews 4:15

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way just as we are – yet was without sin

I pray that in your precious moment that you offer yourself as I offer myself without condition, without reservation, into the hands of the Lord, and delight as I delight to offer myself to Him and willing to let Him have His full way through me and in my family and ministry life. But be rest assured that when you get to that stage of uncompromising your place of Alabaster oil outpouring, your ways will be strange to those who still live in the outward self. When you get to that stage in life as I have, be encouraged that no matter how many troubles you encounter the Lord delivers you from them all, for He rescued, support you in His great delight and keep you safe from accusing tongues for you know the truth and the truth will set you free , remembering it is written in

John 15:19

 If you belonged to the world it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

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                                                            Rev Sophy Wahab © 27/11/2010