Month: September 2026 (Page 1 of 3)

In my communion time with the Holy Spirit, He drew my attention to a phrase repeatedly used in the Book of Acts that is vital for us today, yet it often receives very little attention which are these words: “Being full of the Holy Spirit.”

We repeatedly read the story of how individuals such as Peter, Stephen, Paul, and Philip each being full of the Holy Spirit, and whenever this description accompanies their name and ministry, we see remarkable miracles, signs, and wonders taking place through them.

This reveals something very important that the message being spoken by them was not merely the product of the individual’s own thoughts, opinions, personality, or ministerial title. It was the Holy Spirit speaking through a vessel who had yielded himself to the Lord.

This fact makes an important distinction between the individual vessel and the Person of the Holy Spirit. The power and effectiveness when they were full of the Holy Spirit did not originate from the individual. This clearly points to the fact that what the vessel was carrying and expressing was exactly what the Holy Spirit was saying and doing.

Therefore, in this season, we must learn to recognize and listen for the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking through a vessel who is full of the Holy Spirit, rather than being persuaded merely by the title or position of the person speaking. A minister may carry the title of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor, or Teacher, but a title by itself cannot give life. What matters is whether the Holy Spirit is actually bearing witness through the vessel speaking.

There is a clear difference between someone speaking by the Holy Spirit and someone simply expressing their personal opinion. When Peter spoke under the influence and fullness of the Holy Spirit, there was a corresponding manifestation of the Lord’s power to confirm the word spoken. However when a person speaks merely from himself, there is no such guarantee of the manifestation of the Holy Spirit.

This is why we must be careful not to substitute the eloquent words of men for the voice of the Holy Spirit. Jesus made the distinction plainly in John.6:63 that: “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing.” Human words that originate merely from the flesh cannot produce what only the Spirit can produce.

Even if the speaker carries an apostolic, prophetic, evangelistic, pastoral, or teaching title, words originating from the flesh remain fleshly words and cannot accomplish the work of the Spirit. The emphasis, therefore, is not on the greatness of the individual speaking but on the fullness of the Holy Spirit within the vessel.

This is why we see the repeated descriptions in the book of Acts of these men: Peter full of the Holy Spirit, Stephen full of the Holy Spirit, Paul full of the Holy Spirit, and Philip full of the Holy Spirit which show us a pattern when the Holy Spirit is speaking. When people are filled with the Holy Spirit and yield themselves to Him, their words and actions become instruments through which the Lord makes Himself known.

The results are always miracles, signs, wonders, and a powerful witness accompanying the proclamation made because the Holy Spirit is actively working through the person. This is especially important for this present season if we are to experience the fullness of the Holy Spirit’s Outpouring.

We must stop allowing ourselves to be deceived or controlled by words that merely come from men that do not save or impart life. We must return to waiting for the voice of the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit gives life while the flesh profits nothing.

Being full of the Holy Spirit is therefore not presented as an optional spiritual experience that we may choose to pursue or ignore. The apostolic instruction to be filled with the Holy Spirit is a command and a necessary part for us to have if we are to fulfil the Lord’s purpose. We need to be full of the Holy Spirit so that the plan of the Lord can be accomplished through us and the Kingdom of Jesus can be established and manifested on the earth.

The challenge for today is therefore very simple and very serious saying that: before you begin speaking “thus saith the Lord,” make sure you are full of the Holy Spirit. Do not speak merely from your own understanding, opinion, emotion, experience, or religious position. Always allow the Holy Spirit to fill you first , then lead you, and bear witness through you. The goal of this spiritual protocol is not for people to hear the individual and merely admire the vessel.

The goal is for people to encounter the living God through what the Holy Spirit speaks and does through that surrendered vessel. When the Holy Spirit is truly speaking through us, He always gives witness to Jesus, brings life to those who hear, and demonstrates that the Lord is alive and actively working among His people just as He did with Jesus in Luke.4 when Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit and returned in the power of the Holy Spirit before He started preaching the Kingdom.

I declare that you are being filled afresh with the Holy Spirit and every voice of the flesh, human opinion, religious tradition, and empty words that have competed with the voice of the Holy Spirit are losing their influence over you. I declare that you will no longer speak merely from yourself, but you will learn to wait upon the Holy Spirit, to hear His voice clearly, and speak only what He gives you to speak.

The Holy Spirit will bear witness of Jesus through you and your words will carry life, grace, truth, and the testimony of Jesus. I declare that your life will become a yielded vessel through which the presence and power of the Lord is revealed. You will no longer be governed by titles, personalities, reputations, or the opinions of men, but by the living voice of the Holy Spirit.

As you remain full of the Spirit, the plan of the Lord will be accomplished through your life, and your obedience will contribute to the establishment and manifestation of the Kingdom of Jesus on the earth. May grace be abundantly multiplied to you to live continually full of the Holy Spirit and to speak only as He gives you utterance, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Precious Holy Spirit, I welcome You this morning. Thank You for continuing to remind me of the vast treasures of my inheritance in Jesus and teaching me how to access and walk in what You have already prepared for me. I recognize that this inheritance from is not a wage I have earned but it is a gift from my Father because I am His child. I thank you for letting me know that there are treasures stored up for me in the heavenly realm, and You are teaching me how to walk in the reality of them here and now.

Precious Holy Spirit, saturate me today with the knowledge and understanding of your truth until it is no longer merely information I have learned, but a living reality flowing from within me. Your Word says in 1 Corinthians 2:4–5 that our faith should not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. So I do not want to minister or live from myself but I want everything flowing through me to come from You.

Father, I receive the truth of Colossians 1:5—that faith and love are rising within me as I access the treasures of my inheritance stored up in heaven. I also receive 2 Peter 1:19–20, where the prophetic Word is described as a light shining in a dark place until the day dawns and the Morning Star rises in our hearts. So Holy Spirit, let Your Word shine increasingly brightly within me and take every truth I have received and drive it deeply into my heart so that all darkness disappears.

Please let Jesus become the dominant reality within me until His Word is established so deeply within me that what comes out of my mouth carries the life, faith, love, and power of Christ. Please let my life become an overflow of what You have deposited within me as You teach me how to steward faithfully what You have entrusted to me. Dearest Lord I recognize that spiritual access carries responsibility so I humbly ask You to guide me through the process so I lose out on nothing.

Please teach me the importance of the fact that what I do with the truth You give me matters because I want to stop claiming the promises carelessly while refusing the necessary, surrender, obedience and transformation required to walk in them. Please make my heart trustworthy as You search out my motives and intentions to enable You remove everything that causes me to leak what You have entrusted to me or make me dishonour Your name.

Holy Spirit, please correct me as the Father, gives me a heart that welcomes correction. Your Word says in Hebrews 12:5–11 that Your correction and discipline are part of Your dealings with Your children. So Holy Spirit, go ahead and correct me whenever I am wrong particularly where I have presumed on You instead of listened to You, correct me. In places where I have rushed ahead of You, instead of waited on You, please correct me.

Where I have interpreted Your voice according to my own desires, please correct me. Where I have misunderstood Your instructions, kindly correct me because I refuse to run ahead based on my assumptions about what I think You are saying. Please teach me how to stop, then listen, seek confirmation, and wait until I know Your direction clearly because I would rather wait for Your confirmation rather than rush ahead and end up in a ditch.

Today, I surrender my heart and mind completely to You and I receive the grace to take the next right step forward because I believe that the treasures of my inheritance are not merely theological ideas, but they are realities in the Spirit that You want me to learn how to access, steward, and manifest them for the glory of Jesus. So I let faith and love rise within me so that your Word becomes alive within me.

Let the Morning Star Jesus in glory arise in my heart and let the treasures You have prepared for me become increasingly evident through my life. Please Holy Spirit let everything You entrust to me be used faithfully by Your grace abounding towards me for Jesus’s glory and for the blessing of others.

Today I declare that I am being positioned by the Holy Spirit to access the treasures of my inheritance in Jesus because Truth is becoming deeply established in my heart through the Morning Star is rising within me. I declare that my faith and love are increasing which means that I will no longer remain at the surface level of truth because I will be saturated with the Word until it becomes an overflowing reality within me.

I on purpose receive Your correction without resistance and I will never again presume, rush, or run ahead of You Holy Spirit, but I will listen carefully, then confirm Your direction, and take the next right step. I thank You that You are causing me to walk in the necessary correction which is bringing me into greater alignment with the Lord’s purpose for my life.

Thank You Holy Spirit that I am becoming a trustworthy steward of what the Lord entrusts to me. I thank You that this is happening because the Holy Spirit is teaching me how to access and walk in the treasures of my inheritance in Christ and my life is increasingly becoming an overflow of His truth, grace, faith, love, and power.

I declare that I will both will and do what pleases the Lord as I will walk in the reality of what Jesus purchased and paid for me to experience. I declare that I will soar in the Holy Spirit, and my life results will glorify Jesus in Jesus’ name, Amen.

Come join me in the final revelation from the Holy Spirit from my communion time with the Holy Spirit on Accessing the Treasures of your Inheritance.

Matthew 26:36–38 records that Jesus took Peter, James, and John with Him and allowed them to witness something of His deep agony in prayer. This occurrence does not mean that Jesus arbitrarily loved one disciple more than another but rather, it illustrates that what each person does with the truth, and how each person responds to Jesus, affects what Jesus entrusts to that person.

There is therefore a responsibility attached to our spiritual access of the inheritance which we need to understand. No one is ever promoted unfairly because Jesus deals with each person according to their present walk, commitment, obedience, and stewardship of what He has already revealed to them. So we need to examine whether we are qualified to walk in what we claim we have in the Lord.

During one particular season of my walk with the Holy Spirit, He required me to spend considerable time studying the introductions to the letters written by the Apostles. The purpose was for me to examine and ascertain whether I was actually qualified to experience and walk in the truths contained in those letters rather than simply claiming every promise arbitrarily because it was written in the Bible.

Through that process, I began to recognize what actions I took based on the word that qualified me to partake of those particular truths and where I needed to take further action so that my heart would be properly prepared for more of the inheritance available to me. This reality brought a serious realisation in my walk with the Lord that: the Lord does not entrust His treasures to people who carelessly leak out truth to the enemy or fail to honour Him with what He has already given to them.

The Lord always examines the intent and purposes of the heart and responds to the decisions being made there. Therefore, the state of our inner posture matters greatly to advancement in the Kingdom. Our inheritance is not merely about what the Lord has prepared for us, but it is also about us becoming trustworthy stewards of what He chooses to place in our hands.

The Holy Spirit in this season is bringing these truths to us so that we can honestly assess our walk with the Lord and make whatever corrections are necessary to return to the right place in our relationship with Him so we can move forward into greater spheres of glory. Remember that correction is of utmost importance in the Kingdom of Jesus.

We should develop a willingness—even a desire—to be corrected continually by the Holy Spirit because we are human beings who usually make mistakes in hearing the Lord and in carrying out to the letter what He tells us to do. Hebrews 12:5–11 teaches us about the Father’s correction and discipline over His children. Correction is therefore not something we should resist or despise because it is part of the process by which the Lord trains and develops us.

Too often, we act on our own assumptions about what we think the Lord is saying rather than taking the necessary time to seek Him and confirm exactly what the Holy Spirit is really saying to us. It is always better to wait and confirm the direction of the Holy Spirit than to rush ahead on the assumption that we already know what He wants, only to discover that we have run ourselves into a ditch.

Our willingness to wait, listen, verify, and then obey the Lord protects us from unnecessary mistakes and positions us to receive the fullness of what the Lord has prepared for us to walk in. So just receive the correction and take the next right step the Holy Spirit is leading you to take. The purpose of this message is therefore not merely about hearing words to inform us about an inheritance we have to take but it reveals the steps to bring us into the practical reality of accessing the inheritance.

We are therefore encouraged to receive the truth, through welcoming the correction of the Holy Spirit, and allowing the grace contained in these words to lead us into the next right step. This is because as we make the necessary corrections, our lives become correctly positioned to access the treasures of our inheritance in the Lord and begin walking in the reality of what Jesus purchased and paid for us to experience.

The Holy Spirit wants us to soar in Him rather than remain at a surface level of a Christian experience. He wants truth to become so deeply established within us that it flows out of us as an overflow of His Presence, thus bringing life, grace, faith, and love to others.

Therefore, surrender your heart and mind completely to the Lord by allowing the Holy Spirit to search you, correct you, teach you, confirm His direction, and guide you into the right path. The Holy Spirit will provide you with the grace necessary for you both to will and to do what pleases the Lord.

I declare that you will not remain ignorant of the treasures of your inheritance in the Lord because the Holy Spirit is bringing revelation, correction, wisdom, and grace to position you rightly so that you may access and steward what Jesus has purchased for you.

May the truth become more deeply established in your heart until the Morning Star rises within you and the reality of Christ begins to shine through everything you say and do. May your faith and love rise from within you as the Holy Spirit brings the treasures of your inheritance into experiential reality so your life becomes a witness of the miraculous hand of the Lord on earth in Jesus name.

I declare that you will no longer run ahead presumptuously, nor will you remain stuck in a rut through disobedience or a resistance to correction. I declare that you will hear the Holy Spirit clearly, then wait for His confirmation, to enable you to take the next right step, and walk in the path He has prepared for you.

May every necessary correction you make bring you into greater alignment with the purpose of the Lord and may every treasure the Lord has appointed for your stewardship be accessed in His timing and be used for His glory. I declare that you are being positioned strategically to walk in the fullness of what Jesus purchased and paid for you to experience.

I declare that you will soar in the Holy Spirit, and your life will become an overflow of His truth, grace, faith, love, and power. May the Holy Spirit give you every grace required to surrender your heart and mind completely to the Lord, so that you are able both to will and to do for His good pleasure in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Today I am sharing part of my communion time with the Holy Spirit on Accessing the Treasures of My Inheritance.

This morning, during my communion time with the Holy Spirit, He emphasised the theme of our inheritance in the Lord and reinforced how important it is for us to understand and maximize the inheritance available to us in this present season.

From my previous experiences with the Holy Spirit on many important matters, I have learned that when we become completely saturated with truth and filled to overflowing with it, what comes out of us is no longer merely something we have studied or learned intellectually. It becomes an overflow and outpouring of the Holy Spirit from within us.

There is a vast difference between speaking from ourselves and ministering from what the Holy Spirit has deposited within us. When truth flows from the Holy Spirit, it brings life to the hearer and supplies grace for the hearer to believe, receive, and act upon that same truth. This is the reality reflected in 1 Corinthians 2:4–5.

In Colossians 1:5, Paul speaks of the faith and love of the believers rising within them as they access the treasures of their inheritance stored up in the heavenly realm. This points to something much deeper than merely knowing biblical truth on the surface. It speaks of truth becoming established within the heart until it produces an experiential reality.

The prophetic word becomes like a light shining in a dark place until the day dawns and the morning star rises in the heart. This connects with what Peter says in 2 Peter 1:19–20. As the Word continues to shine within the heart, it grows brighter and brighter until Jesus, the Morning Star, becomes the dominant reality within that person.

At that point, the Word is no longer merely something being repeated from our mouths from the outside. It has become an inward reality in our lives. It reveals that the truth has been established so deeply in the heart that when it is spoken, it carries the impact of Jesus speaking through the person. Faith and love rise together because the truth has become experiential, and the love of God has been shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Spirit.

As this transformation takes place in the heart, access is granted to the treasures of our inheritance stored up for us in the heavenly realm. This inheritance should not be understood as one isolated treasure, like a single expensive diamond or sapphire. The picture is of many precious treasures such as numerous diamonds and sapphires in the plural, already stored up and ready for dispatch to their rightful owners.

The issue is therefore not whether the Lord has made provision because the treasures have already been prepared and stored up. The question is whether we are walking in the kind of relationship with Jesus that enables us to access and steward what He has made available to us. This access is not presented as something to be claimed arbitrarily merely because a promise appears in the Bible.

It belongs to those who have taken Jesus seriously at His word, laid down their lives to serve Him, meditated upon His words, continually confessed what the Holy Spirit is saying, and walked in the light He has given them. The developing relationship between Jesus and His Apostles demonstrates this principle in action.

So although Jesus had twelve Apostles, not all twelve were taken onto the mountain of transfiguration. Peter, James, and John were the only ones permitted to accompany Jesus and witness that extraordinary event in Matthew 17:1–8. Likewise, these same three disciples were permitted to accompany Jesus more closely during His prayer time in the Garden of Gethsemane immediately before His death.

I declare that you will not remain ignorant of the treasures of your inheritance in the Lord because the Holy Spirit is bringing revelation, correction, wisdom, and grace to position you rightly so that you may access and steward what Jesus has purchased for you.

May the truth become more deeply established in your heart until the Morning Star rises within you and the reality of Christ begins to shine through everything you say and do. May your faith and love rise from within you as the Holy Spirit brings the treasures of your inheritance into experiential reality so your life becomes a witness of the miraculous hand of the Lord on earth in Jesus name. Amen.

Today I am sharing the conclusion to my communion time with the Holy Spirit which presents you the opportunity to revisit the promise of the Lord for your lives.

We therefore do not have to make every mistake he made ourselves because we have an example before us from which we can glean wisdom and understanding so that we can run our own race more effectively because we can revisit the promise the Lord has for our lives with courage and boldness because we have examples we can learn from to keep us centred on the pathway of the Lord for our lives.

This message today is an invitation for you to revisit the promise the Lord has for your life. So go ahead and receive the grace contained in these words for you and ask the Lord to show you where you have allowed relationships, attachments, or human influences to keep you bound in places from which the Lord had intended to deliver you years ago. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you anything that has become an obstruction to your progress. Then allow Him to deal with it in your heart.

This includes the plans and decisions you may have made because of people, including suggestions from men and ministers. Remember that not every plan that came through another person was necessarily the Lord’s plan for your life. The question should always be: What is the Holy Spirit saying to you now? On purpose take an honest inventory of the relationships you have established and hold dear and ask the Holy spirit for His view on them in your life.

Some relationships may be healthy and God-given, but there may also be some relationships that have become hindrances to you navigating forward into the Lord’s promise. Therefore, ask the Holy Spirit to examine these relationships and even reconsider your Church affiliations. There may be separations the Lord has been prompting you to make that you have been unwilling to contemplate. Remember that the purpose is not separation for separation’s sake.

The purpose of this separation is for you to become completely free to serve the Lord according to His will without fear in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of your life. We must be willing at all costs to follow the Lord’s direction even when it requires us to reconsider things we have become comfortable with or deeply attached to. The ultimate goal is to be in the bullseye of the will of God for your life.

This requires a willingness on my part to put everything down and follow the Lord fully. It means you being willing to surrender anything that competes with the Lord’s purpose. It also means refusing to allow self to remain in control while expecting the Lord to work around your preferences. We must deny ourselves because we cannot continue holding on to self and expect the Holy Spirit to simply endorse everything we have decided.

The Holy Spirit will not work with the version of ourselves that insists on remaining in control. He is working to transform us into who the Lord wants us to become and what He has separated us to become for His glory which is conformity to the image of Christ. The shift therefore begins with our surrender. So today, allow the grace contained in this message to empower you to make the necessary shift by returning to the promise through returning to the Lord’s pattern.

As I return to the voice of the Holy Spirit, release whatever He tells you to release and reconsider whatever He tells you to reconsider. Then separate from whatever He requires you to separate from and follow Him fully. The objective of this directive is not simply to possess a promise in theory but it is for you to become the person who is fully engaged with the Holy Spirit in the manifestation of the God-breathed promise.

May I receive abundant grace to do it God’s way, in Jesus’ name. Amen. Father, thank You for Your Word and for the grace to hear what You are saying. Holy Spirit, I surrender myself afresh to You. Please make me a true seeker of the Lord as a true faithful listener who waits to hear Your voice, understands Your instructions, and responds with prompt obedience.

Please show me anything in my life that is hindering my progress into the Lord’s promise. Reveal to me every relationship, attachment, plan, influence, commitment, or human suggestion that I have held on to when You have been asking me to release it.
Please give me courage to obey You even when obedience requires difficult separation or a change of direction. Search my heart and bring me into the bullseye of the Lord’s will for my life.

Deliver me from running cycles and circles of defeat because of my partial obedience and teach me how to walk fully in the pattern You have established for me. I choose to daily deny self and surrender my own way, so You can Make me into who the Lord wants me to be and separate me unto what He has called me to become for His glory.

Let the grace from Your Word empower me to make every necessary shift and bring me into full engagement with You so that the God-breathed promise for my life will be manifested according to Your purpose in Jesus’ name. Amen. I declare that I am a listener of the Lord and I will hear the voice of the Father, receive His Word, and respond with prompt obedience. I will not treat His instructions as insignificant, because I know that His Word carries creative power and gives life to what was dead.

I boldly follow after righteousness and seek the Lord with my whole heart as I look to Jesus, the Rock from which I have been hewn, and I remember the pit from which He brought me out because I will never forget what the Lord has done in my life. I receive the grace to learn from Abraham’s journey and I will not repeat the compromises that caused him unnecessary cycles and delays. I will recognize what the Lord is asking me to leave behind, and I will have the courage to obey it.

I declare that every relationship, attachment, plan, influence, or human instruction that is hindering the Lord’s purpose for my life will be brought into the light by the Holy Spirit. I will not hold on to what the Lord is asking me to release and I will not allow human relationships or human suggestions to become substitutes for divine direction. I surrender self by surrendering my own way. I surrender my preferences with every attachment that competes with the will of God.

I receive the grace to become who God wants me to become and to be separated unto what He has prepared for His glory. I declare that I am moving into the bullseye of the Lord’s will for my life and I will not remain in cycles and circles of defeat, desperation, or partial obedience. I am shifting into full alignment with the purpose of the Lord for me. I will fully engage with the Holy Spirit in the manifestation of the God-breathed promise for me.

I will hear, obey, separate, surrender, and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit and I will walk in the promise the Lord has prepared for me, and His purpose will be fulfilled in my life. By the grace of God, I declare that I will do it the Lord’s way. I will inherit the promise of the Lord and I will walk in the Lord’s prepared purpose as Jesus will be glorified through my life, in Jesus’ name. Amen!

This is Part Two of my communion time with the Holy Spirit to help us understand the importance of fully obeying the voice of the Lord without compromising any part of the word.

When the Holy Spirit led me to study Abraham’s complete journey again, I saw something very significant. I noticed that every time Abraham did not fully obey the Lord’s directive, there were consequences and difficulties that affected his progress. Abraham we are told left Ur of the Chaldeans, but unfortunately he brought Lot with him and Lot eventually became a stumbling block in his progress. This relationship hindered Abraham from moving forward fully in what the Lord had prepared for him.

The significance of this relationship becomes especially clear in Genesis.13:14-17 where we read these words: “And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: ‘Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—northward, southward, eastward, and westward; 15 for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever. 16 And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered. 17 Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.’”

Notice the timing in this revelation: “after Lot had separated from him.” So we see that once the separation took place, the Lord revealed the fuller picture of the promise to Abraham. Abraham from this time forward could now engage with the Lord in a different way because something that had been obstructing his progress had been removed. There is a serious lesson here we must learn that we cannot take everyone with us into the promise of the Lord for our lives.

There are relationships and attachments from which the Lord will require us to separate from, if we are going to move fully into what He has prepared for us. When Abraham eventually received Isaac, Lot was not a part of that promise. The lesson is not that every family relationship is wrong or that separation from people is automatically God’s will. Rather, the message is that we cannot carry into the Lord’s purpose everything and everyone He has instructed us to leave behind. Some relationships can become compromises and these attachments can keep us bound.

We must understand that some of the things we hold dear can prevent us from navigating forward into the promise with the Lord. The question therefore should always be: What has the Lord asked me to release from my life that I am still holding on to? As I revisited Abraham’s entire journey, I saw where he fell short of the promise and what his compromise with Lot cost him. I saw the process of getting him out of the pit into which that compromise had placed him, and then watched the process of restoration back toward the place the Lord intended him to be at the appointed time.

I understood that Abraham had not fully obeyed the instructions the Lord had given him, and how that lack of complete obedience affected his journey. The Holy Spirit reminded me that He was now speaking to me about the final conversation with Abraham as Abraham was now approaching the manifestation of the promise through the birth of Isaac. At this point, Abraham needed to be found blameless in his conduct so that he could walk this out completely with the Lord. He could no longer afford to walk loosely as he had done in previous seasons.

His earlier patterns of compromised obedience had caused him to run in cycles and circles of defeat, frustration, and desperation. This is a very salient lesson that we must adopt if we desire to inherit the promise of the Lord for our lives. We must remember that religious activity cannot be a substitute for obedience. Abraham built altars in his journey as he sought to hear the Lord. Yet there came a point where there was no further voice of the Lord coming to lead and direct him until he separated from what was holding him bound.

The issue was not that Abraham had no spiritual activity. The real issue was that something was obstructing his complete obedience and this is an important warning for us. We can be doing things that appear spiritual while still holding on to something the Lord has asked us to release and the answer is not merely to build another altar, pray another prayer, or engage in another religious activity. The answer is to obey what the Holy Spirit is saying to you to do.

The Father graciously points us to Abraham in Isaiah.51 so that we can learn from his journey and avoid the mistakes and pitfalls in his journey. Abraham thus becomes a prototype and an example for those who follow righteousness because His story gives us something concrete to consider and examine. We can learn from where he succeeded, keep protected from the places where he fell short, understand what his compromises cost him, what the Lord required him to release, and how he eventually returned to the place of alignment with the Lord’s purpose.

Father, thank You for Your Word and for the grace to hear what You are saying. Holy Spirit, I surrender myself afresh to You. Please make me a true seeker of the Lord as a true faithful listener who waits to hear Your voice, understands Your instructions, and responds with prompt obedience. Please show me anything in my life that is hindering my progress into the Lord’s promise. Reveal to me every relationship, attachment, plan, influence, commitment, or human suggestion that I have held on to when You have been asking me to release it.

Give me courage to obey You even when obedience requires difficult separation or a change of direction. Search my heart and bring me into the bullseye of the Lord’s will for my life. Deliver me from running cycles and circles of defeat because of my partial obedience and teach me how to walk fully in the pattern You have established for me. I choose to daily deny self and surrender my own way, so You can Make me into who the Lord wants me to be and separate me unto what He has called me to become for His glory.

I declare that every relationship, attachment, plan, influence, or human instruction that is hindering the Lord’s purpose for my life will be brought into the light by the Holy Spirit. I will not hold on to what the Lord is asking me to release and I will not allow human relationships or human suggestions to become substitutes for divine direction. I surrender self by surrendering my own way. I surrender my preferences with every attachment that competes with the will of God.

I receive grace to become who God wants me to become and to be separated unto what He has prepared for His glory. I declare that I am moving into the bullseye of the Lord’s will for my life and I will not remain in cycles and circles of defeat, desperation, or partial obedience. I am shifting into full alignment with the purpose of the Lord for me. I will fully engage with the Holy Spirit in the manifestation of the God-breathed promise for me in Jesus name. Amen.

Today I am sharing Part One Of a three part Communion time I had with the Holy Spirit.

This morning, during my communion time with the Holy Spirit, He led me into further insight concerning the truth of engaging with Him in order to manifest the God-breathed promise in our lives. The Lord wants us to understand in greater detail what He requires from us so that we can be fully engaged with Him in bringing His promises to manifestation in our lives.

The promise of the Lord is not something we passively wait for while continuing to live according to our own preferences, attachments, relationships, and plans. There is a part we must play in responding to the Holy Spirit. We must therefore listen, obey, separate ourselves from whatever hinders the Lord’s purpose, by denying self, to become fully aligned with His will. We must of necessity listen carefully to the Lord

The Father begins speaking in Isaiah.51:1 & 2 by saying: “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, You who seek the Lord: Look to the rock from which you were hewn, And to the hole of the pit from which you were dug. 2 Look to Abraham your father, And to Sarah who bore you; For I called him alone, And blessed him and increased him.”

Notice that whenever the Father speaks, He calls us to listen and pay close attention because what He is about to say is important and cannot afford to miss any part of His communication. The Lord never engages in meaningless or insignificant conversation. His words always carry creative power and what He speaks always create things that previously did not exist and gives life to things that were dead.

This is why every conversation with the Lord must be treated with the utmost reverence and respect because His Word is not ordinary information. It is our most valuable gift in life because His Word creates everything we could ever need for our life and godliness. Therefore, when the Lord speaks, our response should be one of careful listening and prompt obedience. The Father addresses those who follow after righteousness and seek the Lord.

As followers of Jesus, we are called to follow righteousness because Jesus loves righteousness and hates lawlessness and is the King of righteousness. Hebrews.1:8 & 9. We must remember that everything Jesus ever did flowed from righteousness. His actions always proceeded from a righteous heart. Peter made the same principle clear in the house of Cornelius when he said in Acts.10:34 & 35 that God is not a respecter of persons, but whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted.

This means that seeking the Lord cannot merely be a matter of speaking to Him about what we want. The true seeker of the Lord must become a listener, that is someone who waits to hear what the Lord is saying at any given moment. The true seeker understands whose voice needs to be heard, obeyed, and followed in order to have life. The Father then tells us to look to the Rock from which we were hewn. So we are to look to Jesus, our foundation who is the Author and Finisher of our faith.

We must observe carefully who our foundation is and recognize His authenticity. We should remember how He brought us out of the pit we were in, by transforming our perspective, and making us a new creation in Christ. We are also instructed to look to Abraham and Sarah as examples within the cloud of witnesses of those who inherited the God-breathed promise. The story of Abraham is particularly important because it demonstrates what the Lord can do with someone who appears to have nothing.

The Lord called Abraham alone and He separated him from what he knew and from what he held dear and invited him to follow Him into something Abraham could not fully understand naturally. Then the Lord supernaturally blessed Abraham, increased him, and multiplied him phenomenally. The Lord is showing us through Abraham’s life that what He did with Abraham is also a pattern of what He desires to do with us.

I declare that I am a listener of the Lord and I will hear the voice of the Father, receive His Word, and respond with prompt obedience. I will not treat His instructions as insignificant, because I know that His Word carries creative power and gives life to what was dead.

I boldly follow after righteousness and seek the Lord with my whole heart as I look to Jesus, the Rock from which I have been hewn, and I remember the pit from which He brought me out because I will never forget what the Lord has done in my life. I receive the grace to learn from Abraham’s journey and I will not repeat the compromises that caused him unnecessary cycles and delays. I will recognize what the Lord is asking me to leave behind, and I will have the courage to obey it in Jesus name. Amen.

This morning, as we fellowship together with the Holy Spirit, let us settle one question in our hearts concerning why are we concerned about whether the Lord will fulfil what He has said to us? Is the record of His faithfulness throughout Scripture not enough? Even beyond everything we have already seen the Lord do, Hebrews 6:17–20 assures us of the immutability of His counsel concerning us. The Lord does not change His mind because circumstances change and His Word does not become uncertain because opposition appears.

The Holy Spirit reminded me that Jesus often asked people, “Why do you take that thought saying?” pointing to the fact that Jesus always challenged thoughts that contradicted what the Father had said. Let’s look at Matthew 9:23–26. When Jesus entered Jairus’ house and said that the girl was not dead but sleeping, even though the people laughed Him to scorn. Jesus knew exactly what He was doing.

The question arises why did they laugh scornfully in a place where they were grieving? The reason was because they allowed what they could see naturally to contradict what Jesus had said. We as Jesus’s followers must be careful not to do the same thing when the Lord speaks things contrary to what we see in the natural. So even though Jesus had already demonstrated who He was through signs and wonders, yet people could still question Him when circumstances became difficult.

In Luke 4:14–15, when news about Jesus spread throughout the region, and He was glorified by all. However later, when Jesus declared that, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing” (Luke 4:21–22), familiarity caused people to question Him saying “Is this not Joseph’s son?” They had the evidence of Him performing miracles, yet they allowed familiarity to speak louder than the truth.

Amazingly their response became so hostile that Luke 4:28–30 tells us they tried to throw Jesus over a cliff. This incident shows us just how dangerous it is to allow deception to replace truth. We must guard our hearts with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life. The disciples themselves experienced this struggle where Jesus spoke opposite to what present circumstances were saying. In Mark 4:38–41, when the storm arose, they cried to Jesus: “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”

Jesus calmed the storm and then asked them the question: “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?” They also had seen Jesus’ power, yet fear made them question His care. This is why we must never allow circumstances to dictate what we believe about Jesus. John 8:32 says these words: “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

We must always remember that the truth does not change because the situation looks hopeless. Jesus does not become less faithful because the storm becomes stronger. His counsel remains immutable. His Word remains true and His character remains unchanged. Therefore, 1 Corinthians 15:58 calls us to be: “Steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that our labour in the Lord is not in vain.”

So today, make a fresh quality decision to become steadfast and immovable in the truth. Refuse to allow negative reports, criticism, fear, deception, or circumstances to govern your belief system. Do not let another voice make you question what the Lord has already spoken. Instead, receive the instruction of Philippians 2:5 which reads these words: “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.”

Let the mind of Christ govern how you interpret your circumstances by letting the Holy Spirit lead your thoughts. So the truth will have the final word in your life. Whenever something appears impossible, remember the fact that Jesus has not changed and the Lord has not failed you because His counsel concerning you remains immutable. So today, I choose to believe what the Lord has said.

I choose truth over deception, I choose faith over fear and I choose the Word of the Lord over every contrary report. I purposefully choose the mind of Christ over every thought that contradicts Him. Holy Spirit, help me today to recognize every thought that does not agree with the truth and keep my heart steadfast and my mind anchored in what Jesus has said.

Deliver me from allowing circumstances, criticism, fear, or deception to redefine my confidence in the Lord’s ability. Teach me to remain immovable when everything around me appears contrary. I let the mind of Christ govern my thoughts, my decisions, my responses, and my actions. I surrender my thought life to you today Holy Spirit and I choose to believe Jesus, to trust His Word, and walk in the path You have prepared for me.

I declare that I am steadfast and immovable in the truth and I will not be governed by negative thoughts, contrary reports, fear, criticism, or deception because I believe what the Lord has spoken concerning me. Jesus is faithful and His counsel concerning me is immutable. So His Word will not fail because I receive the mind of Christ, and I walk under the leadership of the Holy Spirit.

I will never abandon the Lord’s Word concerning me because circumstances appear contrary to His word and I will not allow the voice of opposition to become louder than the voice of the Lord in my life. I remain aligned with the Lord, steadfast in faith, and immovable in truth.

I declare that every obstacle before me must bow to the purposes of the Lord for my life. I choose to believe in Jesus, and therefore I step forward into the triumph He has already prepared for me. What God has spoken shall be fulfilled for His glory. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

A clarion call to stay in the Truth Lane.

In my communion time with the Holy Spirit, He reminded me of how Jesus taught His disciples to approach the enemy. Jesus never taught them to live in fear of what satan could do but instead, He emphasized what the Lord would do to protect them and keep them from the works of the devil. Jesus’ greatest concern was that His disciples would not be deceived.

In Luke 21:7–9, when the disciples asked Jesus about the signs of the end, He first warned them to: “Take heed that you will not be deceived.” This statement shows us that guarding our hearts against deception is more important than becoming preoccupied with the activities of the enemy. Many voices will arise, but our responsibility is to remain steadfast in the truth.

The Holy Spirit then took me to Jeremiah 17:9–10, which says these words: “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind…” Therefore because the heart can be deceived, we cannot depend solely upon ourselves to remain in the truth. So we desperately need the Holy Spirit continually guiding us into all truth.

Genesis 3:1–5 shows us how deception entered the earth through a voice that contradicted what the Lord had said. satan’s strategy was not merely force, but it was the deception he used that caused man to believe a lie and act against Lord’s command. The Holy Spirit reminded me of the time when He spoke to me concerning the fact that I needed to repent of all the wrong desires I had carried from childhood.

From that experience I understood that the enemy would attempt to bring the fulfilment of those desires at a strategic moment in my walk with the Lord to lure me away from the Lord’s purpose. Soon after that conviction from the Holy Spirit, someone connected to one of those old desires contacted me with an opportunity that could have drawn me back into what the Lord had delivered me from.

Because the Holy Spirit had already warned me through the word of dealing with past desires coming to fulfilment, I recognized the danger and refused to engage with it. That experience taught me a true fact of life that not everything we desire is something the Lord wants us to receive. A fulfilled desire can become a trap if it takes us outside the Lord’s purpose for our lives. This is why we must remain humble and dependent upon the Holy Spirit.

Jude 24 reminds us that the Lord is able to keep us from falling, and 1 Peter 1:9 points us toward the fact that the salvation of our souls is the end of our faith, which reveals the fact that the complete transformation of our inner life which involves our mind, will, intellect, and emotions must come increasingly into total alignment with the mind of Jesus.

I have made a quality decision to remain faithful in this work of salvation, by continually surrendering to the Holy Spirit and allowing Him to guide me into all truth. So today, guard your hearts and don’t let fear of the enemy become greater than your confidence in what Jesus has accomplished on your behalf.

Do not allow under any circumstance an old desire, an attractive opportunity, or a persuasive voice to move you outside the truth. Stay rooted in the truth lane by letting the Holy Spirit search your heart, to expose all deception, then correct your inordinate desires, and guide you into the path the Lord has prepared for you.

I declare that your heart is steadfast in truth and every deception seeking to divert you from the Lord’s purpose is exposed and loses its influence over you in Jesus name. I declare that you will not exchange the Lord’s plan for any temporary satisfaction because the Holy Spirit is guiding you into all truth and preserving you from every hidden trap of the enemy.

I declare that you will walk in the truth that makes you free. So deception will not abort the Lord’s purpose for your life and you will walk in the pleasantness, peace, and rich fulfilment Jesus has ordained for you, and your life will glorify His name in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Today I am sharing Part Two of my communion time with the Holy Spirit on seeing beyond the plain and beyond the mountain into the place Jesus has ordained for you to walk in this new season.

Once the Lord is guiding us we must always look beyond what natural circumstances say can happen, by looking beyond the mountain of impossibility into the reality that the Holy Spirit is pointing us toward.

There are greater things prepared by the Lord that have not yet entered our human imagination, but the Holy Spirit is revealing them because the appointed time for their manifestation is fast approaching. So we must not allow the voice of doubt, unbelief, human reasoning, or opposition to redefine what the Lord has spoken.

The enemy may raise obstacles and voices insisting that what the Lord has declared will never happen. But Psalm 2:4 reminds us of the Lord’s response to those who oppose His purposes: He who sits in heaven is not intimidated by human opposition but He just laughs them to scorn.

Therefore, do not be moved by any voice that contradicts “thus saith the Lord, but instead, just agree with the Holy Spirit, by aligning yourself with the truth. Vehemently resist the lie of the devil that says the promise is impossible and stand confidently upon what the Lord has spoken and prepare yourself to participate in the history He is creating through your life.

This is the Season of the Miraculous and the Holy Spirit is calling us to recognize that we are entering a season in which the impossible will become reality. There will be moments when we look at what has happened and say: “Look what the Lord has done! It is marvellous in our eyes.”

What the Lord has prepared will exceed everything we previously imagined possible and the appropriate response is not unbelief but agreement, faith, obedience, and expectation of it happening in your life.

The Holy Spirit is asking us to incubate His word within our lives which involves us receiving it, then holding onto it, by meditating upon it, believing it, and aligning your lives with it until the appointed time when it produces its fruit for all to see the work of the Lord.

Remember that the promise is not being sustained by your ability because the Lord who spoke it is responsible for bringing it forth. Your responsibility is to cooperate with Him rather than allowing doubt and unbelief to abort our participation in what He has prepared.

So receive these words with your whole heart, and do not allow contradictory circumstances to make you surrender the promise. Never allow the opinions of men to become greater than the word of the Lord in your heart and never allow the enemy’s voice to persuade you that what the Lord has spoken cannot happen.

Look beyond the mountain into the place Jesus has ordained for you, and believe that what the Holy Spirit has prepared for you will be brought forth at the appointed time, because the Lord will never bring to the place of birth and then fail to deliver (Isaiah 66:9).

I declare over you today that Your eyes are being lifted beyond the plain and beyond every mountain of limitation into the realities that the Holy Spirit has prepared for you. The things that have never entered your imagination are being revealed to you by the Spirit of God and the vision concerning your life will speak at its appointed time and it will not lie (Habakkuk 2:3).

I declare that every voice of doubt and unbelief contradicting the word of the Lord is silenced in your heart and you will not be governed by what men say is possible or impossible. You will only agree with the Holy Spirit and say, “Be it unto me according to Your word” (Luke 1:38).

You will not abort what the Lord has ordained for your life and you will not stop at the mountain because you will never turn back because of opposition. You will see the impossible become possible by the mighty power of the Lord and what the Lord has prepared for you will come forth in its appointed season.

You will experience what “eye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor has entered into the heart of man” (1 Corinthians 2:9). As you will behold the manifestation of the Lord’s purpose for your life, and your testimony will be: “Look what the Lord has done! It is marvellous in our eyes in Jesus name. Amen!”

The Holy Spirit will empower you to receive, incubate, nurture, and bring forth the fruit He has ordained for you in this season and you will become a participant in the miraculous purposes of the Lord and a testimony of His faithfulness before men.

Remember that nothing shall be impossible with the Lord. So you will see the word of the Lord fulfilled in your life, with nothing missing and nothing broken, for the glory of Jesus in Jesus’ name. Amen.