Pastor Marlene Oestlund: Final lap - Oil press

Okay. Lady Senette, will you please open

for us?

Good morning, Lady Melindy. Good

morning, everyone. Sure.

Lord God, we just want to honor you this

morning.

We just want to thank you

that we

are part

of you,

Lord. We honor you as our bridegroom.

Thank you, Lord. You know that each one

of us said yes to you. We said yes to

the calling. We said yes. We want to be

part of your bride. And this morning I

pray Lord that you will just take us

deeper

deeper into your intimacy into that

place where we become one with you

Lord and we declare that this is all

about you. We love you. We honor you. We

glorify you for you are the king of

kings

and you love each one of us deeply

and intimately.

You know each one of us. Lord.

Thank you for this beautiful privilege

to once again come and enter in. We say

yes Lord. We choose to enter in,

to come and sit with you and to dine

with you and to receive from you your

love and all the deep things of your

spirit.

We honor you, Lord.

Thank you for this opportunity. Thank

you, Holy Spirit.

We pray it in the beautiful name, the

name above all names, our king Jesus.

Amen.

Amen. Thank you very much. All right.

Good morning, Pastor Molen. Thank you

for your time this morning. Again, I'm

going to hand over to you and you're

welcome to start then.

>> Thank you very much. Good morning to you

all. Thank you, Lady Sunette, for this

powerful deep prayer. It just really

puts it in alignment of what we're going

to share today. And I just want to say

thank you for everybody who made the

effort to wear sporty clothing. It

definitely lets me feel I'm not in the

class or the office, but we're on the

tracks. And that's exactly where we need

to find ourselves.

>> Can I just say I think Lady Vanessa wins

um the dress up for today. I commend you

for going all out.

I see you now, Lady Vanessa. I think

that's how we need to gear because right

now where we going, that would be very

wise to get up like that protection.

Well done. Well done, woman.

Y So, I'm going to take off my helmet

now.

Wow. Oh, great. Great. Okay. So, I just

quickly want to recap. So, we know we

are busy with the final lap and lesson

one was about ready,

that readiness on the track. And today

we are doing ready and then it's steady.

And um recapping from lesson one was for

me profound that

from moving from operation

Christian to

a daughter that loves and adors and

waits for my bridegroom. Is there

anybody who would like to say anything

about uh lesson one?

Anything that stood out or anything that

walked with you through the week?

Okay, good. All right. So, we're going

to do now as you know in the athletics

in the tracks very sit. Now if you would

sit on the podium, you would think sit

is a is from the outward a very quiet

still movement

getting ready. You see the athletes are

warming up and doing exercise and the

numbers and everything and muscles

stretching and practicing and then they

come into the tracks. Now that set is

usually also the podium everybody's

asked to be quiet

and from the outward it looks like

nothing is happening and it is

rightfully so because everything

is happening deep internally

now in in the walk of Jesus Christ that

sit moment

is the moment of the oil press

and the moment of wait.

Does anybody know what is God's oil

press?

Has anyone Oh, let me see. You can just

lift up. Has any been somebody been in

the oil press of God?

Can you just

Okay. All right. Okay.

So the oil press if we take it

definitionually wise like they would do

the olive oil um that is a machine to

extract oil from the olives by applying

pressure to the olives right spiritually

seen it's an intense

sacrificial and transformative process

Um, it is from a deep instruction of the

true valuable that is actually inside of

you. And though it is extremely painful,

it is extremely intense,

it actually from that brings forth joy,

a deep joy. Um, like the olives, if you

eat them, I don't know if anybody ate

olives raw. Did anybody eat olives raw?

They extremely bitter.

And interesting enough, if you go and

research, I don't know, I can't remember

the biological name, but there is a

certain name that the olive have on

around them

for selfp protection.

And it was like so that the animals

won't just eat it and and people, you

know, if animals come to eat it, then it

is has a bitter taste to it. And I was

just thinking taking it prophetically,

spiritually, I think that our trying to

protect ourselves also creates this

bitterness. And so that olives just as

it is not tasteful, is not used.

Actually, it is only after it has been

pressured,

crushed,

pressed out that we get that beautiful

um utilities out of olive oil. And that

is exactly what we're going through. And

sitting here and talking about it, it's

like, oh,

but those who've gone through it, you

will understand. It's a very it's

pressing and crushing of many sides.

It's intense.

Um it is something in your whole being

just wants to escape from it or you just

want to fix it. So olives are pressed

the same olive is pressed three times.

The first time the pressing of the olive

is your best oil and that is what's used

for anointing oil.

Um, thank you for Yeah. I carb. Thank

you Melanie. Um,

so that is used for a sacrificial oil

and also

that oil is used for the lamps in the

temple in the old biblical times.

And that moment a deep re revelation

came for me. It's my opinion. It's not

something written. It's my opinion is

that I had this picture about the 10

virgin with the oil five. I just thought

okay must just always be ready. Just

walk always be obedient and everything.

And then I just came to me and I was

like no no no it's very costly. It is

having allowed God to press that oil so

that you have oil in the lamp

and also we say it often and so

how can I say like it's easy something

just happens without involvement of

oneself is that we always say new wine

can't go in old skin wine skin you know

how how it's how it's expanded and

renewed is like crushing it, crushing

those uh mindset limitations, crushing

us out of our comfort zones. So that is

that is what happens with the olive. So

the second time that they press out of

that is for healing. They use that oil

for healing and in different creams and

medication they put it in. The third

time they use it for soaps.

And what is so profound about that is

that Jesus Christ went also through

three times olive oil pressing.

So I want us somebody can somebody just

read for me uh Luke chapter 22. Somebody

can just open up for me there.

Good morning. I'm there. Which uh verse

do I read?

>> Um thank you so much. Um sir Roario, if