The message centres on the Holy Spirit revealing a deeper understanding of how offences affect the follower of Jesus’s soul and how the Lord Himself responds to our human failure. The Holy Spirit brought further insight into truths I already knew and have walked in for years, producing greater liberty, peace, joy, and a settling of the soul in this area. This settling refers to the alignment of my mind, will, emotions, and intellect with the Holy Spirit, which is described as the ultimate goal of our faith according to 1 Peter.1:9 which reads “the end of your faith, being the salvation of your souls.”

The Holy Spirit then addressed the issue of taking offence by asking why certain situations involving people and events still produce inner agitation within my heart. Though I had already understood from Luke.17:1 that offences are inevitable in life, and had previously learned to cast these burdens upon the Lord according to 1 Peter.5:7, the Holy Spirit revealed that merely handing the offences over intellectually was not enough. He wanted the deeper root for the offence exposed, then rooted out and healed.

As the Holy Spirit confronted the issue of offences I admitted that my not fully understanding why repeated small issues or familiar situations could suddenly provoke irritation, strange behavioural actions, and emotional disturbance even after having been overlooked previously.

The Holy Spirit then revealed how the Lord Himself responds to offences from humanity. He explained that if He the Lord became offended by every wrong deed committed against Him daily, He would never accomplish His will on earth because humanity continually resists, disrupts, and spoils His plans through our limited thinking.

The Holy Spirit pointed to Genesis.6:5-8, where the Lord saw the wickedness of humanity and was grieved in His heart because every intent of man’s thoughts was evil continually. Though deeply pained and sorrowful, the Lord did not abandon His eternal purpose for mankind.

Instead, He caused Noah to find grace in His eyes, and through that grace the Lord preserved His redemptive plan for humanity. The Holy Spirit emphasised that the Lord refused to allow man’s failures or satan’s schemes against man to derail His purpose and covenant intentions.

Through this insight I came to understand that if the Lord counted every offence and every wrong against humanity, His plan for redemption and the establishment of His Kingdom on earth would never succeed. Instead, the Lord chose mercy. Psalm.103:10-14 reveals that He does not deal with us according to our sins, but removes our transgressions far from us.

The Holy Spirit reminded me that the Lord purposefully forgets sins, then casts them into the sea of forgetfulness, and continually creates a new path forward despite our human weakness and repeated failures.

The Holy Spirit also revealed that destroying the object of His love which is mankind on every time offences arise would only have handed victory to satan and negate the Lord’s eternal original plan. Therefore, the Lord remains steadfast, patient, and purposeful, refusing to allow offences to stop His love, mercy, and Kingdom agenda.

This revelation deeply humbled and moved me and led me to make holy resolutions never again to allow offences by people to aid satan in disrupting the Lord’s purpose on earth. The Holy Spirit went on to show me many examples throughout scripture where the Lord could justifiably have abandoned humanity, yet instead He responded with perseverance, mercy, and unwavering commitment to His redemptive plan.

This message seeks to exhort followers of Jesus not to allow offences from spouses, children, colleagues, or others to sabotage their relationship with the Lord and ruin the spiritual agenda of their day. The Holy Spirit warns that satan always uses offences to derail bus from God’s best and to weaken our spiritual effectiveness. Instead, we as followers of Jesus are called to respond in ways that promote the Lord’s Kingdom rather than empowering darkness through bitterness.

The overall theme of this conversation is that mature spiritual freedom only comes through refusing to live offended, through learning from the Lord’s own response to human weakness, and remaining steadfast in fulfilling the Lord’s purpose regardless of how others behave.

Just as the Father continually extends grace to humanity through the sacrifice of Jesus once and for all. We as followers of Jesus are called to walk in grace, forgiveness, steadfastness, and unwavering devotion to the Lord’s plan which is rooted in His love for mankind.

This special time concluded with an encouragement for us to embrace these truths so that grace may flow abundantly toward bus as Jesus’s followers, to keep us from stumbling, then enabling us to fulfil every good thing and work the Lord has ordained for our lives, according to Jude.24.

In the name of Jesus may the Holy Spirit heal every wounded place in your soul and align your mind, your will, your emotions, and intellect completely with the will of the Lord. May every root of offence, bitterness, irritation, and emotional sabotage be uprooted from your heart in Jesus’ name. Now just as the Lord has shown mercy toward you, may His grace empower you to walk above offences and remain steadfast in His purpose.

I declare that no scheme of satan will derail the plan of the Lord for your life, and may the Lord keep you from stumbling and present you faultless before His glory with exceeding joy according to Jude.24. May your life reflect the patience, mercy, endurance, and triumph of Jesus Christ, and may every good thing ordained for you be fully accomplished for His glory in Jesus Name. Amen.