During my communion time this morning, the Holy Spirit stirred an awakening to a greater awareness of the vast depths about Himself still to be known and revealed to me through Scripture. The impression from the Holy Spirit was very clear that He desires for us to be so filled and saturated with His nature and character that only He is visibly expressed through our lives.

The Lord’s intention is that we follow and serve exclusively the will of Jesus, just as Jesus declared in John 5:30, that He sought not to do His own will but the will of the Father who sent Him.

The Holy Spirit in this conversation brought up a much deeper understanding of truths I already knew, by showing me not only their spiritual meaning and application, but also their practical application for manifesting greater glory to the Lord.

Central among these was 1 Corinthians 2:9–12, which teaches us about the things the Lord has prepared for those who love Him which cannot be perceived by our natural senses but must be revealed to us through the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is the Only Person that searches all things, even the deep things of God. Just as a person’s own spirit is the one who knows their own inner thoughts, in like manner only the Holy Spirit of God knows the thoughts of God. As followers of Jesus the Anointed One we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we may know what has been freely given to us as an inheritance.

The Holy Spirit reminded me that He alone is the One who enables us to see beyond our present limitations to a place far beyond plains and mountains into the reality of what the Lord has prepared for us in this season of our journey with Him.

Without daily communion with the Holy Spirit, the knowledge of the Lord remains ineffective because our natural minds cannot discern spiritual realities, so we end up aborting the plan of the Lord by regarding it as foolish which is reinforced again in 1 Corinthians 2:12.

Jesus’ words about the advantage of His departure to return to the Father underscored the necessity of the Holy Spirit’s coming. Through Him, we as followers and lovers of Jesus are helped in weakness and empowered to serve the Lord in Spirit and truth, which is what the Father seeks as recorded in John 4:23 & 24 .

The reality is that service in the flesh outside the Spirit cannot produce truth, because the flesh resists truth. Only the Spirit of truth can produce authentic obedience, as affirmed by Jesus in John 6:63.

Truth must be revealed so that our spiritual eyes are opened because the human heart is naturally deceptive and susceptible to surrender to lies. As written in Jeremiah 17:9–10, the heart is deceitful above all things, and only the Lord searches and tests it.

Since we understand from this scripture that only the Holy Spirit truly searches the heart, our total dependence upon His guidance is absolutely essential for anything of eternal value to happen in our lives. The Holy Spirit alone reveals truth to us concerning every matter and shows us future events, as promised by Jesus in John 16:13.

On a personal note in my zeal as a new Christian I attempted to convince my family members through biblical arguments with scripture which proved ineffective because it did not persuade them but kept bringing up biblical arguments on how they viewed scripture.

However, when the Holy Spirit directed me to make a shift toward deeper fellowship with Him rather than word persuasion, He began revealing future events to me concerning their lives that I then shared with them which were subsequently fulfilled in their lives.

This visible manifestation of the Holy Spirit’s power transformed their former skepticism into openness into them now wanting me to share the reality of the Lord with them and a desire to know and serve the Lord which went on to happen. This demonstrated to me the reality that the Kingdom of Jesus is not mere words but a demonstration of the Spirit and power, as stated in 1Corinthians 2:4–5 so that their faith would be in God and not man.

The core theme of 1Corinthians 2:12 remains foundational for spiritual maturity for all believers who have received the Spirit from God to know what has been freely given to them. Remember that Jesus desires us walking in certainty concerning the Kingdom and not in suspense, with knowledge downloaded by the Holy Spirit, and not human guesswork.

Always remember that just as Jesus lived in full dependence on the Holy Spirit, we as His followers are called to surrender our hearts more completely, in order to be guided continually as affirmed again in John 16:13. Jesus operated under the Holy Spirit’s direction and achieved perfect results.

So the same tenacity and zeal Jesus exhibited is required of us to seek the Holy Spirit’s counsel over our natural instinct, by rejecting the spirit of the world, and embracing the Holy Spirit of truth wholeheartedly. This pattern is reflected in Luke 4:1,2,14, where Jesus was led and empowered by the Spirit.

I pray that the Holy Spirit would open your spiritual eyes and grant you abundant grace, just as the Lord empowered Noah to build the ark, thus enabling him and his family preservation through judgment to live after the flood. In the same way, you as followers of Jesus are to build your lives under the Holy Spirit’s direction, so that you will emerge victorious and triumphant over and beyond all the floods and turmoil of the enemy’s attacks in Jesus name. Amen.

Remember that the Holy Spirit desires for you to know everything necessary for your complete triumph in all things in this season. Living a life no longer living with inconsistent patterns of defeat and minimal survival, but experiencing daily the abundant life Jesus purchased for you to have, as promised in John 10:10.

May the Holy Spirit increase in your heart more and more until His Presence and Power are overflowing from your life just as they did in Jesus life.

I declare in the mighty Name of Jesus that the Holy Spirit is saturating you with His nature and character as your spiritual eyes are opening to the deep things of God. The Knowledge of the Lord is being downloaded from heaven into your heart and confusion is leaving you and clarity of vision and purpose is rising within you.

I decree that you will no longer rely on your natural instinct or the spirit of this world, but you will walk under the direction of the Holy Spirit of truth.

I declare that what has been freely given to you by revelation from the Holy Spirit will be manifested in your life and all the floods of opposition will no longer overwhelm you. In the name of Jesus you are now building by divine instruction from the Holy Spirit and you are emerging on the other side in victory with miraculous results.

I decree that you will no longer live in hit-and-miss cycles of ups and downs but, you will walk in consistent triumph and in the abundant life Jesus has secured for you, and this shall be your testimony in this season in Jesus’ mighty Name. Amen.