codyjefferson@IG
THE UNSEEN AGONY
OF ANNOINTING.
"Jeremiah was anointed in the womb.
But his reward?
Mocked.
Beaten.
Thrown into a pit.
Called the "weeping prophet."
He carried words
that burned inside him.....
Words no one wanted to hear.
Ever feel like obedience
made you lonelier,
not stronger?
That's the oil;
It will cost you your reputation.
Hosea's whole life
became a sermon.
God told him to marry a woman
who would break his heart
again and again.
Why?
To show Israel His covenant love.
Imagine the whispers,
the humiliation, the ache.
His marriage was his ministry.
His pain was his pulpit.
Ever felt like your personal life
became collateral for your calling?
That's the oil;
It will cost you your pride.
Ezekiel was called a watchman.
But his ministry?
Laying on his side for 390 days.
To eat food baked over dung.
To act out sermons no one respected.
Ever feel like God asked you to do something
that made no sense and cost you credibility?
That's the oil;
It will cost you
your comfort.
John wasn't polished.
He was peculiar.
Filled with the Spirit from the womb.
His pulpit? The wilderness.
His diet? Locusts and honey.
His message?
Repent or perish.
And his "thank you"?
Beheaded in a prison cell.
Ever felt like
your obedience
took you further
from influence instead of closer?
That's the oil;
It will cost you your safety.
Paul's anointing
didn't look like influence...
It looked like lashes,
prisons, and shipwrecks.
He wrote letters
that shaped eternity...
while chained in cells
nobody visited.
Ever feel like your greatest work
is being forged in a season nobody sees?
Or like your greatest assignment
is being fulfilled in the very place
that's breaking you?
That's the oil;
It will cost you your body.
Mary shattered her alabaster jar:
a year's wages, gone in seconds.
The room called it reckless.
Wasteful. Embarrassing.
But Jesus said,
"She has done a beautiful thing for Me."
True anointing
will always offend the practical,
because the world measures
cost in money....
but Heaven measures cost
in devotion.
Ever felt mocked
for loving God
with a kind of abandon
that made others uncomfortable?
(NOT MY PROBLEM!)
That's the oil;
It will cost you your treasure,
your logic, and your reputation.
Job didn't just lose wealth.
He buried children.
Buried health.
Buried reputation.
His friends accused him.
His wife told him to curse God.
But in ashes, he whispered,
"Though He slay me,
yet will I trust Him."
(Would you say that
and believe it to be true?
If you cant even believe
Gods word while in comfort?
You will never know
till that day comes.
Anybody can have faith
in comfort.
Show me something...)
Ever felt like God
stripped away everything secure,
leaving you with nothing but faith?
(Where else you gonna go?
When you aint got no place
to go to?)
That's the oil;
It will cost you your security.
Stephen's sermon
cut through
hardened hearts,
and they silenced him
with stones.
As his body broke,
his face still shone
like an angel.
And with his final breath,
he forgave.
This is the paradox of anointing:
Heaven shines brightest
as earth strikes hardest.
Ever felt like
obedience
might cost you
not just your platform,
but your very life?
That's the oil;
It will cost you everything.
So before you ask
for the oil...
Count the cost.
Because it will strip you
like Jeremiah.
Humble you like Hosea.
Crush you like Ezekiel.
Break your body like Paul.
Empty your treasure like Mary.
Shatter your security like Job.
And even demand your life
like Stephen.
But the crushing is not the end.
It's the confirmation.
This is
the unseen agony
of anointing.
I heard somebody say yesterday:
"You cant kill martyrdom."
YOU READY TO DIE?
FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE?
Cause me and honey
have been ready
for a good while now.
Keep throwing stones at us.
And we will just build mansions
in heaven with em.
Promise...
