The Holy Spirit says why are you looking to men as your support and help when you have Him as your more than enough help in every situation. To rely on man is a curse and to trust the arm of flesh is like relying on the wind that would blow you away. Jeremiah.17:5-8 The Holy Spirit is our help in times of trouble and times of success. For this reason we need to remember what our strength and strong tower of refuge is. Psalm.46:1-3

The Lord will give you men to support you and be an encouragement to carry out the work you are called to do but they are not your support and refuge. They must never become your place of succour and help in times of need . The Holy Spirit must become your closest and most trusted friend and support in life and your go to place for relief and answers. Certainly this area will be tested in your life by the Lord to know your heart.Genesis.23:12.

The Lord alone wants to be the One to whom you look to for refuge and support, not men. The Holy Spirit today reminded me of David when he was on a mission in 1 Samuel.30:6 Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.

Now David came home to an invasion of all they had in Ziklag and all they had was gone. In this particular encounter all the men who were a support and help to David thought of killing him. However David had to remember that his trust was not in the men he had as an army, but in the Lord who had called him. As David proceeded to encourage himself in the Lord his God.

The Lord he trusted then gave him the way out of that dilemma as he inquired of the Lord. This plan involved the recovery of all that was robbed from them and much spoil in addition. The Lord always turns adversity against us to times of absolute triumph. 2 Chronicles.20:25-30.

It is not that God did not want David to have the support of those men who God had sent to help him, but the Lord wanted David not to rely on the men but on the God who had called him to be the King.

The Lord’s desire was for David to depend solely on Him and not on the support of the men. It is very often a very fine line between trusting what God gives us to help us win and trusting God Himself to be our go to in all situations.

This is because when we see men we feel we have the help ready and available but the Lord we do not see and have to reach out by faith to seek Him and get an answer through prayer. That is more difficult because we have to depend on our faith, which is not seen naturally. However, our faith is what is necessary if we are to remain on top of things in life as this keeps us connected to God. Hebrews.11:6.

I told my closest friend in a season of great physical attack and an enemy barrage/siege that seeking God to find out about a healing and His solution in that situation is far better than consulting a doctor for a diagnosis because the doctor on his finest day, even a Christian doctor. The doctor can be moved by the enemy and the complex symptoms then make mistakes because he is influenced by what he sees.

However the Lord would give her an answer of peace and the friend heeded that counsel and did not consult a doctor. Rather she heeded the word, trusted the Lord and today is alive and well because the Lord brought her out of what no human doctor could have had a solution for.

Today she now has a story of deliverance of the ability of the Holy Spirit to deliver from death and uses it to see others freed for enemy attacks.

What I am sharing with you today by the Holy Spirit is the true advantage we have in the Lord as our go to in time of need. Most definitely the Lord wants our seeking Him for the answer to be our primary source of help.

You will notice that Jesus Himself from the Gospels regardless of the wonderful disciples He picked by the Holy Spirit all left Him at His most vulnerable time. However Jesus still said my Father is with me and will see me through. The Father went on to raise Him from the dead.

Jesus in His hour of trial could not rely on His closest three disciples to watch Him pray in the garden of Gethsemane but they fell asleep. However just watch how the Holy Spirit gave Him strength to carry through to victory and triumph. This is where the Lord wants us to live in complete reliance on the Holy Spirit for all things.

Even the Apostle Paul faced that situation when he spoke that in his first defence all men forsook him but the Lord stood by him and delivered him from his enemies 2 Timothy.4:16-18. This is the greatest strength we will ever have to be able to go to God ourselves and have Him bring us through by the power of the Holy Spirit.

May you today through the grace imparted through these words find the ability to look to the Lord and rely on the Holy Spirit as your first go to in every situation in life. Let Him in every incident in life be your answer so you don’t have to lose relationships in order to learn this reality in life. The Lord wants us to love Him with all our hearts, souls and bodies for this is the first commandment.

When you look at that instruction there is no room for our desires in our hearts for anything that God does not want,so we must be willing to give Him our all to have His all. I recall when the Holy Spirit spoke this to me and told me to surrender all the desires I had as a child which satan was now wanting to fulfill in my life to rob me of my God reward.

I asked forgiveness of the Lord for wanting those things and the Lord caused me to be delivered from things in that season that could have ruined my progression in the things of the Holy Spirit and robbed me of much of my rewards for walking righteously.

Jesus gave His all to accomplish the will of the Father and the Father gave His all to Jesus to rule with Him in the position of Glory eternally. What an honor that we have been granted the privilege to share in that position of glory if we give Him all our hearts in Jesus’ name. Amen.