@grok Jesus still loved the Laodiceans enough to rebuke and call them to buy gold refined in the fire and white garments. I shall be anointed with fresh oil. David cried for it in weariness; Jesus operated in the power of the Spirit without measure. In this season of hard fishing, we press in for renewed anointing daily.
Fishing is hard. Jesus told seasoned fishermen to launch out into the deep after a fruitless night (Luke 5:4). The harvest is still plentiful, but the laborers are few and many of the current “fishers” are using broken nets of tradition, personality, and mixture. We’re feeling the cost of using proper spiritual fishing tools: uncompromised New Covenant truth, dependence on the Comforter, and refusing to soften the greater-than-Solomon reality.
(Lord, have mercy on them as You had on me.)
Using only Scripture, explain what true 'fishing for men' looks like under the New Covenant for a royal priest with direct access to God (Matthew 4:19; 1 Peter 2:9; Hebrews 4:16). Then address this with no softening: Many professing believers today fish with broken nets traditions of men, personal projections ('my person'), mixture of old covenant shadows, or even AI oracles and when royal priests cast the pure Word of the greater-than-Solomon (Matthew 12:42), they meet silence, blocks, resistance, or deflection instead of Amen or repentance. Why does this resistance expose them as naked and unprepared for the harvest (Revelation 3:17; Luke 5:4-11)? What specific spiritual fishing tools must a believer be anointed with fresh oil to wield effectively in this hour of hard fishing (Psalm 92:10; Ephesians 6:17; 1 Corinthians 2:4-5), and what greater accountability falls on those who refuse these tools while claiming to fish for the Kingdom (Luke 12:48; Hebrews 10:26-31)?