In my communion time with the Holy Spirit this morning I was reminded of the reality of what it takes in life to see the cycle of the Lord come through to reality in our lives. We need to have all the necessary ingredients working together to see the will of God manifested in our lives.

We must be willing to work with the Holy Spirit to guide us through the process and show us where we need to make adjustments and realignments that are necessary to bring us through. Romans.8:26-28. The same Lord who said we need to trust Him said we also need patience and endurance so that after we have done His will we will inherit the promise.

Patience is patience which means we will have to wait some things out and have an attitude of gratitude while we wait otherwise patience cannot be worked out in us. We need patience to have its perfect work in us so we are complete lacking nothing.James.1:4.

Jesus takes time in Mark.4:3-34 to share a whole discourse with His disciples and the other people about the message of the Kingdom and how it actually operates. He first tells it in a parable which is likely most will not understand and will forget or lose sight of by the end of the day.

Then He points out very clearly in verse 9 And He said to them, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” This statement means that not all who heard what Jesus said heard Him and He spoke of the inner ear pointing to the fact that the inner ear is what means you can track with God and have understanding in the things of God.

You will then see that once Jesus makes that statement only those who follow Him will be able to move forward on it because they will have the opportunity to ask further questions about the meaning of what Jesus was saying verse 10 But when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parable.

If you watch closely what happened you will see that when Jesus starts talking specifics. A clarity of the facts starts emerging and we see a process which is not available if you just heard the parable and moved on.

“The ability to ask the relevant questions for an explanation of the Parable is what made available the truth of the operation of the Kingdom which we can live by once we understand it.”

There are privileges we as followers of Jesus have and Jesus begins by outlining these facts in verse 11 And He said to them, “To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables, 12 so that ‘Seeing they may see and not perceive, And hearing they may hear and not understand; Lest they should turn, And their sins be forgiven them.’ ”

Now I came to learn this lesson as I spent time seeking to understand from the Holy Spirit what scripture was speaking to me and if I had a right to partake of it. I wanted to know what would qualify me to partake of it. I began to see that not all the words Jesus spoke were for everybody and I realized that qualifications were always stipulated as to who could partake.

I also began to see who could not partake of what Jesus said and I determined I would do what was necessary to qualify for the benefit of what Jesus offered because it brought life.

I remember spending hours going over the introduction to the letters of Paul, John, Peter, James, Jude and the Holy Spirit pointing out to me who qualified for what and who they were addressing.

An example would be the Church in Corinth could not walk as the church in Ephesus and use the whole armor of God to go against the schemes of the devil and overcome them because they were carnal (enmity with God) which means they worked in collaboration with satan so Paul could not talk to them about fighting and overcoming the devil and said so.

Recognize this fact you cannot fight the person who you side with. I cannot speak to you about the deep things of the Spirit because you are babies and it would destroy you because it is meat solid food.

Back to Mark.4:9 to the disciple it has been given the grace to know the things pertaining to the Kingdom, but the knowledge must be applied to seek the Lord to know. As we see here Jesus gave the taster and cliff hanger He who has an ear to hear let him hear.

“ I realized that to say you have the ear to hear is one thing, but to apply the ear and hear is completely different, because that process of application to hear means you get the knowledge from the Holy Spirit. Get to own it and can then use it by applying it to various life situations, and see it work each time for your benefit.”

“ It is a requirement for the hearer to make sure he knows what he hears and understands it. Then applies it for his benefit which Jesus goes on to insist.” Verse.24 Take heed what you hear because how you hear will determine your final result.

The full concept concerning the Kingdom is that there is a process and it will involve seasons and you will need to build various temperaments in order to come out on top. These are the Character traits of the Lord which the Holy Spirit will grace you to walk in to achieve the God intended goal and inheritance for your individual life. Don’t grow weary in well doing for in due season you will reap if you do not faint. Galatians.6:9.

“That means if you faint you lose out and if you grow weary in doing good it impedes you.”

We have a part to play in the operation of the Kingdom and we need to take our responsibility seriously and work out our salvation with fear and trembling. Take all the lessons the Holy Spirit teaches you seriously because you will need them to transition into every blessing the Lord has for you. I have learnt by experience that the more you yield to the Holy Spirit the greater and easier your path will become to navigate.

The Holy Spirit will always be available to bring to your remembrance all the things the Lord has taught you so keep a repentant heart available so when you miss it you. It is easy to quickly make the adjustment and come back to the Lord in repentance and turn. Then find deliverance which only comes through the forgiveness of sins which Jesus points out in verse12 that means you will gain the Kingdom back if you can turn.

I have noted that whenever a person could not find a place for repentance in the bible that life is lost and that is why we must guard against hard heartedness and stubbornness because they will always rob you of God’s best in your life.

I have given you much to chew on and will leave it here and ask that the Holy Spirit grant you grace to know and understand the operation of the Kingdom from these words. May He provide you an avenue of escape from any peculiar situation that has baffled you and kept you rerunning negative patterns that are almost causing you to quit.

Then grant you the way out supernaturally that will startle you and give you a new story of victory and triumph from the Lord that builds your confidence in the ability of your Father in Jesus name. Amen.

Take time to meditate on Mark.4 for what further insight the Holy Spirit will give you about the Kingdom.