Today the Holy Spirit brought to my remembrance what His role in our life is and how we can benefit more fully from everything He has made available to us. If we only knew how best to cooperate with Him and allow ourselves the opportunity to experience the glory He sets before us daily.

Let’s look today at the words Jesus spoke about the person of the Holy Spirit and His specific role towards us in John.16:12-15 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. 14 He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. 15 All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.

Firstly there is much more Jesus needs us to know about the working out of truth in our lives. So no matter how much truth we have we must remain humble students of the truth. We should always be pursuing further truth and understanding its operation in and through our lives.

The Holy Spirit is the determiner of when we need further illumination of truth, so we need to be available to Him and sensitive to His guidance and direction. In Acts.13:2 As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

In this passage we see that it is these men who make the choice to take time to minister to the Lord. We are not told on this particular occasion that the Holy Spirit led them to take this time out. However they were motivated to take time to just minister to the Lord and added in fasting with it.

We are kings and priests unto our God so taking time to minister to Him is part of the office of a priest. We should therefore make it a practice to take time out just to minister to the Lord.

The results in this event of taking time out were astonishing because the Holy Spirit speaks a new direction which separates Paul and Barnabas from their role in the Church setting to a higher role the Holy Spirit has called them to accomplish.

This new role will involve the power of the Holy Spirit working miraculously in their lives going forward outside the confines of Church circles and reaching out into the spheres of human life. Addressing people in their work environments and influencing the wider community which they then begin to do as they begin reaching out further.

What we just witnessed here is a guidance by the Holy Spirit of Paul and Barnabas into a greater truth of the mission God had appointed them to accomplish on His behalf that would expand the reach of the Kingdom of Jesus.

Their new role would influence far more people than they had seen or experienced before with astounding results marked by great miracles, signs and wonders. These signs attested to the fact that they had obeyed the truth by moving forward with the Holy Spirit and thus brought the manifestation of the Kingdom into the government of the day.

The Holy Spirit spoke on the authority of what Jesus had said to Paul before about reaching out to the Gentiles and bearing His name before Kings. This was never going to happen with Paul being stuck in church every week ministering to the same believers and the people they invited to church.

The time had come for a shift in direction so Paul and Barnabas had to be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit as they made time to minister to the Lord. I will encourage you to make time to minister to the Lord and watch how things will change in your life and circumstances.

The Holy Spirit also in this passage goes on to reveal the events of the future concerning the life of Paul and Barnabas which were going to change drastically in all aspects including where they will now live because they needed to move away from Antioch to different regions and be on the move rather than in a single environment in there personal houses.

They were literally going to need to live out of suitcases in order to reach the sphere God was directing them to take, now without the church support. Their new provision would come from the Holy Spirit’ guidance who takes over their affairs as their Boss.

Once the Holy Spirit takes over as their boss things dramatically change and a new authority now operates in their lives. With new sources of provision and ways of obtaining it become available which they had never previously experienced.

All this by the powerful hand of the Lord who sent them out and was certainly not going to leave them as orphans out there to perish, but make every provision they needed to come to them to fulfill the vision.

Just look from Acts13 onwards and watch the record of the life of Paul and Barnabas from then on. What Paul goes on to manifest of the power of Jesus is startling in its magnitude and is a reminder to us of how obedience to the Holy Spirit’s leading and guidance does in the life of a follower and disciple of Jesus.

I pray today that as you hear these words the Holy Spirit will open your eyes to these truths and grace will be imparted to you wherever you are in your relationship with Jesus. Go on to be propelled into His plan for your life.

Then allow the Holy Spirit to move you back into place and alignment to where you are to be positioned at this time. So that the Holy Spirit can move you back into the centre of the will of Jesus for you presently.

I pray the Holy Spirit enables you to recover your lost years and bring you to the place of glory He ordained for you to walk in. Only be ready to follow whatever the asks you to do and watch the changes that will happen in you in Jesus name. Amen.