What never ceases to amaze me is how different destinations and various locations unlock in us fresh revelations. When we live with an open ear to hear what the spirit is saying, He will speak from the land on which you are standing. Psalm 24 tells us “the Earth is the Lords and the fullness there of”. Every land we place our foot on releases to us what is on it and in it if we are open to receive it.

Being in the Houston area this weekend, I have learned much about the land on which I’m standing. With nearly 4,000,000 people in this area the traffic is bountiful to say the least. I asked my host, “Why have so many people have come to Houston?” The answer was one word… Oil. People flock to Houston because there is money in oil.

While in prayer this morning, the Lord said to me, “It wasn’t coincidental that the first place you were taken to was an oil store.” My host took me into a location where anointing oil was made, and it was a pure delight experience for me and the first one I had on this trip. Then we went to another friend’s house and she told me about her Olive tree in her backyard as we did a tour of her property. Yet again, the theme of oil has come up while in this area.

Now this morning during my prayer time, I start singing a phrase, Holy Spirit you are the oil and the wine. While singing this over and over again, the Holy Spirit dropped the verse in Revelation 6:6 into my spirit that says “Do not harm the oil and the wine”.

The apocalyptic literature of Revelation 6:6 has to do with inflated prices and political conflict, but the hope in these passages is that there is a declaration from the throne of God that says “Chaos has boundaries and it is not allowed to touch the oil and the wine”. The rabbinical Jews believed that national or international conflict and chaos was a form of purging or preparing for messianic redemption. No wonder John said do not touch the oil and the wine.

No matter what you may be going through right now, never forget God has put boundaries on conflicts and chaos and has declared over your situation. Do not touch the oil and the wine in that person‘s life, in that nation, in that community, in that church, in that city. The boundary line has been set and will not be crossed so when the dust settles get ready because God is about to unlock the vats of oil and the barrels of wine inside of you.