Jul 4 • 💼 Business & Strategy
Back to the Oil: When Joy Returns Through Obedience
This week, I had to sit with some hard truths. I realized I’ve been investing in things that don’t actually help me pour the jar of oil God gave me. Like many of us, I fell into shiny object syndrome, thinking, if I just take this course, buy this program, follow this strategy… maybe this will be the thing that finally works. Some of it was good. Some of it helped for a season. But a few weeks ago, I asked God why I still felt stuck. Why, after all the investments, did it still feel like I wasn’t moving?
And He whispered, “Because you’re not pouring the jar of oil I actually gave you.”
I stopped. Looked at the books on my shelf. The unfinished manuscripts. The messages I’d buried. And it hit me, I wasn’t writing consistently. I wasn’t stewarding the one thing that had always brought me joy, impact, and even income.
So I made a decision.
I’m disconnecting from anything that doesn’t help me pour. From now on, it’s just YouTube, writing, and book funnels. Everything else? It can wait. Because I’ve spent too many years starting and stopping, stretching myself in ten different directions, hoping one of them would be the breakthrough. But now I know, I don’t need ten things. I need one thing, done faithfully.
And for me, that’s books. Helping authors. Marketing what God gave me. That’s my oil.
Even the joy returned as I helped an author publish their second book this week.
I also had to confront the doubt. But maybe the doubt wasn’t just the enemy. Maybe the reason I couldn’t fully believe… was because I was trying to force oil out of something that wasn’t my jar. Sometimes we feel frustrated because we’re asking God to bless something He never told us to pour. But the moment I aligned with the oil He actually gave me? Joy returned.
So here’s my challenge to you:
- Make a list of everything you’re trying to do right now.
- Ask yourself: “Why am I doing this? Is it bringing joy or just pressure?”
- What doubt or unbelief arise when I think about doing this jar of oil?
- Find the one thing you can do with peace and consistency, even if it doesn’t make money right away.
- Then decide: I’m going to stay here. Not for 90 days. Not until it’s hard. But until it multiplies.
Because multiplication starts with obedience and actually sticking with something. And obedience is staying with the oil even when it feels slow, even when it doesn’t pay off immediately, even when doubt creeps in.
So, what’s the one jar of oil you can do even if doubt comes?
Pick it up. Pour it again.
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Back to the Oil: When Joy Returns Through Obedience
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