The Holy Spirit desires us the followers of Jesus to understand a foundational truth about the advantage Jesus has given His followers on the earth. The Lord wants to dismantle the misconception that we are merely strangers on the earth waiting to escape a wicked world for heaven. Instead, Jesus teaches that His followers have been given all the authority and advantage on the earth.
We are called to live victoriously and triumphantly over all evil, serving as the Lord’s custodians and representatives on the earth. We are not fearful victims or escapists from the earth but we are the ones to determine the rulership of Jesus’s Kingdom on the earth. We as Jesus’s followers have been entrusted with all the authority to influence what happens on the earth rather than simply to receive the oppression and destruction the enemy seeks to bring on earth.
As Jesus declared in John 10:10, Satan comes to steal, kill, and destroy, but Jesus came that we might have life and have it more abundantly. The Holy Spirit then directed my attention to Mark 4:11–12, where Jesus tells His disciples these words: “To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God…” This revelation reveals that it is the Lord’s will for every follower of His to know the realities and operations of His Kingdom.
The ability to know has already been given to us by Jesus. However, the Holy Spirit raised an important question that if we have been given the ability to know, why do so many of us remain ignorant? Jesus Himself addressed this question in Mark 4:14 when He questions His disciples about their lack of understanding.
The issue is not the absence of the Lord’s willingness to reveal truth to us, but our failure to diligently pursue understanding of the Kingdom. The Holy Spirit emphasised the fact that possessing the ability to know is entirely different from actively applying oneself to gain greater knowledge.
Our knowledge of the Kingdom does not come automatically. So we as Jesus’s followers must intentionally seek the Lord, by diligently asking Him to explain His ways, as we study His Word, and pursue understanding until Kingdom truth becomes practical reality in our lives.
Just as an expert in the natural is not recognised as an expert simply because of his theoretical knowledge but because of his practical experience, so we as followers of Jesus must move beyond possessing spiritual potential to actively developing Kingdom understanding through obedience and physical experience through manifestation.
The Holy Spirit stresses the fact that we the followers of Jesus must take action to know the mysteries of the Kingdom. It is insufficient merely to acknowledge that such revelation knowledge is available. We must diligently study everything King Jesus teaches, understand His perspective, and learn how His Kingdom principles work. This pursuit aligns with Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 1:17–23, where he asks that we the followers of Jesus receive the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ so that the eyes of our understanding may be enlightened.
A clear biblical example of this reality is found in Mark 11, where Peter carefully observed Jesus speaking to the fig tree. Had Peter failed to notice what Jesus did, he would never have recognised the tree’s miraculous withering the following day. Peter’s attentive observation led him to ask the right question, which in turn prompted Jesus to teach one of the greatest lessons on faith by revealing the authority we as believers possess to speak to mountains and command them to move through our unwavering faith.
The Holy Spirit pointed out that Jesus did not volunteer this teaching unprompted. Peter’s hunger to understand the miraculous unlocked a teaching on greater revelation. This fact demonstrated the necessity of asking the Lord questions and seeking understanding of the deeper truths of the Kingdom . As Jesus taught in Luke 11:10, those who ask always receive, those who seek always find, and those who knock are the ones who have doors opened to them.
Peter had already chosen to follow Jesus therefore, it became his responsibility to observe, inquire, understand, and ultimately practice the truths Jesus demonstrated with the corresponding action. Following Christ requires an active pursuit of revelation by us rather than just making a passive observation of events. The Holy Spirit then highlighted another example from the disciples’ lives in which as they continually observed Jesus, they noticed that His life of miracles was consistently preceded by a life of prayer.
They noted that Jesus repeatedly withdrew to solitary places to commune with the Father. The disciples recognised that there was a direct relationship between His communion with the father and the supernatural power that flowed through His ministry. Consequently, they never asked Jesus to teach them how to heal the sick or cast out demons. Instead, they asked Him to teach them how to pray, recognising that prayer was the source from which every other aspect of His ministry flowed.
This same priority became evident in the life of the early Church. In Acts 6:2–4, the apostles refused to become distracted by administrative responsibilities because they understood that their primary calling was: “We will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” So they did not devote themselves to studying demons or analysing the enemy’s operations, but instead, they committed themselves to continual fellowship with the Father through prayer and His Word.
As a result of this practice, they experienced the same consistent success and triumph that Jesus Himself demonstrated. By seeking the King, hearing His voice, then obeying the Holy Spirit, and walking in His revealed will, they triumphed in every situation. This is precisely what the Holy Spirit desires every follower of Jesus to experience today.
As Jesus’s followers are called to devote ourselves to prayer, then listening carefully for the Lord’s direction, as we receive understanding, and then take the obedient action necessary. As we do so, the Holy Spirit brings the miraculous to completion, by glorifying the name and Kingdom of Jesus through our lives.
The Holy Spirit went on to remind us as followers of Jesus that it is our God-given right to know the mysteries of the Kingdom. So we have no excuse to remain ignorant of the Lord’s way of doing things or of the enemy’s deceptive strategies to lead us astray. Satan’s primary objective is to deceive us concerning truth and thus rob us of the knowledge of the Lord because ignorance always leaves us vulnerable to his schemes. This deception fulfils his mission described in John 10:10 which Jesus said is to steal, kill, and destroy.
In contrast, the Lord’s purpose for us is that “the knowledge of the glory of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea” (Habakkuk 2:14). As followers of Jesus we are therefore called to become so filled with the knowledge and manifestation of the Lord’s glory that the world sees His greatness through us rather than our human weakness, compromise, or failure. The Holy Spirit concluded this revelation by inviting us the followers of Jesus into a deeper passion for His presence and a greater pursuit of His workings.
As we diligently seek an increased understanding of the operations of the Holy Spirit, the Kingdom of Jesus will become increasingly more visible and tangible through our lives. The end result will be that we go on to fulfil our earthly assignment for the Lord by serving the purposes of Christ in our generation, through demonstrating His power, revealing His glory, and bringing honour to His Name through lives marked by continual victory and triumph.
In the mighty name of Jesus, I declare that the Spirit of wisdom and revelation will rest upon you in an increasing measure. May your spiritual eyes be enlightened to know the mysteries of the Kingdom that Jesus has already made available to you. I declare that every spirit of ignorance, deception, and distraction is broken off your life, and that you will pursue the Lord with renewed hunger through prayer, His Word, and greater intimate fellowship with the Holy Spirit.
May you receive divine understanding that transforms revelation knowledge into practical experience, by enabling you to walk in Kingdom authority and triumph over every work of the enemy. I declare that you will no longer live as one oppressed by circumstances but as one who exercises the authority Christ has entrusted to you on the earth.
May the knowledge of the glory of the Lord abound in your life until His power, wisdom, and presence are evident through everything you do. Let miracles, unusual wisdom, boldness, and obedience accompany your walk with the Holy Spirit so that the Kingdom of Jesus is increasingly revealed through your life for His glory. May you go forward to fulfil your God-given mission with victory, by bringing honour to the name of Jesus and expanding His Kingdom on the earth in Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.