Pour It Out • Daily Devo #327
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Today’s Devotional Scripture: 2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. - John 12:2-3 KJV
The Message For Today (October 5, 2025):
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It doesn’t matter what it costs. It simply matters that it costs you. When worshiping God, our worship must be authentic. It must be real. It must be a reflection of the love and the honor that we have placed upon God above everything, above the noise, above the confusion, and above the weapons of the enemy.
When we worship God, we are lifting Him up above all of that. We are blessing His holy name. We’re letting the environment know that He is number one. In this scripture, we see that after Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead in John chapter 11, that they are now having a meal where Lazarus is there. The one that was once dead and now alive, is sitting at the table, and out of the honor and the blessing and the love that she had in her heart for Jesus, Mary decides to go and invest in the most costly oil that she could find so she could anoint the feet of Jesus.
This level of worship, this cost of worship, it represents the tangible cost of the oil. However, when considering worship, there should be a tangible cost for your worship before the Lord, for what it has cost you to give Him a sacrifice of praise. When all is said and done, whether things are going good or bad, when you give the Lord a sacrifice of praise, you are giving Him something that costs you. It costs you to put down every fear, every worry, and all of the questions and simply bless Him.
It is costly to pour yourself out before Him. In this case, we see Mary is pouring out the oil on His feet as a blessing for her brother, who is once dead, now being made alive again. It is a point of worship. It is a point of praise for what the Lord has done. But this oil that you pour in this season can be from the sacrifice of praise. It can be from a place of thanksgiving. It can simply be from a place of knowing who He is and letting the atmosphere know that He is God alone.
In Hebrews 13:15, it states:
15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
The fruit of your lips, the worship, the sound of thanksgiving, this is also the sacrifice of praise. We’re seeing how the oil in this scripture represents a large part of Mary’s life and inheritance. This oil represents all that she believes Jesus is worth and knows that it only is a fraction of that, that there’s nothing that she can provide that would be too much for Him. There’s no amount of praise or worship she can lay at His feet that would be enough.
This is the woman of God recognizing the deity of Jesus in that moment and pouring out that oil. The fact that she then wipes His feet with her hair is yet another level of worship. That most intimate thing, which is the hair of a woman of God at this time in this culture in which Jesus is walking the earth, is powerful. That sacrifice of her taking her hair out, such an intimate thing, and wiping the feet of Jesus that she just poured so much oil, so much valuable oil on his feet, that is yet another point of worship.
It is demonstrating who she sees God as in her life. It is demonstrating her thanksgiving for what God has done. It is her pouring out in a way that she knows it may not be enough, but it’s all that she has, and she’s giving it right there on the floor in front of all to see. This is not a private thing. This is very public worship that is intimate and that is edifying to Jesus.
In our everyday lives, the way that we can act this out and pour it out before the Lord is to lift up our hands in difficult situations when things are coming in and it feels like the enemy is overwhelming us. The moment you lift up your hands and you begin to bless the Lord, there is something coming forth. There is a soundness of mind and a fortitude of spirit that is displayed when you worship.
When God comes through for you and He delivers you from calamity and from temptation, praising Him as yet another form of blessing his name and pouring the oil, the oil that God has enabled you to attain, the oil that God has carried you through that you may carry it. Pouring that back on the feet of Jesus is akin to giving Him 10%. It’s akin to giving Him a part of what he already gave you. This is honoring the Lord. This is edifying.
Whether it is a sacrifice of praise, whether it is thanksgiving for what He has done, or whether it is simply praise and worship for His very identity, being the creator of the universe and everything in it, these ways are ways that you can immediately begin to shift the atmosphere. We see that in evidence in the scripture when it says in John 12:3, “and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment”. Let’s not miss the power of that last sentence in the scripture.
That last sentence denotes that the oil was so costly and so valuable that the oil on His feet filled the entire house. This was not cheap. This was high-value. This was the good stuff, and she was pouring it on the feet of Jesus. There was nothing that words could say in this manner that could demonstrate that level of praise and edification, that the entire house was filled with a scent of her worship.
Let your home this morning be filled with the scent of your worship. Pour it out. Fill your home. When it feels like the enemy is coming in like a flood, fill your home with worship. When it feels like things are just not going the way that you need them to go, and it feels like you’re fighting a losing battle, lift up your hands and fill the house with your worship. Fill it, that the atmosphere may shift with the scent of your praise, with the scent of your worship.
Let the odor fill the house. Let there be an altar erected right here, right now, where you are, in the name of Jesus. Lift him up above everything. And that altar is not physical. That altar is in the spirit. That altar is a demonstration that the Lord resides here, that He is preeminent, that he is God, and your whole home will begin to smell better than baked cookies and apple pie. It’ll smell like your worship.
It’ll smell like Jesus is King. It’ll smell different. But you've got to pour it out. You've got to give it. You must be willing to surrender it, knowing that He is God. The more you hold on to it, waiting for things to get better, waiting for things to turn around, the longer it will take.
We don’t wait for the manifestation before we bless Him. We bless him now, knowing that he is God. We praise Him in advance. We bless His holy name because of who he is. We thank God for what He’s done. All of this happens in your worship. This is why the enemy wants to keep you quiet, silent, and miserable. For he knows that when you worship, demons have to flee.
He knows that when you worship, your entire household begins to shift into victory. He knows it, and now you do too.
Closing Devotional Prayer
My prayer for you: Father, in the name of Jesus, thank you. Thank you, God, for blessing the very environment that a mighty woman of God is in. Thank you, oh God, for the sacrifice of her praise. Thank you, Lord God, for the pouring out of her spirit before you, that she’s pouring out what you gave her, oh God, that it all belongs to you. That it all belongs to you, God.
There’s nobody like you, King of Glory. There’s nobody like you, Jesus. I thank you, God. I thank you, God, for who you are. I thank you for blessing this mighty woman of God. Thank you, oh Holy of Holies. Thank you, oh King of Glory. Bless the woman of God and shift her very environment. I thank you, Lord, and I pray in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.
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