The Holy Spirit reminded me this morning in my communion time of a truth He shared with me many years ago that transformed my walk with the Lord and made me receive the benefits and many physical things in my personal life as I put them into practice. He wants me to share these with you today to establish a foundation of truth in you as to how you should position yourself for the manifestation of the Lord’s goodness in your lives.
Have this truth as the centre of your life in the Spirit. God wants you to experience everything His word has promised you on earth. No good thing does the Lord withhold from those who fear and reverence Him. A foundational truth is what you can build upon with more truth and be certain that it will not fall because it is founded on the Rock Jesus Christ Himself.
The question then is why do we keep coming short of what has been promised and what can we do to position ourselves daily for what the Lord promised. In 1 Peter:1.13-19 which says 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; 14 as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; 15 but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.
”Now to gird up the loins of my mind means preparation to reproduce what is in you and be sober which indicates in my best faculties free from anything intoxicating that could possibly affect my true judgements.
The Apostle Paul mentions girding up your waist with truth in Ephesians:6.14 as the basis on wearing the whole armor of God because without the girding the your reproductive mind with truth, error and deception will always be what you reproduce regardless of what you even think you believe and have confessed continually. Without the loins girded with truth the whole armor does not work because the foundation of the Lord is truth and the helper of God for us is the Spirit of Truth who guides us into all truth.
Now presumption that is [action on our own estimation of truth] is not truth as an example Joshua had spies check out Ai before they attacked it and he acted on the basis of what the spies said would be required to take that territory and they came back defeated because although Joshua had faith that God could do anything, He was girded with presumption and paid the price for it with the death of God’s people.
On the other hand Moses in the same position took no action on what the spies said they had found out even though Joshua and Caleb had said we can go up at once and take them down. That was their view God had not given the order and it is presumption to act outside Him speaking.
That situation was going to require the whole army and Israel to be involved to accomplish not a few men. Just goes to show how far our thoughts are from God’s. Moses remember said if You God are not going up with us I am not moving an inch unless under an order from the Lord.
We need to gird our minds and be ready to take action on what the Lord reveals and rest our hope fully on the grace that will be imparted to us to accomplish the God-breathed task. You would have noted that every time I give a word I instruct you to yield to the grace released in that word for that is where the supernatural ability to take God action lies.
We cannot take action in the flesh and expect it to work so we need to rely on the Holy Spirit, the giver of grace to supply the grace necessary for us to do the God thing. I have no power in myself and am totally reliant on the Holy Spirit and what He says because He will bring it to pass if he gave it.
I realized many years ago that no matter the faith I had the hope needed to be imparted by the Holy Spirit for the realization of the God result as was evident in Genesis:1 when God spoke only after the Holy Spirit was hovering over the darkness and things came into reality from that moment onwards was what I needed to experience results in God. Jesus Himself only began manifesting the miracles after He returned in the Power of the Holy Spirit as His mind was girded with the truth and in position rested in the hope to speak at the direction of the Holy Spirit who then manifests the action.
John:5.30 reminds us that Jesus said I can do nothing outside my Father. So Jesus needed His mind girded with truth before He spoke. He pointed out to the jews in John:8.26 I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him.”In other words I can judge most of what you say and do but I only speak as I am girded by the Holy Spirit what My Father wants said not my discretion or feelings on the matter.
That is maturity speaking what God wants regardless of what I feel about the situation. Moses allowed anger not dealt with in God’s Presence rob him of his reward because he answered from his anger when the Lord wanted him to be girded with the word to speak to the rock, and not respond in anger to the behavior of the Israelites and strike the rock twice and not honor God before them. It is more important to obey God than address men’s complaints.
So Gird yourselves today with this truth and the grace supplied through it and rest your mind and heart fully on the revelation the Holy Spirit will provide to accomplish the will of God through you and remain committed to following through in the grace the Holy Spirit supplies continuously rather than what you think and see how different your results will be when the Holy Spirit is leading things and you are following girded up in Him alone and resting in the grace He supplies.
Have a God filled day walking in this truth and see how free you will be as you operate in the Spirit rather than presumption.
David learnt the hard way about presumption and called it sin in Psalm:19.13 Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me.Then I shall be blameless, And I shall be innocent of great transgression.
Presumption can have dominion over me and run my life outside God’s will if I allow it or just act it out and I am found to be in blame and have no leg to stand on. David learnt the woes of presumptuous sins and made enquiry of the Lord his mission as King and God said of him a man after My heart. May that be your story that you seek, hear, then gird yourself and obey only what the Lord wants and see how fruitful and productive your life will be daily in Jesus Name. Amen.