Today I am sharing the first part of my communion time with the Holy Spirit on positioning ourselves to walk in the Lord’s ordained miraculous path for our lives.

The Holy Spirit asks us a searching question each morning about What do we long for most each day, and how are we positioning ourselves to receive that desire? There is something the Holy Spirit has available for us in every moment of each day, but the question is whether we are willing to surrender ourselves so completely that He can have reign and rule in our lives.

The Lord has already prepared works, pathways, and purposes for us to walk in. Ephesians 2:10 reminds us that we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works that the Lord prepared beforehand for us to walk in. Therefore, our daily responsibility is not merely to determine what we want to accomplish but to position ourselves to discover what the Holy Spirit has prepared for us for that particular day.

During my communion time with the Holy Spirit, my attention was drawn to Proverbs 8:34 which reads these words: “If you wait at wisdom’s doorway, longing to hear a word for every day, joy will break forth within you as you listen for what I’ll say.” This Scripture has been used by the Holy Spirit over the years to communicate profound truth and provide practical guidance to me for navigating life. Through the grace supplied in the Lord’s promises, there have been pathways created out of troubled waters and difficult situations that ultimately led to safe endings and places of triumph.

However today the Holy Spirit is emphasising something fresh again that we must be willing to wait at wisdom’s door every morning, longing with zeal, passion, and earnest expectation for what He wants to say concerning today. This passion for wisdom cannot become a casual spiritual routine for us but it must become a deep intimate hunger for knowing the Lord. The Holy Spirit I have recognised over the years continually seeks to increase our passion for Jesus. This is reflected in Jesus’ Own zeal for His Father’s house recorded in John 2:17 Which reads these words: “Zeal for the Father’s House has consumed Me.”

The question therefore is not merely whether we were passionate for the Lord yesterday. The question for today is: How desperate are we for what Lord has in store for us today? Yesterday may have been wonderful and yesterday may have contained extraordinary victories, breakthroughs, revelations, or triumphs. However yesterday is gone and the Kingdom of the Lord always has more available for today. We must not become so satisfied with yesterday’s triumphs that we lose our hunger for today’s provision.

We must continue longing with all our hearts for what the Holy Spirit has placed on today’s spiritual menu. This is the burning passion the Lord desires from us which is a continual hunger for more of Him and for what He is planning to reveal for today. Remember that there is always more available in the Kingdom. John 5:20-21 reveals the Father’s heart concerning the greater works to come: “For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel.”

The Father was not withholding His best from Jesus but because of His love for the Son, He showed Him what He was doing and promised to show Him greater works so that people would marvel. This reveals something about the Father’s heart which is that He desires to lavish His goodness and His works upon His Son for people to see and marvel. The reality is that what the Father desired for Jesus is also exactly what Jesus desires His followers to experience. John 17:22-26 reveals Jesus’ desire for His followers to share in the glory, love, presence, and union He has with the Father.

Jesus wants His people to experience the reality of His life in them and for us to know the Father’s love. Therefore, our response should be a wholehearted yes to the Lord: by saying these words “Lord, I want to experience everything You have in store for me. I long with earnest expectation for the more You have prepared for me, so give me more grace to go deeper with You so that I can experience all that You have.” This is not greed for earthly things but it is spiritual hunger for the fullness of what Lord has prepared for us to experience here on earth.

The Holy Spirit then intensified the conversation by pointing to Habakkuk 2:1 which reads these words: “I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart, And watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will answer when I am corrected.” This passage reveals the importance of our spiritual positioning. Habakkuk deliberately placed himself in a position to hear from the Lord and stood watch because he was confident that the Lord would speak to him. He positioned himself on the rampart and watched for what the Lord would say, but he also recognised the fact that the Lord’s response would include correction.

Our positioning before the Lord is crucial because it affects what we are able to hear from Him. We cannot approach the Lord while stubbornly protecting everything we already believe and expect to hear clearly. We must clear our hearts and souls of whatever could hinder our ability to hear the voice of the Lord in the now. We must deliberately position ourselves each day to listen for what He is speaking concerning today so we can correct ourselves. We must also be spiritually alert and ready to observe what the Lord has placed before us without allowing guilt, shame, sin, or other spiritual impediments to obstruct His voice.

We must be certain of the fact that true, heartfelt repentance is therefore of primary importance in our lives because repentance always reconnects us to the Lord. If we refuse to deal honestly with what the Holy Spirit is confronting in us, our spiritual hearing becomes compromised because our hearts are polluted and compromised by a lack of confidence leading to doubt and unbelief. We must always remember that the Holy Spirit is not merely a Comforter who tells us what we want to hear but He is also the Corrector of false things in our lives.

Habakkuk understood that the important question was not merely, “What will God say?” but also, “What will I answer when I am corrected?” This is because our response to correction determines our forward progression into greater works of the Lord. So when the Holy Spirit reveals something false, unhealthy, sinful, immature, or distorted in us, what do we do? Do we make excuses for our behaviour? Or Do we deny the facts of truth He is showing us? Or Do we defend ourselves rather than surrender to the necessary correction before us? Or Do we just dismiss the “small things” that repeatedly beset us without considering what they are doing to our character?

I declare that I will wait at wisdom’s doorway every morning with hunger, zeal, passion, and earnest expectation for what the Holy Spirit wants to say to me concerning today. I will not live merely from yesterday’s victories, yesterday’s revelations, or yesterday’s experiences. I receive grace to hunger for the fresh word, fresh wisdom, fresh direction, and fresh grace that the Holy Spirit has prepared for me each day.

I declare that I am the Lord’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works that He has prepared for me to walk in (Ephesians 2:10). So I will position myself to recognise and walk in those good works through fellowship with the Holy Spirit. I declare that my heart is open to correction and I will not make excuses for what the Holy Spirit exposes. I will not deny truth, and I will not stubbornly defend my preconceived ideas. I will not allow guilt, shame, sin, pride, or wrong thinking to hinder my spiritual hearing.

I receive grace for genuine repentance and a heart that responds quickly when the Holy Spirit corrects me. I declare that my mind, my will, my emotions, and my intellect are surrendered to the Lord. I am being transformed from the inside out and I am becoming increasingly aligned with the truth, wisdom, and purposes of the Lord. When I encounter situations beyond my understanding, I will not rely upon yesterday’s discernment or my own ability, but I will say, “Lord, I don’t know. Please help me. Please teach me how to walk circumspectly with wisdom.”

I declare that the Holy Spirit is my Helper, Teacher, Guide, Corrector, and Counsellor and His ability is working through me, and He is equipping me with everything necessary to fulfil the good works the God has prepared for me to do on earth. I declare that I will hear the voice of the Lord with increasing clarity and I will understand His correction with increasing maturity. I will discern His ways with increasing wisdom and I will walk in greater truth, greater freedom, greater liberty, and greater spiritual understanding in Jesus name. Amen.