The Oil Room

04/06/2026

What a Fool I Am, Praying in a Hurry

“What a fool I am, praying in a hurry. How could I forget who created time?”

I rush into prayer the same way I rush through my day.

I bring my requests quickly, glance at the clock, and move on as if God were another appointment squeezed between responsibilities. My words race ahead, but my heart lags behind.

Then I remember:

The One I am speaking to is not bound by time.

He is the One who spoke the stars into existence. He set the sun in its place and determined the length of every day. Before clocks existed, before calendars were invented, before my next deadline ever appeared, God was already there.

How strange that I rush before the Creator of time.

Jesus never seemed hurried. Crowds pressed in around Him. People demanded His attention. Yet He always had time to stop, to listen, to heal, to pray. He lived at the pace of His Father, not at the pace of urgency.

Perhaps prayer was never meant to be another task to complete.

Perhaps prayer is God’s invitation to step out of the tyranny of time and into His presence.

The Lord is never anxious about tomorrow. He is never late. He is never overwhelmed by the size of my problems or the number of my requests. He holds every moment in His hands.

So today, I will slow down.

I will sit a little longer.

I will listen a little more.

And when I am tempted to rush through prayer, I will remember:

I am speaking to the One who created time itself.

Prayer

Father, forgive me for treating prayer like a task instead of a meeting with You. Teach me to slow down and rest in Your presence. Remind me that You are not in a hurry, and I do not need to be either. Help me trust the God who holds every second of my life in His hands. Amen.

18/05/2026

Feelings are real and should not simply be ignored or mocked. They can reveal wounds, desires, fears, or things we need to bring before God. But feelings were never meant to become our highest authority.

When our emotions contradict the truth of Scripture, we do not reshape God’s Word around our feelings — we allow His truth to lovingly shape us instead.

Following Jesus does not mean pretending we have no feelings. It means learning to surrender even our deepest emotions to the One who knows us fully and still lovingly leads us into truth and life 🤍

“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” — Jeremiah 17:9

But the passage does not end there:

“I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind…” — Jeremiah 17:10

And just a few verses before, Scripture says:

“Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord… They will be like a tree planted by the water.” — Jeremiah 17:7–8

The point is not that our feelings make us hopeless. The point is that our hearts alone are not always reliable guides for truth. That is why we need the Holy Spirit and the Word of God — not to crush us, but to root us deeply in the One who sees fully, loves perfectly, and leads faithfully.

17/05/2026

Sometimes God allows us to reach the end of ourselves so we can finally discover that He is enough. We try to control outcomes, hold onto people, force answers, and calm our fears with our own strength — but peace was never found in control. It is found in surrender.

“A lot can happen in a month. Trust God.”
One moment can change everything. One prayer can shift a heart. One season of waiting can produce deeper faith than years of comfort.

When all else fails, God doesn’t.
People change. Feelings fade. Plans collapse. But the faithfulness of God remains steady like the waves He commands.

And maybe that is why we must go to God first, not last. Not as a last resort when everything breaks apart, but as our first love, first wisdom, first refuge.

Loving God changes the way we love others too. The closer we are to Him, the more gentle, patient, truthful, and gracious we become.

So today, stop trying to carry what already belongs in God’s hands. Trust Him with the part you cannot see yet. He is already moving beneath the surface.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.”
— Proverbs 3:5–6

“God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.”
— Psalm 46:1

15/05/2026

Count your blessings!

15/05/2026

Sabbath is such a beautiful reminder that we are not machines. God, our Creator, knows the limits of our bodies, minds, and hearts better than we do. He did not command rest to control us, but to protect us. In a world that glorifies busyness, constant productivity, and never slowing down, Sabbath becomes holy resistance. Sometimes the enemy keeps us so distracted and exhausted that we no longer hear God clearly, care for our bodies properly, or even recognize how tired our souls have become. And slowly, our mental, emotional, and physical health begins to deteriorate.

God rested on the seventh day—not because He was tired, but because He was establishing a rhythm for humanity. Sabbath reminds us that the world keeps spinning even when we stop. We are not sustained by striving, but by Him. Rest is not laziness; it is trust. It is saying, “God, You are still God even when I pause.”

“Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” — Matthew 11:28

14/05/2026

14/05/2026

Sometimes we keep asking God to break every wall for us, while Jesus is already standing on the other side… waiting. Not because He is powerless. Not because He cannot tear the wall down in a second. He is omnipotent, omnipresent, fully able. But love does not always force its way in. Sometimes the wall remains because God is inviting you into surrender, because relationship cannot exist without response. We often want divine intervention without personal yielding. We pray for breakthrough while still reinforcing the very walls that keep us distant — pride, distraction, unforgiveness, hidden sin, fear, self-reliance, constant noise. And yet Jesus stays near. Patient. Knocking. Not absent, not indifferent, not unable, but longing for communion rather than control. Sometimes He calms storms instantly, and sometimes He asks Peter to step out of the boat first. Sometimes He parts seas, and sometimes He asks Israel to place their feet into the river before it opens. The first step of faith often looks small, trembling, almost insignificant, but heaven responds to surrender. And the beautiful thing is this: the moment you reach toward Him, you realize you were never breaking the wall alone. He was already there through every crack, already drawing you, already giving grace for the very surrender He asked of you. Jesus does not always storm through the barriers we build. Sometimes He knocks. Sometimes He waits. And sometimes the breakthrough begins with one trembling hand finally reaching back toward Him.

“Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in…” — Revelation 3:20

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.” — James 4:8

“Seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” — Matthew 7:7

14/05/2026

We often say, “Just trust God.”
But trust does not grow in distance.
It grows in intimacy.

You cannot deeply trust someone you never spend time with.
And the same is true with the Lord.

Trust is born when you sit with Him long enough to know His heart.
In prayer. In silence. In worship. In His Word.
You begin to realize He is not only powerful — He is good.

The more you know Him, the less you fear the unknown.

“Those who know Your name trust in You.” — Psalm 9:10

Maybe the answer is not trying harder to trust Him.
Maybe it is simply drawing nearer to Him.

14/05/2026

Do you think… when Jesus hung on the cross,
the smell of the wood reminded Him of home?

The same hands that shaped trees in creation
were pierced into one.

And still… He stayed.
For us.