This word today centres on a searching and transformative question from the Holy Spirit in my communion time about whose advice are you filling your heart with?

Is it the counsel of your parents, your pastors, your spouse, your boss, your family members, your own opinions, or the prevailing consensus of others around you?

The Holy Spirit emphasized that the advice we consistently receive and internalize as important always determines the path we ultimately walk in life.

The Holy Spirit urges us to take an honest stock, a critical look at what fills our hearts because the voices we value the most shape our decisions and direct our forward movement. What thoughts are we repeatedly musing on and “chewing over” daily? Whose will are we carrying out through the meditations we entertain?

The Holy Spirit revealed that many followers of Jesus are meditating more on their current circumstances and events rather than on what the Lord has spoken concerning their lives. As a result, their hearts are becoming filled with negative interpretations of doom and gloom rather than the Lord’s opinion of them.

The Holy Spirit challenges us to consider facts as to what real authority do people’s words hold over your destiny? In practical terms, what bearing really do their opinions truly have over you?

If Jesus had yielded to the voices of the crowd, His family, or the Jewish leaders, whose counsel always opposed the Lord’s will and favoured their own agendas. He would never have fulfilled the Father’s plan for His life. Their advice was always contrary to God’s purpose for Jesus.

Therefore, the Holy Spirit instructs us to intentionally make more time to fill our hearts with His words and deliberately starve our hearts of excessive human opinions and negative thoughts. This stance requires increasing our confession of what the Lord has spoken so that His truth overrides all the negative words and “vibes” constantly seeking our attention and agreement.

The Holy Spirit released a serious warning accompanying this instruction that we must watch what we comment on with our mouths because many foolish commitments are made through idle words spoken in reaction to situations that lack true biblical foundation.

The Holy Spirit reminded me that Jesus often refused to answer questions designed to trap Him. He would not “bite” at provocations that could harm His mission. Likewise, we must exercise more restraint by refusing to engage in conversations or commentary that entangle us or derail our path from the truth.

Victory and triumph only comes from filling our hearts with what the Father says and walking in that revealed reality. We must stop relying on others’ opinions about us and instead trust the voice of the Holy Spirit as the final authority in our lives.

I close this word with gratitude for the Holy Spirit’s continual guidance into truth that produces freedom and liberty. Remember that receiving His daily instruction is not optional but it is an absolute necessity to remain in the positive flow of life.

As followers of Jesus I urge you to press in intentionally, by continuously confessing Jesus’ words over your lives, thus allowing your hearts to be saturated with the life His Word brings. As this becomes your daily, non-negotiable routine, noticeable transformation will follow.

Finally, as your hearts are aligned in perfect union with the Holy Spirit’s voice, As His followers I exhort you to step out in obedience, by manifesting the power of the Most High through acts of deliverance, freedom, signs, wonders, and miracles in your sphere of influence to expand the Kingdom of Jesus.

I declare in the Name of Jesus that every competing voice seeking to infiltrate your heart loses its influence over your heart and the counsel of the Holy Spirit will be the final authority in your life. All negative words and opinions will no longer shape your decisions or define your identity in the name of Jesus.

I declare that you will guard your mouth from engaging in idle speech and walk purposefully in wisdom and restraint. I decree that as you fill your heart daily with the words of Christ, you will experience total freedom, clarity, and victory.

Then as you obey the leading of the Holy Spirit, you will manifest the power of the Most High by bringing deliverance, freedom, through signs, wonders, and miracles into your sphere in Jesus’ Name. Amen.