As in the natural, so in the spirit. The price of the oil of God, the anointing, the Holy Spirit, is coming at a greater price than ever before in this end time we’re in.

Man’s black oil, is highly coveted and therefore perpetuates greed, materialism, consumerism, and many evils stemming from this love for money. These all are ways and values diabolically opposed to the ways of God and His Kingdom.

You might complain about the prices at the gas pumps, but still pay it. How much are you willing to ‘pay’ to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward?

I press on to lay hold of (grasp) and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus (the Messiah) has laid hold of me and made me His own. I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward. So let those [of us] who are spiritually mature and full-grown have this mind and hold these convictions; and if in any respect you have a different attitude of mind, God will make that clear to you also.

Philippians 3:12-15 [Amplified Bible]

Calling ourselves Christians won’t cut it. Tithing won’t, church attendance won’t, Bible reading won’t, money to charities won’t either. For this prize, more, much more is required. Not works, but faith, and not an idle faith. A faith that walks the talk. A faith that trusts the spirit of God more than the arm of flesh, the ways of man and this world.

For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.  (Philippians 3:18-19)

The Spirit has been whispering to me the scripture about where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Where are your treasures? In your SUV? Vacation? Fine furnishings? Fashion? RRSP’s? Businesses? Career? Church volunteering? Calling earthly things ‘Christian’ doesn’t make them Godly.

If God asked you to give it up for more of Him, that you could feed and clothe the natural and spiritually starved and lacking, how much could you, and how much would you give up? This much, but no more? Or all? All that you have and all that you can acquire? Or would you always look to hold something back for yourself?

To the extent that we are still enmeshed in with the ways of the world, we are still in Egypt. To the extent that we have exceeding difficulty to let go of our attachments to things and the ways of the world system, Egypt is still in us.

We all know this is the end times. Think about what it is the end of. I think God is saying to many of us, it is the end of the flesh. It is the end of this time you have been in Babylon/Egypt. He is calling us onward and upward. This comes at a price. The path gets narrower here. Few there are that find it.

This oil is exceedingly great. If you’ll pay it at the pumps of the world, how much are you willing to pay for the Kingdom of God and His righteousness?