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.