This morning in my communion time with the Holy Spirit He pointed out to me the importance of understanding the correction He gives us. We are to correctly discern His intent and purpose in correction and evaluate accurately what the Holy Spirit intends for our lives which is to build us up and walk us away from the things that hurt and harm our progress in the pursuit of the Kingdom mandate the Lord has for our lives.

So today take hold of these truths and re-calibrate your status with the Lord and ensure you are only allowing His correction and not condemnation be the guide in your life and pursuit of His plan for your life in Jesus name. Amen.

I have found that the Holy Spirit loves to correct us through edifying words rather than words of condemnation. I noticed that Jesus always used parables to correct people’s mindsets and thought patterns so that they, through those words could identify their errors and make the necessary adjustments and find the way of repentance to come back to the relationship with the Lord.

The Lord is always more interested in us moving forward than dwelling on the past particularly when the lessons have been learnt through the words of correction we submit to.

The Holy Spirit always wants us to know our heart and the things that make us do what we do. In other words He wants us to know what motivates us and why we yield to what we yield to because when we own our mistakes and make the right corrections on them, we are truly free because we know the truth and since it is the truth we know that makes us free we will be free indeed. Owning the truth.

So I will share today a situation with you in the bible where a refusal to deal with the truth cost a God servant to lose out on God’s best because he refused to own the truth and make the necessary adjustments that could have changed the course of his and his family’s life.

The Holy Spirit wants me to bring to the table the life of King Jehoshaphat. In 2 chronicles.19:1-3 we read of a warning given to him by a seer after he goes on a battle with king Ahab who the Lord describes as a wicked hater of God whom you helped and for that reason the wrath of God is against you.

In other words God points out that you have done wrong and wrath is set against you because you came into agreement with a wicked evil doer, hater of God so repent and turn which he doesn’t do because kind words of the other good he has done cause him to not feel the need to make the adjustment because his good was acknowledged.

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Never fall into that trap regardless of what good you have done. God tests the intent and purpose of your hearts and that will determine your end results on that. He goes on to ignore the warning and that wrath begins stirring up in his house.

In 2 chronicles.20:35-37 Again He allies with those God describes as haters of God Ahab’s son now and God destroys his works using a prophet to speak to him about this trend of working and allying with enemies from God’s perspective. In 2 chronicles.21:4 we see that wrath of God manifested when his son as King, having replaced him, kill his brothers after how honorably Jehoshaphat had shared their inheritance before he died in 2 chronicles.21:3. It will benefit you to read all the accounts in these chapters of 2 Chronicles.20&21 and 1 Kings.15-22 to have the fuller picture.

What the Holy Spirit wants made clear is that our thoughts on things and relationships is not what determines outcomes but what God says and our willingness to change with His perspective that will determine our end result. How does a man who walked that level of righteousness have a family where brother kills brother and Ahab who did such wickedness have a family where brothers help one another and live on until the Lord steps in to destroy them?

Because of intermingling with wickedness and refusing to repent and change when warned, the conclusion of a righteous man is death and destruction for him and his family when the reward for righteousness is deliverance from death. This is exactly what balaam suggested to balak would bring down Israel if they intermingle they can and will be reduced to nothing.

May you selah on this reality and make the decision to follow and obey the dictates of the Holy Spirit regardless of what you see or perceive from natural events and heed and make and take decisive action to repent and turn from error when the Lord speaks this to you and quit the excuses that they are brethren and I have to support them.

I pray that today that from seeing the reality of truth from these words you will find the grace from the Holy Spirit necessary to protect you and guide you to walk circumspectly so that you do not lose out on your reward because of ignorance in your helping of those you are not to help, because they petition you and seem to need you and, you side evil and compromise your own heritage and the ensuing rewards that are tied with it and end up on the losing side. May that never be your portion in Jesus’ name. Amen.

I conclude with this word from 2 John.8 Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward. Let that be your portion for serving the Living God in Jesus’ name. Amen.