Month: January 2024 (Page 1 of 3)

The Holy Spirit spoke to me this morning about having the right priorities in daily living and what is our most important priority. We assume providing for our family would come to mind, but the Holy Spirit said that is not the first priority though it is important and our responsibility. He said the Father said seek first the Kingdom of God and its righteousness and then all these other things will be added unto you.

All the heathen nations seek for all those things and your Father knows you have need of them, however don’t seek them. He pointed out in Proverbs:20.15 that You may have an abundance of wealth, piles of gold and jewels, but there is something of far greater worth:speaking revelation-words of knowledge. The Lord desires that we seek Him with all our hearts and give Him first place.

Now the Lord was pointing out that regardless of the wealth you pursue and gain, the gold and jewels, they are nothing in comparison with being able to speak a word of revelation from God. That is priceless because One word of revelation from God can save, rescue and deliver you from anything life throws at you, but money and riches can’t deliver you from death or even sickness.

The Holy Spirit said we live in a society where money seems to be the priority because with it we can do many things. However in the kingdom of Jesus revelation knowledge is the priority and can and will determine what tomorrow holds for you so that is why it is our priority. To get revelation we must give time to seeking God to hear it.

He said if we don’t change our minds on this we will always make money and opportunities to make it, drag us away from the will and purpose of God for our lives and end up losing out on God’s best plan for us.

As I have said before, the Holy Spirit never forces truth down on us but reasons with us and expects us to make the right choices, because that is what free will is about, I weighed the situation and made my choice no one forced me. Satan is the one who pressures you and forces you to act not God.As Jesus said in John:5.30 As I hear I judge and My judgment is right because I do my Father’s will and not mine.

In fact Jesus said I have no desire to do my will. That was a choice Jesus made, He could have chosen His way but chose to follow the Father and that’s what we have to do to walk in speaking revelation words of life from God. One word from the Lord can birth a nation in a day.

That truth stumped the jewish leaders when Jesus said I will tear down this temple and build its replacement in three days. They complained that it took 46 years to build this one and you say you can build it in three days. Not possible! However with God all things are possible. Yes because all it took God to build the earth was six days and He spoke everything into being and they continue to function to this day without needing to be fuelled or repaired or batteried up to keep working.

They are all self sustained. We need to trust God more and rely on Him rather than our own understanding so that our path can be smooth and free from hindrance and trouble.

If you think of the time, energy and manpower it takes to build a bridge through water and compare that One revelation word to Moses to stretch out his hand and a bridge appeared and they crossed over the Red sea, with the water being the wall for and to them three million people.

No wonder God told His people to have it recorded as a memorial to His power and that story forty years on Rahab said she remembered and chose to follow God and put down all her relationships in Jericho including the king’s to follow after a revelation word from God that His people will take that land and that ended her in the hall of faith as a doer of God who went from harlot to being in the genealogy of Jesus .

May you today be so inspired that you have a testimony of that magnitude and more as you hear these words and let grace arise in you to take these revelation words and find the life God ordained for you and walk in His Almighty Power and Omnipotence of signs, wonders and miracles in the name of Jesus. Amen. Have a resounding day of triumph in Jesus Name. Amen.

The Holy Spirit spoke to me about the reasons why we should always do the things to ensure He is not against us. It does not matter who is against us if He the Lord is for us but we never want to find ourselves in a position where the Lord is against us.That is a dangerous place to be.

Pride is the fastest way to make God fight against us because the Lord has to resist pride and bring it down. Leaning on our own understanding and acting out our way forces the Lord to fight against us because we are in opposition to His will. So avoid any such behavior because it brings death. We cannot afford that even for a second.

You say how can that be possible? The Holy Spirit says so and He is the Spirit of Truth and in the book of Revelation:2 we see Jesus reveal that He is against His people on various occasions and makes it clear to them that reality.

Revelation:2.4 But I have this against you: you have lost the love you had at first. What you have lost you need to find back, the Holy Spirit says. Revelation:2.14 Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: you have some people who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to set a trap for the people of Israel, so that they would eat food that had been sacrificed to idols and commit sexual sin.

Well you need to stop eating the food sacrificed to idols that family or friends offer you and stop committing sexual sin being offered you.Revelation:2.20 But I have this against you: you continue to tolerate that Izevel woman, the one who claims to be a prophet, but is teaching and deceiving my servants to commit sexual sin and eat food that has been sacrificed to idols.

You need to stop tolerating sin and the teaching of that person who claims a prophetic gift but permits servants of God to commit sexualsin and eat food sacrificed to idols. Now Jesus was revealing to John what things He Jesus was against that His people were doing in order to cause them to repent of, correct them and get back in line with Him so the Lord could fight for them and not against them.

Now that got my attention because there are times I have felt the Lord fighting against me when I was trying to reach people who obviously He was not.

I tolerated what I should not have in the name of an excuse of carnal Christians and a work in progress when Jesus was saying time is up for the person and judgment will be released on them just as Jesus did to the Church in Thyatira in Revelation:2.20-23. I encourage you to look at it and meditate on it as you will see an area of Jesus that we don’t want to look at because we don’t believe love can do that but the reality is love does correct and make wrongs right through justice and remember that the foundations of God’s throne are Righteousness and Justice.

I learnt this from the Holy Spirit that righteousness cannot be established unless there is a system of Justice to curb offenders and breakers of the law. As the Holy Spirit continued He said I should always evaluate my daily walk with the Lord to ensure that I am not working against the Lord in what I am doing so the Lord does not fight against me.

I need Him most definitely fighting for me and defeating my enemies that rise against me, not Him resisting me.

Remember Joshua when fighting against Ai and they were defeated , God said I am not for you so sort out with me your sin when Joshua had cried out to the Lord for help.

Now most occasions this happens is when I am extending stupid love, blind loyalty as the Holy Spirit calls it and ignoring the real facts and seeking a way to absolve the individual of responsibility for their actions, big mistake because as Jesus said it will cost me His protection which I cannot afford to lose.

We need to agree with the Lord as we see in these passages in Revelation and change our perspective and align with His truth to continue enjoying the benefits of His shielding of our lives.

The Holy Spirit will always point out these truths to us but we have to choose to agree with Him for them to benefit us. We cannot refuse to climb the ladder provided for us to climb out with and expect we will be safe in the dungeon with evil surrounding us and say no weapon formed against me shall prosper. The weapon is already prospering. I need to climb out to be free not remain there a minute longer suffering unjustly because I won’t take the way out the Lord provides.

Well today as I have shared these truths from the Holy Spirit with you lay hold of the grace they provide you and come out from every agreement you have made that has caused Jesus to be against you and find the way out this word is opening to you to regain Jesus’ support and protection back in your life and His power working for you to defeat your enemies once again and give you a testimony of triumph over the works of the enemy that have sought to swallow you up and ruin your life.

May the good hand of the Lord be restored to you today and may you see triumph beyond measure overshadowing your life again in Jesus Name as you align back to completely trusting the Lord and resting in His wisdom and path for your life in Jesus name. Amen.

The Holy Spirit desires above everything else that we walk in the truth and are free from deception and lies because that means we are walking with satan and we know that Jesus was manifested in the flesh to destroy the works of the devil which is deception. Today I will continue the theme of the eyes of the heart and the ears of the heart being full of the Spirit and governed by the Holy Spirit dictates rather than our opinions.

In Matthew:13.16-17 Jesus speaks these words But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; 17 for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.

Now these words are powerful because they point to the fact that even Moses, Elijah, Daniel, Isaiah, Ezekiel who spoke with God knowing God’s ways desired to have their hearts hear and see things of God but could not as Jesus had not come to open the way of God in our hearts. Jesus here is speaking to His disciples, not everyone who was present,only those who had left everything to follow Him and He points out to them that they have been blessed to have eyes to see and ears to hear.

Well we certainly know that Jesus was not talking about physical eyes and ears because all listening to Him at that time had those. He was speaking about men’s hearts being able to hear and see God and speak for God just like He did. He preceded the parable of the various soils of the heart with this so we would know the true context of His discourse.

You will also note that He had said to them in this discourse that let him that has ears to hear let him hear. In the book of Revelation:2 & 3 in each dialogue Jesus has with the individual churches He says let he that has ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying. Which clearly depicts that there are ears of the heart that have to be available for us to hear God and understand Him. Paul the Apostle spends time praying in ephesians that the eyes of our hearts being enlightened and the ears of our hearts being able to comprehend the mystery of God.

I know that I from my part prayed for years that the eyes and ears of my heart would be enlightened to know what God is saying and how to respond to receive what He promised and after years that began to happen in my life and has continued.

I recall the Lord taking me through a period where I spent hours on the introduction of the epistles and He taught me who qualified for what was written and who could not have it because their hearts did not qualify.

The book of Ephesians and Colossians are addressed to faithful ones to the Lord and that is why ignorant people use them out of presumption and find their lives ruined because they don’t have the eyes and ears of heart to know what the Lord is revealing and satan can take them hostage because he knows they are not in truth,but deception.

There is a whole difference between a single word of wisdom and the Spirit of wisdom. God can give you a word of wisdom about a particular situation you are facing but that does not make you the Spirit of wisdom who has understanding in every situation.

It is as we grow in the eyes of our hearts and ears of our heart by surrendering to the Holy Spirit that we are then able to comprehend what God is saying and have His picture of situations and recognise His heart beat. Jesus at a point in samaria rebukes James and John saying you do not know what manner of spirit you are off.

Their hearts had not come through yet and they still needed to continue in the process of following the Lord with their hearts. In the book of Proverbs it talks about wisdom as seeking for it as you would for gold.

Well ask yourself which the Holy Spirit always wants us to do, how many hours of the day do you spend at work to get a salary and what portion of your life do you surrender to that company for its benefit outside your spouse and children each day.

It is the same with God we must give Him time for the eyes and ears of our hearts to be opened because in real terms our hearts are desperately wicked and deceitful above all things and who can know it. Only the Lord can search it out and show our true intent and purpose and give us according to what we deserve.

Peter speaks of the heart in 2 Peter:1.19-21 And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts; 20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, 21 for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

The dark place is our hearts which Paul also mentions that the god of this world has blinded the hearts of men which need to be enlightened by truth till the Morning star arises.

That is when Christ arises in our hearts it is no longer us but Him in us. We are also told that Jesus who is the word Himself increased in wisdom and stature so it is clear that as men we need to continue to grow and develop in the eyes and ears of our hearts that have been polluted by darkness and find grace to come out and be free to serve the purposes of God in our lives.

As you can see clearly this area of the heart is a lifetime issue which we will need to continue with all the days of our lives.

When I read that Pauls greatest desire was to know Christ and the power of His resurrection I thought what this man has raised the dead seen Asia saved and experienced special miracles and yet he says he wants to know the Lord and that is his greatest desire, that there should certainly keep us humble and make us seek to know more of the Almightiness of God and go wholeheartedly after it with everything in us.

My prayer for you today as you receive these words and the grace of God in them to empower you to action and pursuit of His will in the eyes and ears of your heart is that you make them the pursuit of your life and let them be the centre of your existence and just watch how life will change for you and things that were a bother,frustration and worry will melt like wax at the Presence of the Lord in your life.

Have a God filled day of recovery and restoration of your heart and true enlightenment that defeats your enemies in Jesus Name. Amen.

This morning the Holy Spirit wants to minister a truth to you that will open your spiritual eyes to see in the Spirit and know the timings of the Lord for you and supply you grace to walk in step and line with Him till the process is completed.

You are to run the full cycle of the will of God in every situation that is what the Holy Spirit has provided and made available for us. All we need to do is surrender and yield to it and allow our lives to carry out the God plan by the grace which He lavishly supplies to us.

He wants you to be able to complete assignments and projects He gave you on time and in His prescribed way. He spoke to me that too many of His servants are starting well but are not able to complete the tasks He sets for them because distractions and other things come in and choke out the most important thing they should be consumed with.

He reminded me of Nehemiah when he was being harassed to leave the task of building the walls in Jerusalem and the various tactics employed to get him to stop the work and his response to them which should be ours which God commended.

I cannot come down to you as I have a good work to complete which I cannot leave regardless of how important you say it is for us to meet up. We need to be more focused and refuse all distractions from the will of God, even if it is to meet a President or Prime Minister when we should be seeking and doing the things God requires us to do.

He pointed out that Jesus was completely focused on finishing the work God assigned Him to do that said of Him “zeal for the Father’s House consumed Him.” We need to be entirely consumed with passion and zeal to do what God requires and not give room to distractions.

For our spiritual eyes to be enlightened we need to have a program or discipline set that gives daily time to the Holy Spirit to direct us and change our course of action to save and lead us to the things we need to do rather than things we want to do. Our good intentions do not amount to obedience and God prefers obedience to sacrifice. Just obey Me the Lord says, I don’t need human sacrifice to get my will done but only obedience to my will.

The Holy Spirit reminded me of Mary at the wedding in Canaan when she said to the servants whatever He says to you to do just do it,don’t analyze it or think is it right or wrong ,or what will people think or say about it just do it. The way to expel darkness is with light and the entrance of His word gives light.

We need to as the Holy Spirit pointed out go after Revelation Knowledge because it is the bedrock on which Jesus can achieve His purpose in your life. As Jesus spoke to Peter to come on the water and Peter did walk on the water, but allowed the storm to distract him from Jesus and begin to sink even though Jesus was there in front of Him.

He did not complete the task himself because Jesus had to pick him up in the middle and Jesus asked him why did you doubt, so Peter could do something to eliminate that doubt but did not and missed that opportunity. Our focus must be entirely on the Lord and absent from the distractions that solicit our attention and resolve. It is more important to obey the Lord than worry about what people will say.

Obedience to God is more productive than opinions of men and whichever you choose will determine your outcome be it God’s which is life or man’s which brings death. Jesus says choose life. Today you have a choice to make, having heard these words that possess the grace to propel you into the will of God, but you have to choose them and embrace them and allow them to work in your heart for you to have the God outcome.

I beseech you to receive them and embrace a new beginning and don’t talk yourself out of them and lose a glorious opportunity. May you today lay hold on eternal life and move forward in the plan of God for you to be the light God intended you to be by signs, wonders and miracles through the working of the Holy Spirit in Jesus Name. Amen.

The Holy Spirit in my communion time with Him today reminded me of us recognizing cycles or patterns that seem to happen consistently when we reach a particular point in our journey in faith as we trust the Lord to bring us through and how to develop a resistance to the same old responses which cost us the position of triumph. We need to mature and rise above these tactics and give the enemy a blow which cannot be stopped as we march in triumphantly regardless of the stiff opposition.

So I am sharing these words from the Holy Spirit to grace you at this time to go beyond the plain and into the promised inheritance the Lord has available to you today to come out triumphant with shouts of joy and the promise in your hands. Stop letting this trap rob you of any blessing ever again in Jesus name. Amen.

The Holy Spirit my best friend, Companion and Helper again shared with me some very good news. He said fear and intimidation is the trap that holds me back so why do we allow it to make us take action. I repented instantly and made adjustments because I know when the Holy Spirit speaks and reveals my heart in a situation it is true no matter what I think at the time. If something is a trap why do we constantly fall for it and allow it to determine the course we take.

Fear always seems real from the natural perspective because you can see it and feel it breathing down your life looking for cooperation and support, however the Holy Spirit said if you rebuke it it will evaporate quickly because its purpose is to scare and intimidate you to make an impulsive decision to react prematurely on the basis that things will not change.

The Holy Spirit reminded me of the scripture in 2 Corinthians:4.18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. Why He said do we keep looking at what is seen having seen truth in this scripture that we are not to base anything in life on what our eyes have seen, but on what God has revealed because that is the eternal view point and eternal truth will always change natural facts.

The fact is each day there is a new situation that emerges to arouse fear so we need to be vigilant. He pointed out that we should always base things from the eternal perspective not the natural because natural things change quickly because they are temporary and subject to change.

In other words don’t build on what is unreliable and is subject to failure but on what God says because that is eternal. Regardless of how real fear and intimidation appear, don’t respond to them as He pointed out That’s where Paul arrived in his walk with the Lord when he said ‘none of these things move me’.I refuse to respond to natural events no matter how they appear and the threat they pose to be to my existence. I will not decide on their basis.

That is how Paul could be relaxed in a storm where 14 days of seeing no sun or moon but only darkness and men saying all hope of being saved is lost stop trying it’s over, Paul arose and said everything will be alright because an angel of the Lord came to me and spoke to me that all of us will be saved and we will end up on an Island and only the ship will be lost but no life and in that moment said we need to eat because that food will be needed for us to swim to shore and Paul went on to break bread and eat. They all followed suit and it happened as Paul had said.

The Holy Spirit said the fear was real and that storm was true and they truly experienced the ship being tossed up and down on those seas with no light for 14 days. The Holy Spirit said when we read these truths we sometimes don’t look at the severity of that situation and what it really was like for those in that ship and the level of fear that was aroused in them that moved them to declare we will not come out of this alive as there seems to be no end to this relentless pounding of wind and waves battering us and driving this ship.

The truth is that God had already provided a way out and Paul was already talking with the Lord in that situation and receiving an answer in all that turmoil and trauma that came to pass and changed that pounding and brought back calm and stillness.

Well if that was the case then so today the Holy Spirit who was with Paul then and gave him the way out is here with you today and will help you navigate out of any situation of fear and intimidation that threatens to take you out and bring you safely to your destined end in God of triumph and victory loaded with the miraculous power of the Holy Spirit.

So today change your minds and believe and receive God’s word and throw out fear and intimidation and look to the eternal word of the Lord to be your sight and vision going forward for it alone is eternal and will serve to bring you to a place of glory and a story of triumph in Jesus’ name that will bring expansion to Jesus’ Kingdom here on earth to glorify His name. Amen.

This morning in my communion time with the Holy Spirit He reminded me to let you know that you need to stop reacting and making costly decisions on your enemies actions. He wants you to only respond on what thus saith the Holy Spirit because that alone will stand and you can rest your life on the words of the Lord being established.

Ensure that you keep your eyes on Jesus your Shepherd and where He is leading and follow and all will be well. Let these words minister grace to you today as you move forward in Jesus name. Amen.

The Holy Spirit says stop making rash hasty decisions because it proves to your enemies that you are really not trusting the Lord. You don’t have to answer all the questions people ask you and you don’t need to cover up why you are not seeming to have quick answers by doing something rash and hasty just to prove that God is directing you.

The Holy Spirit wants you to remember that when in the wilderness Moses had the people camp in front of the Red Sea which looked rather silly and stupid because they were in a vulnerable place with no way forward seemingly and because God never wants us to retreat or go back it was contrary to wise leading. However Moses just obeyed the Lord and set up camp there as He requested.

He did not need to explain the reason for this ridiculous action and did not need to come up with a rash, hasty decision to cover up for this seeming foolishness in the eyes of the people who were now questioning whether he was hearing from God or had gone wacky.

Well God had a reason for them to be in front of that sea because they were going to go forward and God was intending to do something that had never been done before and that was going to be there new story that would establish their name in history and give them a testimony that up until today has not been matched.

So the Holy Spirit says stop allowing the pressure that things look awkward cause you to take rash decisions and hasty movements that position you outside the will of God because of what people will think or say about you or God.

Stop trying to defend God by doing what you think looks smart and sensible, God has a way beyond you and obedience to wait for Him to speak is what is required of you not premature hasty rash actions which rob you of His Divine intervention which will give you a new glorious testimony.

The Holy Spirit pointed out that which phenomenal miracle in the bible ever happened in perfect conditions from our perspective. None of course as God always shows up to change a narrative and show His own perspective by a miraculous sign.

The Holy Spirit said to me did Peter walk on water in perfect conditions or was there a storm that was blowing, yes I said the storm was raging and yes Peter had not planned that event and looked at it over and over again to make sure he would do the right thing, no it happened at the spur of the moment and Peter acted on an instant instruction and has a testimony no other human has because he responded to Jesus by coming to Him on the water regardless of the conditions present at the time.

Yes it looked rash and hasty to come out of the boat and walk on water but God gave the go ahead, and Peter did not flinch at the order to come considering whether it was possible or would the water hold me up or this has never happened before and all the human reasons that would prevent him from obeying God.

What the Holy Spirit pointed out to me was that all the other 11 disciples could have experienced the identical miracle but they all stayed in the comfort zone of the boat as there safety and not act on the instruction of the Lord to come out into a new realm of glory which He authored and would certainly complete as He did with Peter.

Take the step the Lord says and look silly to man but have the testimony God intends rather than take rash hasty natural actions to convince man you are smart and end up in a ditch somewhere having missed out on God’s best again.

As you hear these words let grace embrace you and propel you to restrain you from taking rash hasty decisions for the eyes of men and empower you to wait even in the most ridiculous position for the Lord and obey His instruction in that situation and have the most glorious testimony that you have ever experienced become a reality in your life today.

Have a new beginning in the Awesomeness of God’s power and might and go forth singing the horse and the rider thrown into the sea and me on the other side in victory with a new story of triumph in Jesus Name. Amen.

In my communion time with the Holy Spirit this morning He reminded me to stir up your hearts again to action in how you choose to think about yourself after much assault and enemy tactics and accusation which is requiring you to lay down and give up the fight saying this year is no different and you can expect the usual so just cave in to the flesh offers of a quick way out.

Well that is a lie from the pit of hell and the Lord wants you to adjust your shoulders back up and tell those lying thoughts where to go and lay claim to the inheritance God has determined for you to experience this year starting now in Jesus name. So get out your God centred thoughts and let these words of grace propel you into action again and lay hold of the promise for real this year so that the name of Jesus will be magnified in your life this season in Jesus name. Amen.

The Holy Spirit asks you today what are the thoughts you have concerning yourself that motivate you to action? Put them aside and take the Lord’s thoughts for you because the Lord knows the thoughts He thinks towards you’ thoughts of good, peace not of evil, designed to give you a future, a hope and an expected end of glory.

Now when the Lord says He knows His thoughts He means that He has considered everything in both the spiritual world and the physical world and created a way that will bring you out victorious and triumphant bearing much fruit and for that reason you can count on it to work out regardless of any opposition and assault on it.

However the Holy Spirit wants you to know that your thoughts are based on the facts presently before you and the favorable options that look or seem right that will bring you solutions in the now. These thoughts are all superficial and subject to change. They have not considered the spiritual ramifications of such decisions and where those will lead to. Your thoughts have only considered the natural benefits that will be gained from the present offers before you and they appear to be favorable and the best option presently, however the end of them will be disastrous.

He reminded me of the situation of Israel in Babylon when at the time they should be leaving there 70 years to go back and build Israel they are searching vigorously for material to build houses in Persia and are only meeting with blocks and obstacles and wasting money and energy that are going down the drain and no favor or help and the Lord confronts them to look at the bad situation and consider which way forward for them there thoughts or God’s.

Through the prophesying of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi they choose to change thoughts and perspective and go with God’s thoughts and instantly with that change of thoughts there results change and God even tells them to mark the date of the difference in results that happen to prove that change has happened. No more waste of money, time or physical energy.

Well today the Holy Spirit wants you to put aside your grand plan and come back to building His plan for your life and watch how things shift and begin to take shape and doors of opportunity open up because you choose the path of God’s thoughts for you versus yours and a process of arriving at a safe destination in the fullness of the Lord’s provision and supply saturated with peace and joy free from strife, shame and disgrace with plenty become your way of life and your expected end of glory and goodness in the Lord.

Remember that it is only a little adjustment of thought from yours to God’s that opens you up to a world of variety and abundance of the realm of the Holy Spirit that cannot be stopped or hampered or even be detected by your enemy that will propel you forward in triumph regardless of the odds against you in Jesus name.

I beseech you to lay aside your thoughts and plans and trust the Lord’s as you receive these words and you will see the all round difference in your life and circumstances in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Go ahead and have a God filled and centred day with all the rich benefits in your life in Jesus Name. Amen

In my communion time this morning the Holy Spirit reminded me of this reality we have in Him when we feel weak and weary and just out of sorts because of continuous attacks from satan and we seem unable to have rest to move forward. Let these words minister greater grace to you today to be propelled into action to move forward in the Lord to see your inheritance manifested this year in Jesus name. Amen.

The Holy Spirit wants me to share a truth with you today that He pointed out to me that keeps you going even after you have been weak and unable to lay hold of a present opportunity and had to pull out. In spending time fellowshipping with the Holy Spirit you will find nuggets of truth that can bring you out of the most difficult places and still find a way out that is triumphant in impact and removes shame and disgrace from your life.

The Holy Spirit reminded me of 2 Corinthians.2:14 which reads But thanks be to God, who in the Messiah constantly leads us in a triumphal procession and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of what it means to know him!

This scripture comes on the back of a failure on the part of the Apostle Paul to capitalize on an opportunity of an open door which the Lord had given him in Troas. Paul was always looking for doors into various regions to share the gospel for which Christ had chosen him and it was quite strange to note that on this occasion that after the door had been opened and there were no adversaries that he seemed unable to take it and moved away to go find Titus.

So I asked the Holy Spirit why did Paul not take this opportunity because many times before he was willing to fight through difficult circumstances and treacherous terrain just to get in and then be driven out. So why on this occasion now that everything was ready and laid out by the Lord was he unable to carry through this opportunity.

I wondered why Paul did not ask the Holy Spirit and get confirmation on what the situation with Titus was and be comforted in the word from the Holy Spirit. He could then have at least spoken to and brought encouragement and edification to people that were ready for his message and given them an opportunity to experience the multifaceted grace in His life which would have had free course because of their willingness .

Remember Paul was the one who had pointed out that we should walk by faith and not sight so what was up here. I thought finally an open door without all the hassles that he normally faced and that should have been a dream come true. Free course to share what he had when everything was in place.

I then said to the Lord how can he then go on and say thanks be to God who always leads us out in triumph and through us spreads the fragrance of God when it appears there has just been a failure on his part. The Holy Spirit then interjected and said. Was Paul led out in triumph on this occasion and I said yes.

“So the Holy Spirit never fails to lead us out in triumph in any given situation, but our action in that situation is what will decide the outcome of whether the fragrance of the knowledge of Him is spread around.”

Paul never spread that fragrance on that occasion so no one could benefit from it.

“The Holy Spirit needed the body of Paul to be present and do the speaking for there to be a manifestation of God.”

I learnt a very important lesson that day of how important it is for me to always be ready to share what God has given me and not allow any family situation or worry or concern stop me when God opens the opportunity for me to spread His fragrance that my weakness hinders and stops the process.

It emphasized the reality of Jesus’s Pep talk to the disciples in Luke.12:35-37 “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. “

“I never want to be the reason for the Lord’s will not to be fulfilled because I did something wrong or were not prepared ahead of time.”

I asked the Holy Spirit to help me always be ready to do what He wanted and not miss an opportunity He created because it takes time to recover a missed chance and be back in that place.

Now the question for us is the Lord will always lead us out in triumph in Christ but will we make ourselves available for the fragrance of the knowledge of God to be manifested everywhere through our lives. We need to be willing to make that commitment to the Lord that our bodies will do what is necessary not to miss any opportunity the Lord creates for us to manifest His glory.

“Jesus makes that choice in John.4 in Samaria for the woman at the well when he remains waiting for her though He is thirsty and tired so that the fragrance of the knowledge of His kingdom could be released in Samaria and lives of a whole community could be changed eternally.”

I pray that as you receive these words the grace of the Holy Spirit will be released to you to embrace this truth and empower and enable you to be ready to take every opportunity that the Holy Spirit provides you to spread the Fragrance of the knowledge of God in every place you go so that the Kingdom of Jesus is expanded for His glory. Amen.

The Holy Spirit in my communion time with Him this morning reminded me that He is seeking to help us tighten up our walk and the small things that cause us to drift. This is to enable us to override all the usual events satan has used previously to rob us of triumph by offense at the last moment that gives him the right to take our prize, because we have left our position and run off.

However the Holy Spirit wants you armed with grace to be steadfast and immovable and refusing to give ground through these words so you go on to walk in and partake of your divine inheritance and glorify the name of the Lord in your life. Allow the Spirit of wisdom to navigate and direct you and be found in Him not your natural and fleshly wisdom so triumph will be your outcome in Jesus name.

The Holy Spirit spoke to me today about understanding wisdom and its importance in our daily lives. The Spirit of Wisdom is a Person and the word of Wisdom is a single word from the Person of Wisdom and that is why Paul spent time praying that we be filled with the Spirit of Wisdom and the knowledge of God’s will in everything.

Single words of Wisdom are not enough for our lives, we need the immersion in the Spirit of Wisdom to fulfill the purpose of God.We need more than a single word of wisdom to navigate all the situations that will come up in life and this is why it is imperative for us to seek the Lord for the Spirit of Wisdom.

In our time today the Holy Spirit showed me from Proverbs:27.11 My son, when you walk in wisdom, My heart is filled with gladness, for the way you live is proof that I’ve not taught you in vain. That we need to walk in Wisdom is vital to living. Wisdom in Himself is an entity we must walk in, which alludes to the fact that we will need to lose who we are, as we walk in Him and it is His nature and characteristics that begin to permeate our lives and not ours.

Wisdom’s nature is Pure, Peaceable, full of understanding, loving, kind, gentle which points to the fact that if we are walking in Him these should be the fruit we exhibit. We always have checks we can do to test ourselves in how we are walking with God and make it a habit to assess ourselves so we keep short time accounts with God. There is no pride in Wisdom even though He knows all things and can do all things and has answers to all things.

The Holy Spirit went on to tell me that He the Lord is filled with gladness when I walk in Wisdom that is when His Nature and Character are exhibited through my life as my fruit shows clearly in action that my deeds are done through His power and hand rather than mine. He reminded me which He always does that Jesus only reflected the will of the Father not His Own even though He was the word of God.

A beautiful lesson that He pointed out to me is that we should live by the voice of the Lord versus the law of God. My sheep Jesus says know my voice and the voice of a stranger they will not follow. As I hear My Father’s voice I judge and my judgment is right because I seek not my desire but the desire of the One who sent Me.

The Spirit of truth guides us into all truth, the full comprehensive reality of the whole truth. Satan He reminded me spoke to Jesus the word in his temptations to move Jesus to sin, but Jesus answered back with the truth He heard from His Father which the Holy Spirit spoke to Him. Thou art My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased that is what you should walk in not the question if you are the son of God.

Jesus knew the voice of His Father and was not going to let questions on the integrity of the voice of His Father shift Him from position. This is why the Holy Spirit pointed out the importance of walking in Wisdom so we are lost in the Nature of God and can’t be seen. This is so that God is the Person revealed through us and that pleases Him as it did with Jesus. The Spirit of Wisdom is the answer which no one can thwart.

When walking in Wisdom we don’t have to pretend to be, but we just are, as our weakness is swallowed up in His Strength and that’s where we should always want to be and walk in.

In this posture of walking in the Spirit of wisdom it proves we have not been taught in vain but we reflect who God is to our world. In other words our light so shines that men see our good works and glorify our Father in Heaven and we bear Him much fruit which remains.

May your story be today that you walk in the Spirit of Wisdom and let every grace you need be supplied to you through these words and let the Holy Spirit broaden your scope so that you will reflect the nature and character of Jesus in all your doings going forward in Jesus Name. Amen.

In my communion time with the Holy Spirit this morning He reminded me of some of the key things in my relationship with Him that continue to guarantee triumph in life because I choose to walk in those realities and directed me to share this word with you this morning as you progress through this new year in which there will be no more defeats, or shame and disgrace but days of glory and grace filled with the miracles, signs and wonders which are the product of a life lived for God.

Allow these words to minister grace to you to come forth triumphant in Jesus name. Amen.

In my relationship with the Lord which has spanned three decades and more the thing that has most impacted me is fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Through His help and inspiration has made my study of scripture, my prayer life and productivity alive.

The input of the Holy Spirit has allowed and enabled me to use the knowledge of God not on my basis but in the way God intended so that bearing fruit and that fruit remaining is my primary object and seeing it happen. In other words having results which is the purpose of having a covenant with God who possesses everything.

It is not how much scripture I know or how well I can present it that matters but what the Lord wants conveyed to His people at each given point that really matters because Jesus came so we could experience life and enjoy it in its fullest measure.

As I have shared previously, the guarding of our hearts is the primary responsibility the Holy Spirit seeks to build in us. This is because no matter what we hear or receive of a word from God our hearts have to process through that word and whatever controls our hearts will determine the eventual result we will have. What God said or a variation He did not say of death which your heart yielded to instead.

When the Lord stresses something we need to do with diligence it is a priority and we cannot be slack in that area because everything is dependent on how diligent we are in that area of our hearts to do what the Lord requires. Now diligence requires constant doing over and over again the same thing daily and it becomes a habit that I consciously do as part of my routine on purpose.

My heart is that important to God for productivity and also to the enemy because he will do anything to get my agreement so he can rob me and ultimately God of achieving something in a time frame of His will on earth. Satan always wants to delay God’s things to help create doubt in God’s people and humans of God’s faithfulness and uses men’s hearts to achieve his evil plans.

The Holy Spirit needs us to protect our hearts and what enters them truth or deception or error which always makes room for satan and his schemes. The Holy Spirit or the Spirit of Truth wants to establish truth in our hearts.

Remember it was not theft, or sexual sin or some deep evil thing, sin that got Eve to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil but the lie that she would become smart and have the ability to know more about life. She already knew everything because God had said it but the spin of new knowledge and fresh revelation that God was seemingly hiding from her, caused her to give her heart to a lie and what a fall and loss and disappointment.

Now this is why we now as disciples of Jesus need to guard our hearts diligently so we do not fall after the same lies in our heart that rob us of God’s best. Submit your heart to be filled with the knowledge of God, refuse your heart to entertain doubt and unbelief about anything God says.

Train your heart to listen carefully to What God says and then only say what the word of God says and when you miss it in saying repent and turn back to saying what God says. That will reverse the negative process. It will convince you to be more diligent when you see the length to which he will go to get your heart.

You will need to do this over and over again. Through it you will see how diligent satan is to stop you and that should spur you on to keep guarding your heart in what you think, say and feed it with, throughout each day.

When you feel you have arrived at doing it continue don’t relax and take a break from guarding your heart, you cannot afford that luxury you must keep going as guarding your heart is for a lifetime not a month or even a year and you have graduated and have arrived and can have a breather from exhaustion.

You will need it for life as you will discover that satan will not let up on his pursuit for control of your heart because that is what he can and does run on your failures to keep your heart and uses your power taken by deception to control you and keep you in bondage as a slave to his dictates. Now you will miss it but the key is to be quick to repent and turn and get back to doing it.

The Holy Spirit will help you because He needs you for the Lord’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. He knows your weaknesses better than you do but can and will provide the strength you need to overcome them and be triumphant.

He is the best Teacher you will ever have in life and will comfort and help you till you make it. So today determine in your heart for He needs your agreement to work for and in you, He will never violate your heart, He requires your consent and then will work with you and empower you to cooperate with Him to achieve the will of Jesus for your life.

The Holy Spirit is the Perfect Gentleman. Commit your heart to diligently guard it so it will bear the fruit and that more abundantly that Jesus wants and desires it for you to have to glorify His name in all the earth. Have a new start up loaded in the vigor of the Holy Spirit and let your open heart in Him propel you to bring forth fruit for the Kingdom today in Jesus Name. Amen.