The Crushing

Your calling is going to crush you.

💔If you are called to mend to the brokenhearted, you are going to wrestle with a broken heart.

👦🏻If you are called to heal God’s little ones, you are going to experience your own share of trauma. ❤️‍🩹

🗣If you are called to prophesy, you’re going to struggle with self-control of the tongue. ‼️

🩺If you are called to lay hands, you’re going to deal with spiritually-rooted disease.

🪨If you’re called to preach and teach the gospel, you WILL be sifted for the wisdom that anoints your message. 🗡️📖

🪞If you are called to empower, your self-esteem will be attacked- your successes hard fought. 👑✝️💪🏼🩸

⚔️Your calling will come with spiritual warfare and a sifting - BOTH are necessary for your mantle to be authentic, humble and powerful. ⚔️🩸🛡️✝️🔥♥️🙏🏼♥️🔥

Your crushing won’t be easy because your assignment is not easy - and you can’t minister POWERFULLY what you haven’t walked out. 🥾Read that sentence again.

🕊When you’re feeling the weight of it coming down on you, RUN to the Father who longs to be your comfort. Let Him whisper your true identity over you while resting under the shadow of His wings. Position yourself against His heartbeat. Let Him renew your strength and set your eyes forward. No olives, no oil. No grapes, no wine.

Your oil is not cheap my friend. 🍶✨Stay strong in the Lord Jesus and in the Power of His might. ✝️💪🏼🪽⚔️🩸🛡️

This message highlights the profound challenges and spiritual battles that often accompany one's calling. It emphasizes that these struggles are essential in shaping and authenticating one’s ministry and purpose. The analogy of pressing olives to produce oil and crushing grapes to make wine symbolizes how adversity and hardship can lead to spiritual growth and empowerment.

When you face these trials, it's crucial to seek refuge and strength in God, allowing His comfort and guidance to renew your spirit and keep you focused. This perspective aligns with biblical teachings about enduring hardship with faith and finding strength in God.

Verses that resonate with this message:

- James 1:2-4: "Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."

- Isaiah 40:31: "But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."

- Psalm 91:1-2: "Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, 'He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.'"

We must remain steadfast in Faith, embracing the refining process, and leaning on God’s strength through the trials and battles of this life in navigating through our spiritual journeys and callings. Remember, through our testimonies, we will lead many to Christ Jesus.