The Holy Spirit reminded me this morning in my communion time with Him of His role and responsibility towards us as pointed out by Jesus in John.14:25&26 “These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

The importance of the role of the Holy Spirit to bring back to our remembrance the things Jesus spoke to us before. This is because when we hear truth it sparks light and life to us, but when attacks and tribulation arise because of that word we gradually lose sight of the words spoken and start drifting and it is the reminders that theHoly Spirit gives that ignites a new passion and desire to see those words fulfilled in our lives.

So today let these words of reminder stir you back to taking action so you can reap the benefits God intended for you when He first spoke those words. Jesus never wants you to come short of any word He has spoken over your life and will continually send you reminders through the Holy Spirit till you experience that truth manifested in your life experience. So let these words minister afresh to you the wonders of the Lord towards you and captivate your hearts to take the necessary action for your triumph in Jesus name. Amen.

The Holy Spirit this morning in my fellowship time with Him shared with me so many different truths and reminders of my position in Him and the responsibilities I have to steward what He reveals to me. He spoke to me about how I prioritize my time and what are the things I need to stop doing that are not profitable to my life and wellbeing and how to use my time more profitably.

Although we follow His daily leadings we are not to get comfortable in what is happening through our lives but press in for more of what God has in store for us and keep that momentum running rather than rest on our laurels because God has done some mighty thing on our behalf.

We have been given the responsibility to use the time the Lord gives us each day to establish and multiply out the Kingdom of Jesus through our lives and bring Him much fruit which remains.

The Holy Spirit reminded me of when Jesus spoke to His disciples in Luke.12:35-38 “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. Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them. 38 And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

You can clearly see from the way Jesus spoke here that though He had encouraged them about what God had provided for them and made available for them He expected them to respond faithfully and He would test their faithfulness in being alert and ready to do what the Master needed at any given point in time.

This is a priority with the Lord in our relationship with Him and it will be tested to see where we are at given points in time and you won’t know when so it is incumbent on you to be ready always.

Let us look at the commands Jesus gives here: let your waists be girded with truth which the Apostle Paul and Peter go on to emphasize in their letters to those who will follow the Lord. In Ephesians.6:14 in putting on the whole armor of God Paul starts by saying gird up your loins with truth; this term gird means to ready oneself for action, encircling yourself with truth, well that certainly requires doing something as in order to defeat your enemy who is constantly throwing lies and deception around you must of necessity be confessing truth and establishing it in your heart with as much or more intensity if you are to defeat it controlling your actions.

You cannot cast down what you tolerate or allow to flow and pass through your mind. You need to actively rebuke and reject its right to determine your mindset by disallowing it. Remember that the truth you know and apply alone will make you free and keep you free.

“Truth not applied is dormant and will not work for you.” Hence we are told to gird ourselves with it, in an active state of mind which Jesus, Paul and Peter each insisted we as disciples need to do.

Let us look at what Peter pointed out on what to do when he said gird ourselves in 1 Peter.:13 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;

Again we see it requires action on our part to take control of our mind and Peter here speaks about the reproductive part of your mind being so encircled with truth and sober, not in presumption, or arrogance, or foolish thinking but resting completely on the grace which the Holy Spirit will bring to you by revelation.

In other words your mouth must be actively declaring the truth and establishing it in your hearts so that you are constantly ready to take the action the Holy Spirit will require you to take when the hour of manifestation arrives.

In Peter’s life this occurs in Acts.10:9 Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour. Peter has to take the initiative to go pray and engage with God and then goes on to have the trance and the Holy Spirit breaks through with the truth to cause Peter to take action which he would never have done because of the mindset that he had as a jew which required that action.

He now had to gird his mind with the new truth which he heard Jesus speak about time and again but it had not quite registered with him but would come through that day as the Holy Spirit ministered it to him and said now go with those men without doubting.

Watch how that singular event t Peter engaged in and girded his mind with truth on became the catalyst that birthed these words in Acts.10:34-35 Then Peter opened his mouth and said: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. 35 But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him. which made salvation a reality for me and you today and every human being on earth who would choose to follow Jesus and work righteousness.

Be encouraged by how that singular event changed Peter eternally as He engaged with the Holy Spirit in because he chose to gird his mind with the truth the Holy Spirit gave him and got to see God in action in a new dimension in Acts.10:44-48 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word. 45 And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also. 46 For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God.

Then Peter answered, 47 “Can anyone forbid water, that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” 48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord.

Then they asked him to stay a few days. God knew what Cornelius had done for His name and had lived out and was going to reward him for that and no bias of Peter was going to stop that happening.

My prayer and heartfelt desire for you today is that you engage in girding the loins of your heart and minds completely on the truth the Holy Spirit reveals and allow Him to bring forth every thing He has assigned for you to do in the Spirit for the advancement of the Kingdom which will glorify His name. May you always find grace to be in the bullseye of God’s will and purpose for your lives and be girded to execute on His behalf in the prescribed time for His glory in Jesus name. Amen.

Take time today and meditate these words over and over again, look over the scriptures again and let them become a part of your life and you will see more expansion of the life of Jesus made available to you and much increase of productivity for the Kingdom in Jesus name. Amen.