Joseph Prince - Why and How the Anointing Oil Can Heal and Protect
Jesus said in Luke 10:19, I love this verse, «Behold, I give to you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy». I love this. God will always make sure the devil is at your feet, amen. And then you just trample him without realizing. In other words, go by your own way, walking with God, and don’t worry about the devil, amen. Some people are always conscious of the devil. Don’t have to be conscious of him. Just go your way and then if he’s in your way, you will trample on him. You will trample on the serpents and scorpions.
This reminds you of Psalms 91, right? Am I right? What does it say? You shall tread on the lion and the cobra. The young lion and the serpent, you shall trample underfoot, amen? And I love this verse. Notice that it says, «I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions». Jesus is talking. «And over all,» over how much? «Over all the power of the enemy and nothing,» no thing, no thing, nothing. «Nothing shall by any means hurt you». In the Greek, by any means is a double negative. Very seldom you use double negative. But when double negative is used, like for example, «Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not,» is double negative, «impute sin to him». The righteousness of faith that David describes that all of us have.
Now same thing, «Nothing shall by no means in any way hurt you». When are we going to believe that? You know, it doesn’t happen automatically. It happens to those who believe because faith is the currency of heaven, amen. You go to China, renminbi, the currency. You go to Singapore, it is dollars, amen. You go to some place the world, is yen. But you know what? God’s currency is faith. Without faith, it’s impossible to please God. And the devil wants God’s people to be in fear. All of you just say this right now, «For God has not given me the spirit of fear». Say it like you mean it. «God has not given me the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind».
We’re going to release the faith of God during this time. Because God is always greater. «Greater is he that’s in you than he that’s in the world,» amen, amen. And God spoke to me and said, «It’s time for you to tell the people to put on themselves the anointing oil, put on their houses the anointing oil, sprinkle the anointing oil on their vehicles. Even though you drive your car once a while, put it on your car, it will look shinier», amen? But it’s time to revive that teaching. Okay, before we touch on the anointing oil, let me just tell you this. There will be those of you who think that, «Pastor Prince, isn’t this very strange, anointing oil? You know, is this superstition? Is this something that in the Old Testament»?
Well, let me just tell you this. I used to have the position that it’s like a symbolic, oil is actually the symbol of the Holy Spirit. That’s more important and that is true. But God never despises the means of the symbol, amen. God can anoint the tokens that symbolize what his power is all about. Are you listening, people? Let me just say this to you. That if you say Old Testament, New Testament, Scripture, watch this. It says in Mark 6, «Jesus’s disciples went out. They went out and preached that people should repent and they cast out many demons and anointed with,» what? Oil.
Now Jesus is with them during that time. And yet they went around anointing the sick with what? Oil. «Pastor, why»? Don’t ask me why. If they did it, they got a result. What’s the result? Healed them. These sick were healed. Were they healed? Wherever the oil came, sickness turned into health. Are you listening? That’s, by the way, this New Testament. So even after Jesus died and Jesus went back to heaven already and the church age has begun, you still find in James chapter 5, it says this, «Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him, anointing him with,» what? «Oil». This is the church age. It’s no more Old Testament. It’s church age. «Anointing him with,» what? «Oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him». Are you listening, people?
We are in the church age and they use oil. And some people are too smart to use oil. «Oh, no oil. I just pray in my heart, in my room and all that». That’s why you don’t get results. And the prophet said to Naaman the leper, «Dip yourself seven times». Imagine he dipped himself. «I look like a fool in this river». In fact, he actually said, «Are not the rivers of Syria better»? Because he was a Syrian. «Isn’t it better? Aren’t they larger? Aren’t they bigger? Pharpar and Abana, aren’t they bigger than Jordan»? But the prophet said, «Go dip in the River Jordan,» and he dipped seven times.
So imagine, one time, «I look stupid». Two times, «What am I doing»? Three times, «Everyone is laughing at me». Four times, «I feel like a real dumb guy». And finally, sixth time, and seventh time, the Bible says his flesh became like a child’s. I’ll take that anytime. If God tells me to shout before the walls come down, I’ll do it. If Jesus says put out the boat, even though a whole night you didn’t catch anything, if Jesus said it, I’ll do it. If he says anoint it with oil, I’ll do it. It’s not the oil, people; it’s what it symbolizes. Can I have a good amen? Amen?
So the Bible says that always in this vein, in Deuteronomy 7, God says, «And He will love thee and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land». Notice, bless the fruit of your womb are your children, and the fruit of your land. What is the fruit of your land? «Your grain, your new wine, and your oil. They will be increased and you shall be blessed above all peoples». You shall be blessed above all peoples, New Creation Church. You shall be blessed above all peoples. «There shall not be a male or female barren among you».
Claim it! Barren not just in children, but also in fruitfulness, in our job and all that. That’s what the devil wants to see happen even in our nation, you’re going to see that happen. We’re going to put a stop to it, amen. In Jesus’s name, we are believing God for our turnaround, for our restoration, for his people as well as for our nation, amen. And then it says, verse 15, it says, «The Lord will take away from you some sickness, and some he will leave behind to teach you some lesson».
Oh, I didn’t read it correctly. What does the Bible say? Not human tradition. What does the Bible say? «And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known». Sounds like… Egypt, by the way, in Hebrew, I told you all, is double stress. Confined space. That’s what’s happening right now. The devil is trying to bring that, spiritually speaking, the spirit of Egypt, all right? A straitness of space. God wants to give you a land flowing with milk and honey, amen.
Here’s a testimony from one of our sisters. «Towards the end of last year, I came across Pastor Prince’s sermon on Psalms 91 that made me want to delve deeper into God’s Word. And so I started reading Pastor Prince’s book, 'The Prayer of Protection.' At the start of the New Year, my work took me to a part of Thailand,» this year that is, «of Thailand where I was surrounded by lush jungle and wildlife. One rainy night, I used the light from my mobile phone to navigate dimly lit pathways to my front porch. And I saw a straw mat placed outside the door which wasn’t there before. Thinking that it was probably placed there by the housekeeper, I took another step towards it. As I was about to put my feet on the mat, I saw that it moved slightly. It was then that I realized that it was a coiled up python. My heart leapt in shock. I was mere inches away from a snake. I backed away immediately. Thankfully, the python slithered away quickly. I immediately got into my room and slammed the door shut before checking the room to ensure there were no snakes lurking around. That night, still feeling shaken, I read the prayer of protection devotional. And that day’s devotional reading was aptly titled, 'You Shall Not Be Afraid.' Psalms 91, verse 5 which says, it reminded me of this verse, 'You shall not be afraid of the terror by night.' And in verse 11, it gives the reason why we don’t have to be afraid: 'He shall give his angels charge over you.' As I read and repeated the verse aloud, I realized that I was kept safe by his angels. By his grace, God Almighty made sure that I took a second look before I could step on the python. Indeed, God is good. I calmed down and was able to sleep soundly that night».
All praise and glory to God. I remember while waiting for our apartment to get ready, we actually rented a place. Not a new place, but kind of run down near the wild area and all that. But we were glad. In fact, we never used the swimming pool because one time we saw a monitor lizard go right through the swimming pool swimming, having a good time. There was even a snake in the premises, but Jessica at that time was a young girl, probably about Primary 3 at the time. And she was upstairs in her own room. And one night, not the same night, the day after, she said she heard at night, she heard bees trying to get into her room.
So the next night again, she said that she heard bees trying to get into her room. So this time I felt that it cannot be just a dream or something, hallucination, but it could be something real. So I took the anointing oil, Wendy and I, we walked to the patio, and we applied the oil. The next day, after we did that, we heard her shouting in the morning, «Mama, mama»! And I was home and we all ran up and right at the patio, right at the level where, you know, the threshold where they would have come in, not only a few bees, but along the whole line is a row of bees dead. They were all dead. It’s like they cannot cross over. It reminds us, while we don’t apply the blood, the blood of Jesus now in heaven, we apply the blood of Jesus by faith.
But there’s something akin to applying the blood by applying the oil. Because in the Bible, in the Old Testament, there are two groups of people, the king as well, but this is illustrated in Leviticus. The priest, for example, and the leper. When they are anointed, they are anointed with blood first. Blood on the right ear, on the right thumb, on the right toe. Which means now their ear is consecrated. What they hear is consecrated. What they do is blessed. Where they go, amen, they will be a blessing, amen. So watch this now. Where the blood came is where the next stage happens. Put the oil on the blood. On the ear, the right lobe, the right thumb, and the right toe.
So today, we don’t apply the blood because the blood has already been applied on us, amen. But we apply what we want. We can even apply it on our businesses, amen, on the door of your business. No business coming in, just anoint it, amen. Anoint it, if there’s an area of growth you’re concerned about in your body, you can touch that area with the anointing oil. But there’s one particular area, do not know where to touch, touch your forehead. And there’s a promise here where, very interestingly, that God said to his angels when destruction was about to come to Jerusalem, Jerusalem has gone into idolatry and rebelled against God time and time and time again. God sent prophet after prophet after prophet.
A number of them they killed. And God says, «Okay, destruction is coming through Nebuchadnezzar». But God said this, watch what God said to the angels. «The Lord said to him,» the one with the special seal, God says, «'Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men, the men who are concerned about God’s interests,» all right? These man will not die in this destruction. God told the angel to put a mark on their forehead. And when you look at the word «mark» in Hebrew, it is the word «tav». Tav. Aleph tav, Jesus’s signature.
Now look up here. Tav today is spelled like a H in modern Hebrew script. But in ancient Hebrew script, during David’s time, you know how tav is drawn? So it’s like, I can just see you all putting on your son’s little forehead a little cross before they go to school, amen, with the anointing oil, amen? I did that in the first service with all the people in the first service, and I messed up my fringe. But it’s blessed mess, amen? Imagine David having the anointing oil on his head. The whole thing just falling down on him. And the Bible says, «God says, 'With my holy oil have I anointed my servant David.'»
From then on, the Spirit of the Lord came on David. But just because the Holy Spirit came on David, didn’t mean there was no oil. There was a physical oil. It was the oil that came on him first, then the Holy Spirit came on David. And from then on, David became a giant killer. He was a blessing everywhere he went. Before that, he was not noticed. He was not noticed even in his house. But then, from the house, God brought him to the palace. He began to be noticed because of the anointing on him. Can I have a good amen?
And there is something that God warns about to the powers of evil. «Don’t touch the ones I have anointed». And the word there, for example, in Psalms 105 where you find he brought them out with silver and gold, there was none feeble. In that same Psalm, it says, «God permitted no one to do them wrong; Yes, He even rebuked kings for their sakes, Saying, 'Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm.'» Do not touch my anointed ones and do my prophets no harm. Notice, this is not Jesus.
Now the word «Mashiach» usually is referring to Jesus, the Messiah. In Hebrew, it’s Mashiach. But here it’s plural. God’s people are also the anointed ones. And God says to the powers that be, «Do not touch my anointed ones,» amen. Just like just now, do not touch the destruction, God said destruction to disease, to the 'flu. Do not touch my anointed ones. Are you listening? When the oil comes on you, you become anointed. Now we are all anointed. Yes, already in Christ, there’s anointing upon, anointing within. But God is teaching us how to draw from his storehouse in the first chamber for the first half of the year. Then later on, we go to the rest. Maybe end of the year will be a financial crunch, but we’ve got everything prepared in the third floor already, amen? Are you excited? Are you ready? Amen.
So again, there’s something there about all this. I’ve taught on the anointing oil before. And I just want to say this. Like I said before, you can’t tell if a virus… You were delivered from a virus because it’s not physical like terrorist bombing or disease. You can see the X-ray and all that. It’s not palpable, it’s not visible, right, right? You look at the law of probabilities. You say, «Wow, Pastor Prince, you know, that many people and all that». No, no, you can be in a small number of people and still be infected, amen. If you give in to fear, let me just tell you this. Fear is the worst thing, amen.
You know, when you fear, it’s almost like you’re agreeing with the currency of hell instead of the currency of heaven. And so the first thing, heaven’s favorite word, when an angel comes down, or the Lord Jesus’s favorite word to his disciples is, «Don’t be afraid». In Hebrew, Lotirah. Lotirah, Lotirah, Peter. Lotirah, Gideon. Lotirah, amen? I asked the Lord personally, I said, «Lord, can you give me a word for the people? I’ve preached on the anointing oil before. Just give a word that we all know for sure that you want us to use the anointing oil during this time,» amen? So I asked him for a word and he told me, «Son, son, go to Psalms 91». I said, «Lord, Psalm 91 don’t have the word 'oil.'»
The one thing I advise you all to do is this. Never tell the Lord about what his Word has contained or what is in his Word, okay? He says, «Go to my Word in Psalm 91». I said, «There’s nothing there». I’m going to show you something very interesting about the Hebrew language. Okay, first and foremost, I’m going to show you the word «oil» in Hebrew. It’s the word «shemen,» like Gethsemane. Gath is the press, either for wine or olive. Gath is the press. Shemen is oil. Gethsemane is oil press, where Jesus was pressed, amen? Now, this is the word for oil in Hebrew. Reading from right to left, now, you all say after me, «Shin». It’s like the W, right? «Shin». Say, «Mem, nun».
One more time. Shin, mem, nun. Shemen. All right, shemen. Gath shemen. Gethsemane. Shemen is oil. Got it? Memorize this: shin, mem, nun. Now look at nun. Nun, you are seeing it in its final form. Nun is like, show them the nun. All right, these two words is nun. But when it’s at the end of a word, it becomes a long word, okay? Shemen. But it’s still nun. If you find a nun on the right, it is still nun. Got it? Okay, just final form. This is little intricacies of the Hebrew letter.
Now memorize it again. Go back to Shemen. Shin-mem-nun. Got it? Okay, now, now you see this, the Lord says it’s in Psalms 91. So I look at Psalms 91, «I don’t see it, Lord». And he told me where to find it. And I look, and I’m telling you the truth, this is what the Lord showed me in Psalms 91, verse 9 to 10. «Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge, Even the Most High, your dwelling place».
Before I show you this, I need to show you this. The first mention is always important. The first mention of oil. Do you know where is it? The first mention of oil, with the exception of those in front here, does anyone will tell me where is it? In Genesis. When Jacob left his house, all right, he was afraid his brother would kill him. Remember that? He took the brother’s birthright and he fled from his house. He landed in the place that we know later on as Bethel, the house of God. But he landed there and he took some stones and he slept on the stones, okay?
And the next day, while he was sleeping, he had a dream, and the Lord spoke to him. Don’t forget, he’d just cheated his father, deceived his father. Cheated his brother. Morally, he’s not in a good place. And yet, God was a God of grace to him. Undeserved favor. So whenever you find the Bible saying the God of Jacob instead of the God of Israel, it’s always a phrase denoting his grace. The God of Jacob shall defend you. The God of Jacob shall help you. It’s the God of grace.
So Jacob had a dream and God came to him and said, «I will keep you and preserve you wherever you go. I will bless your seed and your generations. I will provide for you». It’s all I will, I will, I will. Unconditional promise from God. He had a dream of a ladder that went to heaven, amen, and angels going up and down. Later on, when Jesus came in John chapter 1, you will find Jesus saying, «Hereafter you will see the Son of Man and angels ascending and descending upon Him». Jesus is Jacob’s ladder, the connection to heaven. So he had a dream and he woke up and he said this. «Oh, how awesome is this place»? he said. «This is the house of God».
That’s why he called it Beth-El. Beth means house, El is God. Beth-El, amen. This is the house of God. And you know what he did? This is what he did. He took oil and he anointed the pillar of stone. The stone that he slept on, he anointed the pillar. He anointed the pillar. And the pillar, the anointed top of it is the word «head». He anointed the head of it. So the first time oil is mentioned is here. And every time the Bible mentions something for the first time, there’s something significant. You see, oil is tied up with the house of God. Do you see it? Oil is tied up with the house of God, amen?
Now you’re ready. Go to Psalms 91, verse 9 and 10, «Because you made the Lord your dwelling place,» the house of God. Where do you find the oil? In the house of God. Where do you find all the promises of God, «I will provide for you, I will preserve you, I will keep you»? In the house of God. The house of God today is not bricks and stones. The house of God is not a building. The house of God is you and I coming together. The house of God is tied up with the anointing of God. That’s why you find angels coming up and down, amen. Angels are freely moving among us even right now. And that’s when, «No evil shall befall you, Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling again». Because you have made the house of God your dwelling.
Now what is the word again, «shemen»? Shin, mem, nun. Three letters, okay? The Lord told me in this, and I look it up, let’s look at the interlinear, look at the Hebrew version of verse 9, «Because you have made the Lord my refuge, the Most High, your habitation». Can you find the first letter, shin? Can you find shin? There it is, shin. Can you find shin? Can you find mem? One, two, three, mem. Can you find nun? To spell shemen. One, two, three, nun. It’s intervals. Now men didn’t put this in. I couldn’t find this. I didn’t hear this anywhere. I didn’t read this anywhere. The Lord spoke to me and said, «Son, the oil is there». It’s like when you put the oil in something, it’s like the house of God. And that’s why no evil shall befall you, no plague will come near your dwelling, in practical ways, are you listening? Amen, before you leave your house, amen, anoint yourself.