Weekly Bible Study - It's time to Molt and Move/ Don't let them taint your oil!
- Sierra Guillaume
- Nov 13, 2023
- 6 min read
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God created us in his image. He also gave us free will and emotions. Which sometimes isn't always the best thing. At times, when we get our way our emotions get the best of us we can forget who we are. Our identity can become scrambled and even lost in the way we identify with the people, places, and even things around us. So when it's a new season we may feel overwhelmed and unsure because everything we once knew is no longer our reality and everything that we are stepping into is unfamiliar. We may struggle with "imposter syndrome." Just like when Jesus went back to his home town everyone was questioning who is this?
This is why your wilderness/ isolation seasons are so important! God is preparing you for a new you have not yet experienced. He needs you to become rooted in him and his word. Let's use a Lobster as an example. If you don't know Lobsters go through a process called molting. This is where they shed their old shell and grow a new one. This is a laborious process that is excruciatingly slow and dangerous! 10% of crustaceans actually die during the molting or transitional phase, even though it's something that they all have to go through.
I read that it's like taking off a pair of tight wet jeans and your skin being made of jello. If you do one wrong move you could bump into something and bleed to death. For us spiritually this could be sin. We could make a mistake and forget that God is trying to elevate us and fall into sin and stay there because it's familiar and comfortable and we don't want to change. This is where repentance comes in. We can bump of course and instead of saying it's not that bad. I only did it once. It was just today. We take it to God. Ask for forgiveness and his strength to get through it.
During the time of growing a new shell, they are more vulnerable to attacks as well. When you transition there will be a lot of Spiritual attacks. They know! Have you ever been in a relationship and been getting ready to break up with them and right before you do or when you do it you start getting messages from EVERYWHERE, the enemy knows! He may not have the details but he knows proximal times. Back to the lobsters, they are going through a venerable time. Not only do they have to be conscious of the way they move they have to be conscious of where they go and what they allow around them. Why? Because you may forget the promises God has spoken to you and over you while you are going through this. You don't want to be around people who may taint your oil.
Taint - a trace of a bad or undesirable quality or substance.
More importantly, you don't want to forget whoms we are. I believe this is one of the many reasons God made us in his image. He is not only Love, but Love created us in his image so that we may never forget that we are love and the love our Father has for us is unconditional.
“So God created man in His own image; He created him in the image of God; He created them male and female. God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.” Genesis 1:27-28
As we go through this slow, laborious, and dangerous process we have to remember to be rooted in his word. We have to remember repentance, and we have to remember whom we belong to. The shield of God comes in
Ephesians 6 : 10- 18
“Finally, be strengthened by the Lord and by His vast strength. Put on the full armor of God so that you can stand against the tactics of the Devil. For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens. This is why you must take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take your stand. Stand, therefore, with truth like a belt around your waist, righteousness like armor on your chest, and your feet sandaled with readiness for the gospel of peace. In every situation take the shield of faith, and with it you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is God’s word. Pray at all times in the Spirit with every prayer and request, and stay alert in this with all perseverance and intercession for all the saints.”
These are the same verses but King James
Ephesians 6:10-18 KJV
“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;”
Daniel 10:2-14 HCSB
“In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks. I didn’t eat any rich food, no meat or wine entered my mouth, and I didn’t put any oil on my body until the three weeks were over. On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris, I looked up, and there was a man dressed in linen, with a belt of gold from Uphaz around his waist. His body was like topaz, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and feet like the gleam of polished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude. Only I, Daniel, saw the vision. The men who were with me did not see it, but a great terror fell on them, and they ran and hid. I was left alone, looking at this great vision. No strength was left in me; my face grew deathly pale, and I was powerless. I heard the words he said, and when I heard them I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Suddenly, a hand touched me and raised me to my hands and knees. He said to me, “Daniel, you are a man treasured by God. Understand the words that I’m saying to you. Stand on your feet, for I have now been sent to you.” After he said this to me, I stood trembling. “Don’t be afraid, Daniel,” he said to me, “for from the first day that you purposed to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your prayers were heard. I have come because of your prayers. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia opposed me for 21 days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me after I had been left there with the kings of Persia. Now I have come to help you understand what will happen to your people in the last days, for the vision refers to those days.””
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