1998 is the year of JUBILEE, the time that the captives can be set free.
On May 14, 1948 God gave birth to the nation of Israel. Born again believers who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, by faith, through grace are spritual Israelites. Adopted and engrafted into the kingdom of God, we are now heirs to all of the covenant promises that God has made to the children of Israel. (Rom 11: 17) In this respect, we are the seed of Abraham, even though we may have not been born in that geographic area of the world. Therefore, we are included in this time of celebration of the year of Jubilee. (Gal. 3:7)
Jubilee is the acceptable year of the Lord; the time of the Lord's release. God has chosen this time to show favor to His children; releasing them from the bondages of financial oppression. For the Church of Jesus Christ, it is truly a time of celebration.
God has revealed to His servants, the prophets, many ways to help His people. An instance of this can viewed by the Prophet Elisha. God told Elisha to tell Naaman, the leper, to dip seven times in the river Jordan to be healed.
(II Kings 5:10)
Moreover, we recall the two widows in the days of Elijah. There was a widow woman that went to the prophet of God for prayer and advice because she was in a great financial dilemma. (II Kings 4:1-7) There was a second widow woman that felt she could not go on, but God gave His servant a "word" to speak to her. This supernatural message from God caused her circumstances to change immediately. Her and her household were sustained throughout the famine.
(I Kings 17:12-16)
In addition, one can scarcely speak of anointed servants of God without mentioning the Apostle Paul or the disciples of Jesus. "And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them." (Acts 19:11,12) "Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:" (James 5:14)
The disciples anointed with oil, healing the sick, and delivering those oppressed of the devil.(Mark 6:13)
Of a truth child of God, there are many examples of God making a way for His children in the Bible, and God has not changed. God tells His servants what "articles of faith" to use or what words to speak to His children, to insure the needed victory. The word of the Lord states that "surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets." (Amos 3:7)
Because so many of God's people are in need of supernatural victory over life problems, God has given me the OIL OF JUBILEE as means to help His people.
