The Holy Spirit is calling His people today to stop the striving, become still, and listen carefully to what He is saying to your spirit. He desires us as followers of Jesus to open our hearts fully to His counsel, in order to receive His instruction, and allow His words to shape our decisions and actions.

Rather than reacting hastily or implusively, or acting upon partial understanding, the Lord is urging His people to remain attentive until He has fully communicated His will to your spirit so you carry out exactly what He is saying to you rather than merely what you assume He means.

The Holy Spirit emphasised the importance of spiritual discernment through the example in the life of Elijah in 1 Kings 19:11-13. During a critical moment in Elijah’s life, the Lord revealed Himself through several manifestations that Elijah had previously associated with God’s activity.

There was a powerful wind, an earthquake, and a fire, yet Scripture makes it clear that the Lord was not speaking through those avenues on that occasion. Elijah had to remain attentive and keep his heart open instead of assuming that the Lord would communicate as He had in the past.

Only after these manifestations did the Lord speak through a still small voice. So because Elijah remained sensitive and discerning, even when he saw physical manifestations of the Lord he knew before, he was able to recognise the true voice of Lord and receive the specific instructions he needed to move forward.

His deliverance, direction, and future assignment depended upon him correctly discerning what the Lord was saying at that moment rather than being distracted by familiar experiences with no clear purpose.

The Holy Spirit wants us as followers of Jesus to learn from this example and stop presuming that we already understand His guidance based on previous encounters, past victories, or familiar patterns.

The Lord may choose to speak differently in a new season to demonstrate a new aspect of His Character and dimensions of glory and we His people must remain patient enough to allow Him to complete the conversation before acting prematurely.

This important revelation stresses the fact that many people miss the Lord’s best because they move out too quickly, acting on assumptions rather than waiting for clarity from the Lord on how to proceed.

The Holy Spirit desires us as followers of Jesus to listen to Him until all His specific instructions are fully revealed, because within His guidance lies the answers, solutions, deliverance, provision, and breakthroughs needed for every circumstance in life.

The Holy Spirit also brought attention to another significant moment in Elijah’s ministry, when after the restoration of rain after three years of drought. Elijah remained in prayer while repeatedly sending his servant to look toward the horizon.

Six times the servant returned with a negative report that nothing was visible, yet Elijah did not abandon his position of faith or presume that the Lord’s promise had failed.

Instead, Elijah remained attentive to the Lord and continued to press in through concerted prayer. On the seventh occasion, the servant finally reported seeing a small cloud, no larger than a man’s hand. Elijah immediately recognised this as the sign he had been waiting for and understood that the long-awaited rain was about to arrive in torrents.

This account demonstrates Elijah’s dependence on the voice and timing of the Lord rather than relying on outward appearances, human reasoning, or previous experiences. He stayed attentive, patient, and responsive until the Lord’s purpose was fully revealed.

The Holy Spirit is calling for us as followers of Jesus to cultivate the same posture. He desires us to become better listeners, more patient hearers, and more careful followers of His counsel.

By doing so, we will avoid many traps, pitfalls, and deceptions that the enemy has set before us. We will be preserved from unnecessary mistakes and positioned for far greater success, fruitfulness, and victory in all circumstances in life.

The Lord’s instruction is clear to us to wait patiently for His instructions, by listening completely, understanding fully the purpose of the Lord, and then obeying it precisely as it was given.

Those who do so will experience much greater rejoicing, abundant fruit, and rewarding outcomes because they followed the counsel of the Holy Spirit rather than acting upon assumptions and presumptive generalisation of the present situation.

The message concludes with the encouragement from the Holy Spirit to continually pray and meditate upon Jude 24-25 which reads these words: “Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, To God our Saviour, Who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, Both now and forever. Amen.