This message begins with a declaration of Psalm.118:24’s invitation to rejoice in each new day and be glad, by emphasising the fact that every new day is a fresh beginning ordained by the Lord. The Holy Spirit then drew my attention to a vital issue in the follower of Jesus’s walk on how much value we place on people’s words spoken as compared with the voice and leading of the Holy Spirit.

The central exhortation is that as followers of Jesus we must intentionally prioritise our total agreement with, confession of, and obedience to the Holy Spirit’s words, because it is through His revealed Word that we will prosper and experience true success in life. The Holy Spirit highlighted John 5:19, where Jesus declared these words that:“The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.” (John 5:19)

This points to the fact that although Jesus Himself was the living Word of God, He did not operate independently from His Father’s present direction. So rather than relying merely on His knowledge of Scripture, Jesus depended upon the Holy Spirit’s daily revelation of the Father’s will spoken to Him thus demonstrating the importance of communion with the Holy Spirit. This serves as the pattern for every follower of Jesus to follow as the model in our lives.

The Holy Spirit went on to ask an important question on how much time we are spending observing what He is saying and doing compared with just simply acting on what we already think we know from Scripture?

The warning is that it is very easy to become trapped in religious routines as we just keep doing things for the Lord based on habit, tradition, or accumulated knowledge, rather than yielding to the Holy Spirit’s present leading, which often requires faith actions because it leads us beyond natural reasoning. As 2 Corinthians 3:6 reminds us, it is the Spirit who gives life. The Holy Spirit then directed my attention to Joshua 1:1–7, where the Lord gives Joshua extraordinary promises concerning the conquest of the Promised Land.

Yet before Joshua could ever experience any of those promises, the Lord established an essential condition and pattern for living in Joshua 1:8 which reads these words that:“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” (Joshua 1:8)

This word reveals the Lord’s divine order for success. It makes clear that the first priority in life is knowing the Word of God, and now in our dispensation now fulfilled in the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus is what must continually remain in our mouths, and not merely in our thoughts or private reading. As taught in Romans 8:1–17, we as Jesus’s followers now live under the law of the Spirit of life, which has set us free from the law of sin and death.

The Holy Spirit asks us as Jesus’s followers to examine how consistently we are confessing what Jesus says about us. Are we following what Psalm 107:2 declares which is:“Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.”We must recognise that our confession is not optional, but that it is part of our daily meditation itself. The second priority is continual meditation, of speaking the Lord’s word day and night until it fills our hearts and aligns our thinking with the Lord’s perspective on things.

According to Romans 10:10, our believing in the heart must be accompanied by our confession with the mouth:” For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” (Romans 10:10).

This process of confession positions us to observe what the Holy Spirit is revealing so we can obey it. Our meditation time is not just merely repeating Scripture because it develops our spiritual perception so that we can accurately recognise the Lord’s direction and know what He is specifically instructing us to do at any given moment.

It is only after this process of meditation and observance that we find prosperity and good success following. The pathway to victory is not acting quickly on what seems obvious in the natural, but on discerning the path the Holy Spirit reveals to us.

This message illustrates this through the life of Joshua himself. Where years earlier, he and Caleb returned from spying out the promised land, Joshua boldly declared these words: “Let us go up at once and possess it.” We see in this that although his faith confession was genuine, it lacked the Lord’s timing and present instruction.

This is why faith alone, without the Holy Spirit’s leading which incorporates wisdom and understanding, could have produced failure in their lives because they were not following the Lord’s direct mandate.

Many years later the Lord still teaches Joshua to meditate on the word until he observes what to do, showing that genuine success in the Kingdom requires both faith and divine direction. This same principle is what governed Moses’ leadership. Moses always refused to move forward unless the Lord moved first, thus choosing always to follow the Lord’s Presence rather than his personal initiative.

Likewise, we find that King David repeatedly inquired of the Lord before going into battle, and every time he followed the Lord’s instructions he experienced victory and good success. The Holy Spirit therefore urges us as Jesus’s followers to seek this same posture of dependence on Him by waiting patiently until His direction is clear rather than acting presumptuously based upon our personal opinions or assumptions about the Lord’s will. Habakkuk.2:1.

Finally, this word reminds us as followers of Jesus that the Lord’s thoughts and ways are infinitely higher than ours (Isaiah 55:8–11). True wisdom is found in us surrendering our own understanding to the Lord and embracing His perspective. Like the wind described by Jesus in John 3:8, the Holy Spirit moves according to His own divine purpose, and we as His followers are called to follow His leading rather than relying on our natural reasoning.

The overall call in this word is for us to cultivate a lifestyle of meditation, confession, with careful observation, and complete dependence upon the Holy Spirit to unveil truth to us so that our every step is directed by Him. This is the pathway we must adopt to ensure we walk in the enduring prosperity, fruitful ministry, and lasting success in the Kingdom of the Lord which He has qualified us to be partakers of.

In the name of Jesus, may the grace of the Holy Spirit rest upon you to become a diligent meditator on the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. May your mouth continually confess what the Lord says concerning you, and may your heart become increasingly sensitive to the voice and movements of the Holy Spirit. May every urge and tendency toward premature action, presumption, or reliance upon natural understanding be replaced with patient obedience and spiritual discernment.

As you meditate day and night on the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus and observe what the Lord is directing you to do, may He cause you to make your way prosperous and grant you good success according to Joshua 1:8.

May you follow the Holy Spirit just as Jesus did, by walking in the Father’s perfect will, by seeing into His higher thoughts and ways being fulfilled in your life (John 5:19; Isaiah 55:8–11). May every venture you undertake under His direction become a testimony of His wisdom, power, and faithfulness, bringing glory to the Father in Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.