New Wine Skins

Apostle Grace Lubega

Matthew 9:17(NIV); Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved

Wine skins were not old because of their age. What made them old was because it had been a long time since they had last been washed in oil. Therefore, to make them new, old wineskins were soaked in oil to enable them hold new wine.

I have heard some young Christians disregard the elderly folk as ‘old wineskins’ in the understanding that this has anything to do with age. Not so, child of God.

A wine skin may have been made thirty years ago but was washed in oil yesterday. That makes it new.

There is a wine skin that was made last year but has never been washed in oil since then. That is an old wine skin.

There are new wineskins in sixty year old bodies and there are old wineskins in twenty two year old bodies.

The difference is this; when was the last time you were washed in oil? When did you last hear God? When did you last soak in His presence? When did you last yield to His power and His touch?

It doesn’t matter your age or how long you have been in the gospel.

The principle is clear; those that are planted in the house of the Lord flourish in His courts. Even in their old age, they bear fruit (Psalm 92:13-14).

God wants you to grow in the anointing and also grow the anointing upon your life.

He wants you to age in the anointing that by the time you leave this earth, you are not merely anointed but the anointing is the only thing that truly defines you.

Glory to God!

FURTHER STUDY: Psalms 92:13-14, Psalms 27:4

GOLDEN NUGGET:

God wants you to grow in the anointing and also grow the anointing upon your life. He wants you to age in the anointing that by the time you leave this earth, you are not merely anointed but the anointing is the only thing that truly defines you.

PRAYER: Loving Father, I thank you for this Word. I thank you for the freshness of revelation, knowledge and understanding. The Bible says that every day, you load me with benefits, that there is new bread and oil for each day. What I had yesterday was great but my heart is open for that of today. What I had last week was wonderful but I am ready for today’s too. For as long as I live, my testimony will be of the new things you are pouring out. That in all things, both the ancient oil and the new oil will flow out of my spirit. In Jesus’ name, Amen.