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 all 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 than 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 in 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). Pray to be in the Will of the FATHER, profess your faith to others, read you Bible daily, and talk to the LORD all day.
Acts 19 (KJV): 1And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, 2He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. 3And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism. 4Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. 5When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied. 7And all the men were about twelve.
