This message begins with a fresh encounter concerning the operation of the anointing during my communion time with the Holy Spirit, who immediately brought Acts 10:38 to my remembrance which reads these words: “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil, for God was with Him.”

The Holy Spirit then posed the searching question: Has this reality changed today? The answer is an emphatic no. Since Isaiah 9:7 declares that “of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end,” the Kingdom of Jesus has not ceased, nor has His ministry diminished.

Therefore, God continues to anoint the followers of Jesus with the same Holy Spirit and power so they may continue Christ’s ministry of doing good, by healing the oppressed, and revealing the reality of His Kingdom to the world. This revelation serves as a powerful reminder that every disciple of Jesus bears the responsibility of reflecting Christ’s life, character, and anointing to a world suffering under satanic oppression.

As followers of Jesus we are called to demonstrate that Jesus remains the answer to every work of darkness through the power of the Holy Spirit operating in and through us to demolish the works of darkness and oppression. As the conversation with the Holy Spirit continued, it became evident that every fresh word from the Lord requires a corresponding response of obedience.

Whenever the Lord speaks, He is inviting His people into a new level of alignment, often requiring significant changes in our attitude, our increased faith walk, and action in order to walk in the new direction He has prepared for us to demonstrate His glory on earth. The Holy Spirit also reaffirmed an essential principle we must always remember that He will never speak anything to us that is contrary to Scripture.

Every revelation He gives will always agree with the written Word of God because His ministry is to guide us the followers of Jesus into truth, and not deception. As Jesus declared in John 16:13, the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth who leads God’s people into liberty, freedom from oppression, and the abundant life Christ purchased for us.

The Holy Spirit then directed my attention to the context surrounding Acts 10:36–37, emphasising that the Lord sent a word of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all. Jesus proclaimed this divinely sent message throughout Judea after John’s baptism, and those who believed and received that word experienced deliverance from the oppression of the devil.

Deliverance clearly began with a word from the Lord that required faith-filled reception in order for it to work on our behalf. This principle is further illustrated in John 1:6–13, where the Lord sent John the Baptist to bear witness to the true Light, Jesus Christ. Although Christ came into the world He created, many rejected Him.

However, those who believed and received Him were given the right to become the children of God. The Holy Spirit emphasised the fact that the Lord’s Kingdom advances through words He sends by His servants, but only those who receive those words by faith can experience the rights, promises, and blessings contained within them.

The revelation then highlighted Luke 5:17–20, where Jesus was teaching and “the power of the Lord was present to heal them.” So although many religious leaders and listeners were physically present, they failed to receive healing despite the power being available to heal them. In contrast, we see how the paralytic’s friends demonstrated determined faith by removing part of the roof and lowering the man before Jesus. Seeing their faith, Jesus first forgave the man’s sins and then healed him.

This account reveals clearly that even when the Lord’s healing power may be fully present, yet only those who respond with genuine faith connect with what the Lord is making available. This contrast of us having to take corresponding action to receive serves as a warning to us not to respond to the Lord’s work with unbelief, criticism, or passive observation, lest one miss the very blessing the Lord has provided right in our faces.

The Holy Spirit further revealed that He continues to fill His servants with the Holy Spirit and power, entrusting them with words of deliverance for the Lord’s people. Those who receive these divinely sent words by faith obtain the grace, freedom, healing, and transformation the Lord intended through them. Others may reject the same word because of unbelief or offence toward the messenger, thereby forfeiting the benefits the Lord desired to impart to them because of this human reasoning.

The difference between receiving and rejecting the Lord’s word through His servants is profound. The Lord reaches His people through the words He sends by His Spirit-filled servants, but it is the hearer’s response of faith that activates those promises to happen within their own life. This principle is reinforced by Hebrews 2:1–4, which exhorts us to give earnest attention to what they have heard so they do not drift away.

The Holy Spirit makes divine power available through the proclamation of the Lord’s Word, but each individual must respond in faith to connect with that grace and experience the manifestation of the Lord’s intended purpose. I will conclude with a personal testimony of how the Holy Spirit started me in my walk with Him by revealing to me that I would minister the Lord’s Word among the nations, and how I chose to believe and receive that promise by faith.

The Lord has faithfully fulfilled that calling, and countless people who likewise received the Lord’s word through my ministry have testified to receiving miracles, signs, wonders, and fulfilled promises in their lives. This serves as living evidence that the Lord’s Word accomplishes exactly what He sends it to do when it is received with faith.

The message closes with an earnest appeal from the Holy Spirit for repentance wherever as followers of Jesus we have rejected the Lord’s Word because of offence toward a servant of the Lord. This invitation is to open your hearts afresh, to receive the Word of the Lord, and once again experience the continual manifestation of the Lord’s promises, through miracles, signs, wonders, healing, deliverance, and freedom from every oppression of the devil, as we become fruitful witnesses to the reality of Jesus Christ.

I declare in the mighty name of Jesus that your heart is being opened afresh to receive every word the Holy Spirit sends to you. Every lying offence, unbelief, disappointment, and resistance that has hindered your reception of the Lord’s truth is removed by His grace from your life. May the same Holy Spirit who anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit and power now empower you to reveal His goodness, proclaim His Kingdom, and bring freedom to those oppressed by the enemy.

I declare that you will recognise the Lord’s voice, receive His Word with faith, and experience the full manifestation of every promise He has spoken over your life. As you embrace His truth, you shall walk in continual freedom, healing, miracles, signs, and wonders, as you become a fruitful witness of Christ’s living power. May you be filled afresh with the Holy Spirit and power, to go forth bearing lasting fruit that glorifies Jesus and demonstrates that His Kingdom continues to increase upon the earth in Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.