This morning in my communion time with the Holy Spirit He mentioned that I should ask you what are you doing with all the words He has spoken to you concerning your life and future? Are you applying faith to those words and setting yourself up to take the necessary action or steps you need to take to see those words fulfilled in your life or are you basking in the fact that the Lord has spoken concerning your life and it will just happen?

The Holy Spirit wants you to receive the benefits of having revelation from God to propel you forward and not keep you stagnant marking time in the same spot being controlled by what you have power over and need to overcome to move forward.

With this in mind the Holy Spirit wants me to share some thoughts and insights on things you need to be doing on a daily basis that will keep you in a position of readiness and availability to lay hold of the promises of God.Jesus said in His conversation to His disciples in Luke.12:35-37 these words after He had relayed to them all the promises His Father would do for them these words: “Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning; 36 and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately. 37 Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching.

As we look at the importance of these words remember that in my posts before I have stressed the level of responsibility that is required of us as Followers of Jesus to steward the things He reveals to us meticulously with wisdom and uttermost care to ensure we follow His direction and be positioned correctly to see the manifestation of the promise.

Our waists need to be girded with truth that is totally surrounded and encompassed about with the truth on the matter at hand which the Lord wants to manifest, free from all deception and lies that will try to infiltrate our sphere. You will notice that the apostles Paul and Peter allude to “the word of girding ourselves which means God will not gird you so it is our responsibility to take the necessary actions to ensure we are girded with the truth the Holy Spirit gives us.” This also points out that we have what it takes in the word given to us by grace to gird ourselves and be protected.

Jesus also points out that our lamps should be burning which implies we should have more than enough oil in the lamps and have done what is necessary to remain alert no matter what delays may occur.

In 1 Peter.1:13-16 Peter reveals these truths: Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; 14 as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; 15 but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.” We can see here that Peter is further elaborating on what he learnt from Jesus when He spoke in Luke.12 about girding ourselves with particular attention to the loins or reproductive part of our minds to be saturated with truth and sober with no forms of exaggeration and lies permeating our souls but completely at rest in the grace the Holy Spirit will supply as Jesus steps in and manifests things on our behalf.

Truth must be meditated on, embraced and confessed till it takes over our hearts and minds and dominates our actions. I have found that the more I meditate and confess the word the more potent and effective it becomes in my being and then begins to radiate out to those within any radius of my life. I remember when on occasions I had been teaching the word to certain disciples who had come to be refreshed in their relationship with the Lord.

Then after a few weeks they had said to me that the words I was speaking seemed so loaded/potent they had to obey them because they brought such conviction on them, so obedience to them was what was required because they were being required to leave things they held dearly to go deeper with the Lord and walk in what the Holy Spirit had prepared for their lives which they were not willing to lay down to obtain before. Finally now they saw the necessity to do these things in order to line up with the Holy Spirit and go ahead and receive the promise.

Peter takes it further to the place of non-conformity to the previous lusts and desires of your former life needing to be surrendered to the Lord and conformity to truth be the order of the day in the beauty of Holiness without which no man will see God manifest things for them. These steps are absolutely necessary for us to take and do if we are going to share and partake of the divine nature of God.

The Apostle Paul uses the word gird your loins with the belt of truth when writing to the Ephesians church as he points out that holds the armor of God together in Ephesians.6 pointing out what is necessary to do, in order to walk in the place of triumph when evil seeks to assault you receiving the promise of God.

The stand you will need to take and remain steadfast in till you triumph. It will do you much good to go look in depth at these scriptures again and see exactly where you are in position to these truths and then do whatever you need to do to get back in readiness for the manifestation of the Lord Jesus in your life.

What I believe the Holy Spirit wants to convey this morning is the necessity for us to be proactive in our response to the things He has already revealed and spoken to you, and rather than wonder and question when they will happen. Be ready and alert to step in quickly as the Lord appears to bring them into natural manifestation in our lives.

These active steps of action mean we are in a state of readiness which will not compromise, succumb and give into any fancy prospects that seem to emerge that offer temporary reprieve. but lead down to years of oppression that satan offers to get us out of the will of the Lord which brings life and continued success, productivity and fruitfulness over sustained seasons of life.

My prayer for you today is that as you hear and receive these words of truth the grace that stimulates action will rest upon you and propel you to take the necessary proaction to do all these words say.

This will position you back to the place where the manifestation of the promise of Jesus becomes so real you can literally taste it and you then you go ahead and step into the place where you are eating the fruit the Holy Spirit wants you to feed on in real life terms bringing glory to the name of Jesus through signs, wonders and miracles wrought by the Holy Spirit in Jesus name. Amen.