This morning the Holy Spirit spoke a word through me from Colossians.3 that came through clearly in my view and captivated my whole being. The Holy Spirit has many ways in which He conveys messages to us to get our attention on what really matters and ensure that we are keeping up with Him and not lagging back.
The Holy Spirit is such a perfect mentor who knows exactly what you need when you need it and has the power available to make what is needed available for you in an instant to manifest it for your benefit.Thank you Jesus for the indescribable gift of the Holy Spirit to be the support, help and aid we need to succeed in life and be productive for the glory of Jesus.
Let us look at the scripture the Holy spirit quickened to me Colossians.3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
You say well I know Christ dwells or lives in me so what is new and special about that? I will explain what the Holy Spirit wanted to further enlarge the truth in me about the word of the Lord. We first of all see that we are the ones who must give permission to the word of Christ to dwell in us.
How we choose to see or interpret the word of the Lord and apply it to our lives will determine how it will impact us. You could say let the word of Christ dwell poorly in you in foolishness, complaining, and negative words just causing you harm and affecting others negatively bringing disrepute to Jesus’ name and we see so much of that in the lives of believers.
It is our choice to let the word of Christ dwell richly in us by our diligence in confessing that word continually and meditating on it over and over again till it actually starts dwelling, living and breathing in and through us.
The Holy Spirit reminder is to awaken us back to increasing our confession and meditation which gives Him more room and scope in us to perform the word of Christ in our lives Romans.10:10. We need to deny ourselves daily, not just weekly or monthly and take up our cross and follow Jesus. You cannot follow Jesus by leading Him and directing the path forward.
“How we respond to the word of Christ in us today will determine how much it will live, work and abide in us for this today.”
“We need to allow the word to richly impact our lives. We need to receive it as rich and more valuable than our daily food and clothing needs and pursue it more faithfully than resources for ourselves.”
Remember that it is Jesus who said take heed how you hear the word, because the measure you use will be measured back to you, meaning that the value you place on it will determine how much it will benefit you. If you don’t allow it to influence your decisions daily it will not change things for you.
“We are the determiners of how much the word of Christ will benefit us.”
So if you are unhappy with your results then change the way you see and value the Word of Christ in your individual life and do what is necessary by your confession and meditation to increase its potency in you.
The Holy Spirit will not force the word of Christ on you, but can guide you, lead you if you will, to the pertinent word. However if you will not follow Him, He will not make it happen for you without your consent, agreement and cooperation and what you want from hearing it.
I am conscious that the Holy Spirit was wanting me to up my confessions and meditation on the Word of Christ to me today because there are things that will need me to be at my strongest spiritually to overcome so I will have maximum benefits of what the Lord wants to accomplish through me today and in this season which require the strength of the word of Christ richly dwelling, residing in me so the Holy Spirit can use them in me to accomplish what He planned and purposed for me to do for the glory of His name.
The phrase God gave Joshua in his commission to only be strong and courageous. Well the Lord had already pointed out to Joshua that meditation day and night on His word would achieve that strength in Joshua which would enable him to observe what to do as the word of Christ took hold within him richly.
“This process of daily allowing or permitting the word of Christ to dwell, reside and abide in you richly will always determine what the Holy Spirit will be able to accomplish through you for Jesus on any occasion in life.”
My prayer for you today is that as you hear these words and take them to heart, grace through them will propel you to richly value the worth of what Christ spoke beyond anything that you knew or understood before and make you a recipient of the non ending Might of the power of the Most High to work out extraordinary signs, wonders and miracles on your behalf to glorify Jesus and His name in your life.
I will deal with the other aspects of this word in future posts so the full benefit of the word of the Lord will be available to you and all of its out workings will be made a reality in your daily lives as richly as the Holy Spirit wants and desires you to experience in Jesus name. Amen.