There are many advantages to having a full oil lamp as shown
clearly in this parable of the ten virgins in Matthew 25:
Reasons to have a full oil lamp:
1. Being ready for the Bridegroom!
2. Your prayer life is more successful because you are in GOD’s Will.
3. You have protection from the enemy when you are in GOD’s Will.
4. You are no longer working against GOD and HIS Kingdom.
5. JESUS’ yoke is easy (Matthew 11:30) because the HOLY SPIRIT is at work and not the flesh.
6. Your testimony and outreach efforts are greatly enhanced because the HOLY SPIRIT gives you supernatural boldness you don’t possess in the flesh (Acts 4:31).
7. Praise and worship is enhanced because the HOLY SPIRIT leads you in how you ought to pray.
8. You are no longer distressed about the unknown future because the HOLY SPIRIT gives confidence that when you are in GOD’s perfect SPIRIT-filled Will you are moving in the right direction.
9. The HOLY SPIRIT brings greater understanding of the goals of the Kingdom to the individual so that your decisions will be Kingdom choices and not fleshly world choices.
The following three points were Words from the LORD about having a full lamp:
10. The HOLY SPIRIT works in the human life to point the human spirit even closer to the image of CHRIST, the BRIDEGROOM of the church.
11. When MY SPIRIT is in force then I, GOD, bring you to a fuller understanding of MY Word. (1 Corinthians 2:13-14).
12. When the HOLY SPIRIT is united with the human spirit there is power that imbues the human spirit to do the things GOD wills for that life that cannot be done out of the flesh.
For a complete filling of the HOLY SPIRIT:
Give a total surrender of your “self” and all your future plans, goals to JESUS CHRIST so that you belong to CHRIST fully and completely. Ask daily through prayer to JESUS to die to self and to crucify the flesh, and to ask for the HOLY SPIRIT to fill you completely. Ask the LORD JESUS to receive the baptism of the
HOLY SPIRIT (Acts 1:5, Matthew 3:11, Luke 3:16, Acts 19).
Matthew 25.
1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
