Month: November 2023 (Page 3 of 3)

The Holy Spirit this beautiful morning in our communion time shared with me more about His faithfulness towards me overriding my fragility, rather than how my weakness causes me to stumble. He reminded me that He is here to cover our backs and keep us from falling into temptation. He empowers us to walk in the grace He supplies to triumph in all things.

Jesus came so we could partake of all things that pertain to our lives and Godliness by His Divine power. We need to focus more on His ability to do than our failures.

This is an inheritance the Father has for us not because of our works, but because of His love for us by which He has adopted us as His own very children through the sacrifice of Jesus for us. Look at John.1:12&13 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

You will notice as you look at this scripture that nothing you did gave you this privilege to become a child of God, but the operation of the Holy Spirit that births you once you receive the promise God made through Jesus to give you that right by receiving His word declared to you.

Now let us go further into the faithfulness of God towards us which the Holy Spirit brought back to my attention this morning in fellowship time. In 1 Thessalonians.5:23&24 we read these life giving words expressed through the mouth of the Apostle Paul that assures us of God’s faithfulness towards us in the now. Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.

When the Holy Spirit first introduced this revelation to me He was pointing out to me the word “Now” and wanted me to step into that place of receiving in the “Now” what God had promised me. So step in with me into this reality for you in the now that the Holy Spirit wants for you to do and experience.

Yesterday I shared how Jesus sought to bring Martha into the now situation of life and see an awesome miracle or resurrection from the grave. Now may the God of peace Himself: that is Jesus the Prince of Peace, the King of peace, Person whose peace calmed the winds and storms and waves to absolute calm that startled the Disciples.

This Jesus Himself in all the characteristics of His peace sanctify you completely.”Total immersion into His peace overwhelming you.” Not demonic oppression overcoming you. You need to experience that part of the Lord in your life.The Peace of the Holy Spirit overwhelming and overshadowing your life and you entering God’s rest.

This means firstly to separate you from anything contrary to peace. All of it cut off from your life and existence. Then He sets you apart completely to everything that is His peace. Just pause a moment to thank the Lord for this reality and let it saturate your whole being, what the Lord has done for you.

When I realized that the Holy Spirit separated me from everything in the now that robs me of peace I knew my life would change and I would go on to experience the same peace Jesus walked in if only I yielded to that grace.

Let us look further at what this peace will do in your spirit, soul and body. God saved my spirit instantly but my soul which is my mind, my will, my emotions and my intellect are what have difficulties agreeing with God and need to be renewed daily to line up with this reality. We need to renew our minds daily to keep up to date with who we are in God and remember his faithfulness.

However Paul steps into this now moment in the Holy Spirit and points out that the Lord will preserve our minds, my wills, my emotions and our intellects blameless at the coming of the Lord Jesus.

This is not at the second coming of Jesus in the last day which Martha spoke of in the future, but Him manifesting Himself for us now as He pointed out in John.14:22&23 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

You see my brethren and sistren the Lord wants you preserved blameless till He comes in all aspects and areas of your life saturated by His peace which passes all understanding and guards your hearts and minds in the knowledge of Him. He comes to you in the now just as He came to the house of Jairus and changes things for you in a second.

Just feast on the conclusion of the statement “He is faithful who calls you who also will do it.” You are reliant on His faithfulness to do what He promised, not your wavering mind , emotions, will or intellect that constantly fail you. God will not break His covenant nor alter the word from His mouth but will fulfill His word to the letter as He pointed out to Abraham in Genesis.17:1&2 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless. 2 And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

Abraham went on to birth Issac even though He was 99 years old and Sarah was 90 years having been barren all her life. God preserved him blameless till he manifested the promise. That is the God you serve, He is faithful.

This is the reality the Holy Spirit wants you to see here that the Lord’s faithfulness will bring you to the point where you will birth the inheritance He has ordained for you by keeping you blameless before Him until He manifests what He promised you.

My prayer for you this morning is that as you hear these words your spirit will be reawakened to truth and you will embrace the grace being supplied to you by the Holy Spirit to come back into alignment with the will and purpose of God for your life and get back to the path God ordained for you, as you cease from roaming paths of death and failure and come into walking in the inheritance the Lord has reserved for you in this world.

May you walk in this renewed posture of the Holy Spirit and come into the full manifestation of God’s promise to you in the now of life in Jesus name. Amen.

This morning in my communion time with the Holy Spirit He pointed out to me that we need to stop walking at cross purposes with Him in matters of the Spirit. We always have a tendency to move situations to the future rather than deal with them in the now because that does not demand anything from us.

The Holy Spirit however wants us to place a demand on the God of the now rather later which never seems to come once we choose to wait for later. In the scripture the Holy Spirit brought to my heart this morning to meditate on and expect to walk in today I will share some of the things the Holy Spirit revealed to me that should free you from putting off for later what God wants to do in the now of your life.

In John.11:21-26 we read this discourse between Jesus and Martha and take note of how Martha answers Jesus 1 Now Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.”2Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”24 Martha said to Him, “I know that he will 3 rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

Martha firstly uses the excuse of Jesus not arriving on time to have stopped the unfortunate incident of Lazarus dying and blames Jesus for not caring. She offers Jesus no sacrifice of praise with her lips but complains with her lips and does not contemplate what miracle could happen if she just submitted to Jesus’s plan for today.

She knows better than that which she then blots out her mouth But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.”She has the church trained voice to speak words of faith as a cover up for doubt. If you believe that fact Martha then why do you stagger at what Jesus wants to do to prove that fact in your life?

This needs to be a question we all need to ask ourselves when we are faced with a challenge that requires an act of God on our behalf that demands action in the now. This is because what we choose to believe and do at that moment will determine what happens. I am so happy that Jesus only takes the words of faith we speak and ignores our failures.

He is the High Priest over the confession of our mouths when they line up with His will.Jesus takes the words and goes on to tell her His plan for today which is that your brother will rise again.

Martha again brings the future up by telling Jesus she knows her bible and what future events hold by saying I already know that in the last day we will all be raised up. Well Jesus was not dealing with the last day but with today so why was Martha not cooperating?

She had no faith for today and was about to fall prey to the word that “today when you hear His voice do not harden your heart”as in the day of rebellion when your fathers tempted God. If you harden your heart God can do nothing for you so it is important that we open our hearts to what the Holy Spirit is saying for today and change to line up with Him so we can experience what God wants to do.

Jesus wants to nail her to today and change her expectancy for the now and goes on to tell her these words: “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

You would have thought that after hearing these words Martha would just believe. Why did she not believe Jesus was the resurrection and the life? She was refusing to engage with the now moment of faith though Jesus kept pushing her to take a stand. I am resurrection now so expect to see resurrection manifested today.

Just look at her answer in verse 27 She said to Him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.” Jesus was not talking about coming into the world because He was already in the world and wanted to prove that reality to her that day but she kept using her knowledge of future scripture to rob her of the present moment of faith to receive in the now.

I want you to think on this matter with Martha and look at your life and ask yourself how many times have you done exactly what she did here and lost out on what God had planned for the day by excusing with scripture with future thoughts what you could have experienced in the now.

Martha fortunately goes on to see the miracle happen because her sister Mary has a different approach to Jesus and He can work with that and accomplish His will though she still butts in again when Jesus orders for the tomb to be opened and she talks about the smell of a dead body and Jesus has to rebuke her.

Well today the Holy Spirit wants you to look at what happened here with Martha and take care of those patterns in your life that rob you of God doing for you in the now. You don’t have a sister who can cover for your faults and make up the hedge for you so you have missed the opportunities and have gone on to blame the Lord for failing you. When in fact it was you who stumbled during the process just as Martha did and could not submit to the Holy Spirit’s leading.

Today is a new day and the Lord through these words wants to give you a fresh start again as you listen to them repent, turn and take fresh action of believing God to work in the now of life as grace is ministered to you to go beyond your doubts and fears to believing and receiving in the now.

May today mark the beginning of a new walk with the Holy Spirit of experiencing God working in the now of your life. Throw out all the excuses you have made to cover your doubts and embrace the faith for now. Your life will dramatically change as you surrender to thus saith the Holy Spirit in Jesus name. Amen.