As a self-proclaimed “gold digger”, I have always looked for the “gold” in other people. While anyone can see their dirt, call out their flaws or devalue who they are, the Lord has taught me how to see the gold in them. For decades I have been digging for gold in other people. I have never been concerned about the dirt in their life, for once I see the gold, the dirt is just covering up the treasure of gold in them.

Now this morning, the Holy Spirit speaks to me and says, “It’s time to drill for oil!” I pondered this phrase all morning long and realized, I am not familiar with the process as it pertains to drilling for oil. After some research I learned there are two kinds of oil wells, dry wells and oil wells. This is why oil drilling is such a high risk, high reward reality. It can cost a lot of time and money only to find out the drilling for oil yielded no return on investment.

However, the Lord is saying a change is happening, the days of digging for gold are not over, but we are adding drilling for oil. Oil is trapped in rock, so not only does it take discernment to know what rock is trapping oil, but it also takes the ability to penetrate the rock so the oil can be released.

As I learned all this through study this morning, the Holy Spirit reminded me of Matthew 16:18 which says, “Upon this rock, I will build my church.” And how Jesus changed Simon’s name to Cephas, which means rock. This means when Jesus met Simon, he knew there was oil in him, so he called him a rock, but Jesus knew He was going to drill for oil in Peter and that Peter would produce multitudes of barrels of oil. Peter was not a dry well, he was a deep well of oil.

Now oil is the anointing and God has been and is drilling for oil in our lives, but it is locked up in the hard places in our lives we refuse to let Him penetrate. Get ready friends, not only is God having us dig for gold in people, but He is now adding we must drill for oil. We must have oil come out of the body of Christ, for the anointing (oil) breaks the yoke.