This is a transcription of an excerpt of the Life in the Faith Lane broadcast on January 16, 2023, where Annamarie Strawhand answered questions from viewers about anointing oil and Communion supplies.
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ANNAMARIE: She uses unfractionated coconut oil while using essential oils like frankincense and myrrh in roller bar, roller balls to make, to make it especially [Inaudible] Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
You know, I wouldn’t do that. I mean, if you’re going to use coconut oil, uh, you know, for health purposes, that’s one thing, but Jesus and the Holy Spirit and the Bible is very clear about olive oil — olive oil, olive oil, olive oil. There is biblical reference to olive oil.
RockStarMiracle, listen to me. Please, listen to me, and I’m not trying to be religious or judgmental. I, it’s, I have a responsibility to teach you the word of God. I would not use unfractionated coconut oil as your anointing oil. It specifically says olive oil. Now, if you’re going to put frankincense and myrrh in your olive oil because it’s biblical and you’re using roller balls, uh, to me there’s something about touching. There’s something about pouring. The Bible says we, when we touch somebody, we’re releasing the power of the Holy Ghost. There’s an impartation that happens.
So, RockStarMiracle, I’m going to advise you as a coach and mentor — you came here for teaching; you came here for advice — to go according to the word of God. Do not use unfractionated coconut oil as your anointing oil. Let’s stay according to the word of God and use olive oil, and if you want to add frankincense and myrrh in it because it’s biblical — frankincense is pleasing to God. It represents kingship. Myrrh was used in, uh, with Esther, you know to, to cleanse her as, as a queen. Jesus was buried in, with myrrh. Um, there’s something about the touching and the releasing of the Holy Spirit, the impartation when you touch someone and anoint them. And there’s something about the pouring directly from the bottle like King David, you see?
Um, see Jesus was touching his disciples’ feet by washing them and anointing them. See there’s, He was giving, you don’t realize, but what He was doing was, He wasn’t, it wasn’t just an act of humility, it was an impartation. It was this last supper. It was an impartation. There’s something about the touching, you know, and using roller balls might be convenient, but it’s not that, it’s not very sacred or special. You see, there’s something about a touching, about your hands, and even if you’re, re, you know, you’re not going to take your roller ball and like release the roller ball in the spirit, you know?
What I do is if I’m releasing something in the spirit, I get it on my hands. I’m releasing it, you see, releasing. There’s something about the raising up of the, of the hands and releasing. There’s this impartation.
So, please, I’m just saying get into the word of God, okay, and, and do what God’s word says with this, and honor His word with olive oil. You know, I’ve had some people that have sent me oils with roller balls, and I’ve never, ever used them. I just, I just don’t feel any connection with them. They might as well have just sent me a bottle of perfume.
Yes, RockStarMiracle says she helps with holistic essential oils in Jesus Christ’s name, Yeshua’s name. It’s healed her and her family with essential oils to stay away from hospitals.
I’m not saying you can’t use oils to help with healing. God gave us everything in the earth to help with our healing, right, with herbs and things like that. But when you are going to anoint a person, speak scripture over them, pray over them, set them aside for God, use what the Bible says and do it in the way of the word of God because if we get to loose with this, we might as well be doing new age.
We got to be really careful because you see it was like, “Well, it’s okay if I just this time. It’s okay for this time.” You know, that’s how we start to get lukewarm. It, it starts to open up a door to the enemy. You see? And we got to be really careful. I’m not saying that to be religious or ritualistic about this. I’m just saying that you want to honor God’s word. What did God say?
You see, this is how the enemy comes in with a lying, twisting spirit like he did with Eve. “Oh, Eve, that fruit on that tree looks good. It’s good for you. It’s got a lot of nutritional value. Did God really say? Did God really say, Eve? Did God really say?” And Eve looked at the tree, and it looked good, but God said NO. God said NO!
You see, this is what happens. People say, “Oh, well, God says use olive oil, uh, eh, for, to anoint a person and pray over them and dedicate them to God and set them aside with God. And then here comes that slithering serpent, “Did God really say use olive oil? Did He really say? Ooh, look at this fractionated coconut oil. Has a lot of healing properties. It’s good for you. It must be good.” But God didn’t say use coconut oil.
You see how the enemy can start with one little thing? And even if you’re, you’re doing this in the name of Jesus Christ, Yeshua, that’s good, but what did God’s word say? See, Jesus is the word. Jesus is the one that said olive oil. So if He’s the word, how are you really honoring Jesus when Jesus said olive oil to begin with? Okay? And I’m not trying to be religious or judgmental or ritualistic. I’m just saying be very, very, very careful. So when you start to get lukewarm about one thing it opens the door to more.
Should you pray over things you’re doing? You should pray over your food. You should pray over any medicine you take. You should pray over your groceries. You should pray over any perfume. You should pray over your shampoo. You should pray over, you know, you should pray over anything you put on your body. I do, but I use it as a, a, set aside thing for God? No, because He said it’s the, it’s the olive oil that’s set aside. You see, uh, uh, you’ve got to be really careful. Some things are pleasing to God and some things aren’t.
You should watch a video right now with, uh, uh, Sergio and Rhoda in Israel. They travel all over Israel and go to these sites in Israel that, uh, are biblical sites. And they went to this site in Israel, and these were Jewish people that believed in the Lord God of Israel, and these Jewish people made a temple, and somehow they got mixed in with the Pagans where they were living — Pagan influence, right, some Pagan influence. And the Pagans said, “Oh, we burn Cannabis on our altar. You should try it.”
Well, God didn’t say burn Cannabis on the altar. God said Frankincense because Frankincense is pleasing to the nostrils of God. God specifically said, “Only burn incense to Me that is pleasing unto My nostrils.”
And so these people got mixed in with the Pagans, and they started burning Cannabis on their altar, and what happened? They opened up a door. God lifted their [sic] hand off of them, and the city got destroyed. You can go watch it on Sergio and Rhoda in Israel.
We must do what God says is pleasing unto Him. And we know what God has made clean is clean. He was talking about your food. You understand that, right? And any cosmetics and things like that, absolutely. Do certain things have healing properties? Yes, we know from Moses, um, that when the Children of Israel got across the Red Sea, they were thirsty, and they were looking for clean water to drink. And they came to a pool of water, and it was dirty, and God said to Moses, “Take that tree branch, stick it in the water, and stir it up, and make the water clean.”
They believe that was a tree branch from a Moringa tree because Moringa has very cleansing properties, right? And is it good to take Moringa, right, because it has cleansing properties? Yeah, there’s a lot of natural things that God has given us on the earth that are cleansing. We know that King David, when he was repenting, he said, “Cleanse me with hyssop. Wash me white as snow.? We know that the, the hyssop plant is very prevalent, grows very prevalent in Israel, and the Jews used it to make soap and cleansing and things like that.
So, yes, He wants us to use herbs and things natural of the earth, but the, the, the anointing oil is set aside for God because this smell goes up into God’s nostrils. It draws Him closer to you and your child. You understand? The, the actual anointing oil made with these ingredients in Israel and has the frankincense in it, um, the, that smell is pleasing to God’s nostrils, right? It draws you near. And the olive oil is what? It’s spoken of in the Bible over and over, and it has great meaning. It’s connected to every single scripture of the Holy Ghost. So I hope that helps.
“I think it gets confusing when we’re told we can use the goldfish for Communion if that’s all we have, but it’s different for the anointing. The difference may need to be explained about Communion elements.”
This is what I explained to you the other day. If it’s your first time here for Communion and you want to partake, and all you have is a cookie or a goldfish or water, right, if it’s all you have right now, just use that in faith. But then go out and get the actual elements.
So this is how I teach for first-timers here. Your not supposed to keep using goldfish. You’re not supposed to keep using cookies. You’re not supposed to keep using water, but if it’s your first time here on my broadcast and you want to partake of Communion, and all you have at hand at that moment is that, we will ask Jesus to honor that.
I’m not saying keep doing it. I’m saying after that, if you want to keep taking Communion, put your feet to your faith, go to the store, buy the elements. Right? Buy the grape juice. Buy the matzah. Does that explain it to you? If it’s all you have at the time, and you’re a first-timer, it’s all you have, just use what you have at hand, and we ask Jesus to honor it at that moment because it’s what you have at hand. But afterwards, you know better, right, then go out and get what you know. Same thing with the anointing.
See, Jesus says people with lack of knowledge perish. People perish for lack of knowledge. But once you know, right, once you know, go out and get the actual elements. Get the grape juice. Right? Get the kosher wine, or get the kosher grape juice, or get the matzo like Jesus used.
You see, there comes a point where we have to get off the milk and on the meat. We have to grow in the Lord. Our heart has to want that. So if I have first-time people here on Friday, and they’ve never taken Communion with me before, and they don’t already have the elements there of the matzo and of the kosher wine or the, or the grape juice, the Kedeem grape juice, then I say, “Listen, I don’t want to leave anyone out from the Lord’s table. If all you have is a goldfish or if all you have is a cookie, then use it.” But then you know better because of what I taught you. You have the knowledge now. You have the understanding now to do what Jesus did. Then, go out and get it. You understand what I’m saying? You understand me?
Exodus 30:31-33 “And you shall say to the people of Israel, ‘This shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations. It shall not be poured on the body of an ordinary person. You shall make it like no other in composition. It is holy. It shall be holy to you. Whoever compounds like this, whoever puts it off on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.”
So we have to be reverant, and, you know … “Is it okay to use sesame oil?” NO! OLIVE OIL! Olive oil. Listen, go to my website, annamariestrawhand.com. It teaches you everything on the anointing oil — what to use, why, the scriptures connected to it, the prayers, uh, you know, and everything. All right?
Like I said, there are people that have been here for the first time, or they’re, they’re in a, they’re in a pinch with Communion, and they don’t have the elements right there. And I don’t want to refuse them from the Lord’s table, so that’s why I said just use what you have at hand, and we’re just going to release our faith into it. But from this point forward, if you want to take Communion, go out and get the proper elements. Right?
We should keep growing in the Lord. We should keep growing in His word. We have to get off the milk and into the meat eventually. Does this teach you something?
Jenna Scott says, “Yes, it makes perfect sense.” Thank you, Jenna. You know, I don’t want to refuse anyone from the Lord’s table. So many people come to my broadcast for the first time, and they say, “I don’t have any grape juice. I don’t have any matzo.” You know? And I say, “Okay, use what you have at hand. We don’t want to refuse anybody from the Lord’s table. We’re going to ask God for His grace and mercy. We’re going to pray over it, and we’re going to ask Jesus to release His blood on it. If all you have is a goldfish, and all you have his water, this first time, right, just release your faith. But going forward, go and get those elements now that you know.”
See, Jesus would heal people. Listen to me. Jesus would heal people. He would heal them, and then he would say, “Now, go and sin no more or it could be worse.” What? Why would Jesus tell someone after He heals them to go and sin no more or it could be worse? Because now they have the knowledge of Christ. Now they know. You see? So once you know the true elements that must be used in Communion, that Jesus used, and once you know that the true anointing oil that God said we should use, once you have that knowledge, you should honor it.
Do we have grace and mercy if we mess up? Absolutely. God is always calling us deeper. This is not about religion. It’s about relationship. It’s not about being perfect, but it’s about coming into what? What? The image of Christ. You see, when you receivemJesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, that’s just the beginning, and the sanctification process starts and you should keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking and all these things will be added unto you. You don’t just say, “Hey, okay, I receive Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. I’m just going to sit in church. I’m good. I’m good. I’m going to Heaven. I’m good.” No! That’s when it just begins, and they sanctification process starts.
We have to conform more into the image of who? Jesus! And if you’re not constantly seeking to conform to the image of Jesus, you’re not growing at all. You’re just sitting stagnant, and it opens the door for you to do a yoga class at church because they’ve gotten stagnant. They’re not trying to grow anybody in the Holy Ghost. They’re not trying to grow anybody. All they care about is salv, saving souls. That’s important, but what about growing them?
You see, the church is all about, “Oh, we got to get people saved. We got to get them saved. We got to get them saved.” Yes, salvation is important, but what about the growth afterward? So if your church is all about salvation and not the growth after salvation, you’re sitting in a stagnant church. And what happens? They start to market. What happens to churches that do marketing, to market people just to save their soul and not grow them? They start having Santa Claus show up for pictures. They start doing yoga classes.
LISTEN TO ME! If your church is only focused on saving souls, salvation of the Lord Jesus Christ, but don’t have anything in that church to grow people into the Lord, to grow people more into the image of Christ, they’re just going to be a recycling marketing joint because all they do is, ‘Well, we got to get people in here. We got to get them to salvation, and as long as we got butts in the pews, that’s all that matters. Ooh, we need to get more people in here. Let’s bring Santa Claus in to take pictures with the kids. That ought to bring in more people. And then if it brings more people in, then we can bring them to Jesus Christ, but we have no way to grow them. Oh, hey, well, let’s see if we can bring more women into the church. Hey, okay, let’s bring more women into the church. We don’t have any growth programs. We just want to get them to salvation. Let’s start a yoga class on Saturday. That ought to get the women in the church. Yeah, okay, yoga.”
And you know what happens? That church becomes lukewarm because the church is focused on marketing and not growing people into the image of Christ, not discipling them into the image of Christ to disciple more people. It just becomes a marketing machine. And is it important to bring people to the salvation of the Lord Jesus Christ? Absolutely? But even more important, after people are saved, they must have a growth plan because we must get off the milk and into the meat like Paul said.
We’ve got to pick up our cross and follow Jesus all the way into the kingdom. We’ve got to make disciples of people. They have to conform into the image of who? Christ! And if people get saved and they’ve got no growth, right, “Okay, I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, now what?” And your church doesn’t offer the now what, you’re going to stay stuck. You’re going to stay lost. You’re going to revert back to those feel-good spiritual things like yoga, Reiki, and, uh, you know, all that other stuff because they’re not offering spiritual growth in the church.
Listen! This ministry is a now what ministry! We want to bring people to the salvation of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we are the now what. After you receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior then you can come here and can grow in the Lord, and we will disciple you here so you can go out and disciple others — no gimmicks, just Jesus and how to grow in the Holy Ghost and how to disciple yourself in the word of God, through the word of God and become more of, of conforming yourself to the image of Christ. And we’ve got to want that. We’ve got to be hungry for that. Do you understand?
You see, all these big evangelists, they go out there and they go to Africa, and they say, “Three thousand people gave their life to Christ today.” Well, that’s good. Now, what? Are there any programs to grow these people, especially in Africa where they, they got witchcraft and voo doo and all kinds of other stuff? It’s so easy for them to backslide and revert back into that when they have no continuing education in Christ. Are you getting this?
That’s right, Karen. “Isn’t it the same as we learn in the word that as a Christian, we beome accountable for it?” That’s right. So once you know and once you know the truth and you know the word of God, right, then you must be accountable for it, but there’s so much joy that comes from it. There’s so much freedom that comes from it.
When I anoint myself in the Lord and with this oil, I can feel the Holy Ghost come on me. His presence is so strong. So many of you want that. I’m teaching you how.
Where can you find the matzo in the, Yehuda matzo? You can find it at Walmart in the international section. You can also buy it online. They have the matzo. They have the Kedem, uh, grape juice. They have it.
And I’m not saying this to be legalistic or judgmental or religious. I’m just saying you want to be more like Jesus. You want to have the desire to be more like Jesus. What kind of bread did he eat? What kind of, right? You want to be more like Him. You’ve got to want that. You’ve got to desire that. You’ve got to seek it. You want to do things more according to the word of God because the word of God is the will of God for your life. And when you’re doing things according to the word of God, you bring in His presence in your life like never before. Come on.
Jo McNeil says this fasting time spent with the Holy Spirit has been so amazing, sweet, and beautiful. She has so many songs in her heart for her wonderful Savior. She feels such a celebration right now.
You see, there are people that are scared to fast because they think they’re going to feel terrible; they’re going to feel miserable. But look at Jo McNeil here. She has unspeakable joy during this fast, unspeakable joy because we’re doing it as Jesus would do it when we start to conform more like Him and be, we want, we desire that. This unspeakable joy comes to us, and it’s beautiful and it’s glorious.
Thank you, Jennifer, for the word. John 5:14 “Afterward, Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, ‘Behold, thou are made whole. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.’”
So that was the man at the pool of Bethesda, uh, that Jesus healed and said, “Pick up your mat and walk.” And he didn’t get to thank Jesus because Jesus, uh, walked away swiftly, and He saw the man at the temple again, and he said, “Oh, you, you, you were the one that healed me.” And Jesus, they saw each other, and Jesus said, “You’ve been made whole. Now you know. Now you know the truth of the power of God.” Right? “Now, as the Messiah, you’ve seen the Messiah. You’ve experienced Him, go and sin no more. Lead a life of honor, lest you come on worse.”
Why? Because if you know the truth and you keep sinning … Now, listen, nobody can be perfect. Nobody’s perfect because that’s why we all need Jesus, but if you mess up, just repent. Say, “Lord, I messed up. I was being really sloppy about this, and I want to be better. I want to be more like You, Jesus. I want to have a deeper relationship with You. I thank You for this understanding. I want to be, um, I want this Communion time to be more precious. I want it to be more like You. I want this anointing time to be more precious. I want it to be more like You.” So just repent and ask for grace, mercy, and forgiveness. Ask Jesus to put His blood on it, and it’s forgotten. It’s erased, and then just start over. And all of Heaven is rejoicing because you’re growing.
Notes, Scriptures, and Resources
Holy Oils For Anointing: “You want to smell like the Lord Jesus did when He came out of the tomb — anointed in Frankincense and Myrrh!!! The demons still remember that smell and flee!!!! Frankincense is pleasing to the nostrils of God, and myrrh was used by Esther to prepare her to meet the king.
Exodus 30:34-38
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Take for yourself spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, spices with pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each. With it you shall make incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, and holy. You shall beat some of it very fine, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it shall be most holy to you.
The incense which you shall make, you shall not make in the same proportions for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for the Lord. Whoever shall make any like it, to use as perfume, shall be cut off from his people.
HOLY OILS MUST BE SET ASIDE FOR PRAYER AND DEDICATION ONLY. NEVER USE AS “PERFUME” OR “ESSENTIAL” OILS. THESE ARE FOR PRAYER AND DEDICATION – HOLY UNTO GOD – A SPECIAL OIL JUST FOR HIM!
Olive Oil For Anointing: Understand that it has to be oil and olive oil, because you’re setting yourself a side as an offering onto God.
1 Samuel 16:1 NLT – Now the LORD said to Samuel, “You have mourned long enough for Saul. I have rejected him as king of Israel, so fill your flask with olive oil and go to Bethlehem. Find a man named Jesse who lives there, for I have selected one of his sons to be my king.”
See this article, “The Tradition of Olive Oil As an Anointing Oil,” for more information about the use of olive oil for anointing in the Bible.
Where to get supplies: Click on the links below to find anointing and Communion supplies that would be similar to what was used in the Bible and that Jesus Himself used.
Yehuda Matzo https://www.walmart.com/ip/Yehuda-Unsalted-Matzo-Thins-10-5-oz/14172024
Kedem Kosher Grape Juice https://www.walmart.com/ip/Kedem-Single-Serve-8oz-Grape-Juice/632625832
Manischewitz Concord Kosher Red Wine https://www.walmart.com/ip/Manischewitz-Concord-Kosher-Red-Wine-1-5L/23554819
Olive Oil & Anointing Oil From Israel
https://www.myolivetree.com/shop/
https://gloriouscreations.net/index.php/shop/
How To Use Anointing Oil And Take Communion: See links below for more information on using anointing oil and taking Communion at home.
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