The central point of this revelation from the Lord is that the Holy Spirit has been given to us by the Father to guide us into the fullness of the Lord’s truth, purpose, provision, and glory to operate in our lives.

We must purposefully learn to cooperate with Him by remaining humble, available, sensitive, and obedient to His leading because the more deliberately we yield to His direction, the more fully we will experience what the Lord has prepared for our lives. The Holy Spirit’s primary role is to guide us into all Truth.

This message begins with a clear reminder of Jesus’ teaching concerning the specific ministry of the Holy Spirit in John 16:12–15 where Jesus explained that there were still many things His disciples needed to know but that they could not yet bear them.

However, when the Spirit of truth came, He would guide them into all truth, by speaking what He heard from Jesus, by revealing things to come, thus glorifying Jesus, and taking what belongs to Christ and declaring it to His followers. Since everything the Father has belongs to Jesus, the Holy Spirit makes the riches and realities of Christ known to us. This means that no matter how much truth we already have received, we must never become satisfied with our present level of understanding.

We are to remain humble students of the truth, by continually pursuing greater illumination and learning how the Lord’s truth is intended to operate in and through our lives. The Holy Spirit determines when further illumination is needed, so our responsibility is to remain available and sensitive to His guidance because He knows what we need to understand next and when we are ready to receive it.

Our deliberate decision to minister to the Lord creates room for Him to reveal our new direction. A powerful example is found in Acts 13:2 which reads these words:“ Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” This passage describes Paul, Barnabas, and others ministering to the Lord and fasting.

Significantly, the passage does not say that the Holy Spirit initially instructed them to set aside time that day. They themselves chose to minister to the Lord and added fasting to their devotion. This event reveals an important spiritual practice of the fact that we are kings and priests unto the Lord, and because of this reality ministering to the Lord is part of our priestly responsibility.

Therefore, we should deliberately establish times when we withdraw from other activities simply to minister to the Lord. The result of Paul and Barnabas taking this time was astonishing because it was while they ministered to the Lord, that the Holy Spirit spoke a new direction for their lives. They were separated from their familiar role within the local church and commissioned into a greater assignment by the Holy Spirit.

Their ministry was about to expand beyond the boundaries of their established church environment and reach much broader spheres of human life with the message of the Kingdom. The Holy Spirit was moving them into places where they would influence communities, workplaces, governments, and people far beyond the believers they had previously ministered to.

The Holy Spirit always leads us into greater dimensions of the Lord’s assignment for our lives. What happened in Acts 13 demonstrates the Holy Spirit guiding Paul and Barnabas into a greater understanding of the mission the Lord had appointed to them and reveals how their obedience to His leading would expand the reach of the Kingdom of Jesus.

The new assignment would expose them to vastly greater numbers of people and would be accompanied by remarkable miracles, signs, and wonders. These supernatural manifestations would testify that they had obeyed the truth and moved forward with the Holy Spirit.

The Kingdom would consequently begin to affect spheres of influence beyond the church, even reaching into the governmental and public life of the world around them. The Holy Spirit was acting upon what Jesus had already spoken concerning Paul’s calling to reach the Gentiles and bear His name before kings.

That assignment could never have been fulfilled if Paul had remained permanently within the familiar environment of church ministry, continually ministering to the same believers and the people they brought into the church week after week.

I declare that your eyes are being opened to the ministry and leadership of the Holy Spirit. You will no longer remain stagnant in an old understanding when the Spirit of truth is calling you into greater revelation. You receive grace to remain a humble student of the truth, by continually learning, discerning, and understanding the things of the Lord.

I declare that you will make room to minister to the Lord, and as you seek Him, the Holy Spirit will speak clearly to you concerning your next assignment, your present positioning, and the things to come. You will recognise every divine shift in your life and you will not resist the transition into the greater purpose of the Lord for your life.

I declare that the Holy Spirit is bringing you back into alignment with the centre of Jesus’ will for you as every misplaced step is being corrected, every lost opportunity is being redeemed according to the Lord’s purpose, and your lost years are being recovered by the grace of God in Jesus name. Amen.