The message is a profound revelation from the Holy Spirit about learning to view Scripture from the Lord’s perspective rather than through the limitations of human reasoning. During communion time, the Holy Spirit revealed that even after years of walking with God and learning truth, there is still so much more to understand about how truth is correctly applied in daily life. Referencing Isaiah 40:13-14, the message highlights the vastness of God’s wisdom and the humility required to continually learn from Him.

The Holy Spirit then brought my attention to Proverbs 17:13 which reads these words: “The one who returns evil for good can expect to be treated the same way for the rest of his life.” While this verse appears straightforward, the Holy Spirit challenged the me to look at the scripture from another angle by asking a question rarely considered: So what happens to the person who returns good for evil done against them? This fresh perspective opened a deeper understanding of the Lord’s nature and the calling of us as Jesus’s followers.

The message explains that many people experience evil treatment despite showing kindness, love, and goodness to others. Human reasoning naturally asks the question whether such treatment will become the follower of Jesus’s lifelong reward. However, the Holy Spirit immediately pointed me to Romans 12:21 which says: “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”

The revelation the Holy Spirit is emphasising is that we as followers of Jesus must never allow evil actions directed toward us to transform or change our own nature or response to people. Instead, we must remember that we are called to conquer evil through steadfast goodness.

The Holy Spirit emphasised the importance of always asking “the opposite question” when studying Scripture so that truth is not understood only partially. Failure to do so can leave us with a distorted understanding of truth and vulnerable to deception or exploitation through ignorance. This deeper approach to truth protects us from reacting carnally or emotionally when confronted with injustice or mistreatment.

Jesus Himself was presented as the perfect example. Acts 10:38 declares that Jesus went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil because God was with Him. Yet despite His goodness, compassion, miracles, and healing ministry, many people still opposed Him bitterly, rejected Him, and plotted evil against Him.

The message notes the fact that not everyone in Israel responded in faith to Jesus’ goodness, but this attitude in people never altered Jesus’s character or caused Him to stop doing good. Even in the face of betrayal, persecution, and hatred, Jesus never responded with evil or allowed the actions of others to change His divine nature. John 11:53-54 shows that although people sought to kill Him, Jesus remained steadfast in His mission and character to ensure He pleased the Father.

The Holy Spirit then applied this truth to us Jesus’s followers, by reminding us that as disciples of Jesus we are also anointed by the Holy Spirit to do good and not evil. The real test of spiritual maturity is whether as Jesus’s witnesses will maintain the Lord’s nature when confronted by the evil behaviour of others.

The enemy is always seeking ways to provoke us into responding with bitterness, retaliation, offence, or compromise so that we end up abandoning the character of Christ in situations and rather adopt satan’s nature instead. This becomes the battlefield where true loyalty to the Lord’s will is tested. The Apostle Paul was given as another example of this spiritual resilience. Where in Acts 20:24, Paul declared that none of the threats, persecutions, or evil actions of men could move him from fulfilling the Lord’s purpose.

Paul understood that his identity as a servant of God could not be altered by human opposition. He refused to allow evil circumstances to corrupt the nature of Christ within him. The message also calls for us followers of Jesus to develop this same steadfastness and spiritual strength in our own walk with the Lord.

The ultimate goal of this message is to exhort followers of Jesus not to allow the evil of the present age to rob them of God’s best for our lives. Instead, we are encouraged to remain faithful to the goodness of the Lord operating within us, by trusting that goodness keeps us connected to the Lord’s protection, presence, and favour surrounding our lives.

So yielding to evil in order to fight evil only disconnects us from the life and covering of the Lord. Therefore, as followers of Jesus we must rely on the grace of God to continue doing good regardless of the opposition, knowing that the Lord’s goodness flowing through us will ultimately bring victory, confusion to the enemy, and greater dimensions of spiritual glory.

The message concludes with a call for us as followers of Jesus to spend our lives destroying yokes, lifting off burdens, and helping those oppressed by the devil while advancing the Kingdom of Jesus on the earth.

In the name of Jesus let the Holy Spirit open your eyes to deeper dimensions of truth and grant you wisdom to see beyond your limited human reasoning into the mind and heart of the Lord. May every scheme of evil sent to provoke you into actions of bitterness, offence, retaliation, and compromise fail concerning you in Jesus’ Name. May the goodness of the Lord remain firmly established within you so that no action of men or attack of the enemy can alter the character of Christ from operating through your life.

I declare that as you overcome evil with good, may the Lord strengthen you with unwavering spiritual endurance, by surrounding you with His protection, and elevating you into greater realms of glory and triumph. I decree that your life will continually reflect the compassion, goodness, and power of Jesus as you destroy yokes, remove burdens, and advance His Kingdom here on the earth through the grace of the Holy Spirit, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.