Today I share the conclusion of my communion time with the Holy Spirit.

Do we continue thinking negatively when the Lord is inviting us to learn how He processes situations beyond our human limitations? These questions matter because our willingness to be corrected determines how much we can continue hearing and understanding from the Holy Spirit. The question remains as to whether we will allow the Holy Spirit to change our thought processing to line up with His. The Holy Spirit is asking us whether we are willing to change our thoughts today and embrace a new and fuller truth, or whether we will avoid the areas of confrontation He is asking us to deal with.

Our cooperation with Him is absolutely necessary for us to correctly interpret truth and the Lord’s facts in any situation. I have come to understand that there can be a difference between what the Lord says about a situation and how we interpret that situation through our existing experiences, assumptions, fears, and preconceived ideas. Therefore, spiritual maturity requires us to surrender to His will. We must allow the Holy Spirit to change us from the inside out because He wants access not merely to our outward behaviour but to our entire inner person which includes our minds, our wills, emotions, and our intellect because this is how He makes us new.

This message includes a personal testimony illustrating the importance of humility and dependence upon the Holy Spirit when we hear His voice. I recall vividly the occasion, when the Holy Spirit asked me what would happen when I saw “Jezebel” operating in the church. My initial response was essentially, “I know her now.” Because through Holy Spirit discernment I had previously received concerning the spirit’s operation, I was confident that the situation could be navigated successfully.

That presumed confidence proved to be a big mistake because the reality was that the influence and operation of this spirit within the church had not been fully understood in its fullness and I had assumed I had full understanding. There was another experience of me being hurt in the church because of the deception I had concerning how the spirit was operating through believers or followers of Jesus. The lesson was clear to me that previous discernment does not mean we have complete knowledge for the next situation.

The Holy Spirit later provided another opportunity for me to respond differently when in another situation involving the prophetic arm of the church, the Holy Spirit again asked me what I would do when I encountered “Jezebel” operating through prophecy in the Church. This time my response was different and I asked Him saying: “Lord, I don’t know. Please help me. I am not skilled to deal with such issues.” That response reflected humility and dependence on Him rather than confidence in my personal gift of discernment.

What followed was very significant because the reality of the spirit’s operation within the house of the Lord was far more extensive than I previously understood, particularly within leadership roles in prophetic ministry. What I discovered was startling and could have been crushing on me had I responded by saying I knew its operation. However because the Holy Spirit was allowed to lead me through the events which happened, the outcome was completely different and the experience resulted in the truth triumphing , greater freedom, liberty in the Spirit, and no spiritual defilement in my heart.

This testimony therefore becomes an expression of gratitude from me to: Thank You, precious Holy Spirit, for Your help and guidance which delivered me from so great a conflict. The same kind of situation arose later concerning the apostolic arm of the church when again, the Holy Spirit asked me what I thought about the spirit of “Jezebel” operating within the Apostolic branch of the church. Again, my response was not one of assumed mastery but my response was: Lord: “I don’t know. Please teach me how to walk circumspectly with wisdom to navigate this issue.” This posture of humility and dependence allowed the Holy Spirit to guide me through the process.

Through the Holy Spirit’s leading, much loss and unnecessary leadership conflict was avoided, and the experience became an opportunity for me to be seasoned by the Lord and equipped with spiritual understanding to help bring prisoners to the spirit out into the liberty of walking in the Holy Spirit. The result ended up not simply for my personal preservation but the experience produced spiritual equipment that could be used to help, assist, and aid the Lord’s people in their journey through life by the Holy Spirit.

The emphasis throughout the testimony is that the ability to discern did not come from personal strength or natural expertise. It came through the Holy Spirit and His ability, not merely through human ability making it clear that the positioning of our hearts determines our level of hearing. The central lesson is therefore clear for us all because how we position ourselves before the Lord determines how much we will hear from Him. The level of understanding we can walk in going forward is connected to the degree to which we surrender more of our hearts and souls to Him.

That surrender includes our minds, our wills, our emotions, and our intellects because the Holy Spirit wants to transform us from the inside out. He wants to make us brand new, but this requires our cooperation, so we cannot stubbornly hold onto to our preconceived ideas and simultaneously expect to receive the fullness of the Lord’s truth. If we insist that we already know, we risk missing out on what the Holy Spirit wants to teach us to expand our understanding of spiritual things.

If we keep defending our existing interpretation instead of surrendering it, we can lose access to a fuller understanding of the Lord’s truth and His ways. If we refuse correction, we can hinder our progression into the greater works the Lord wants to reveal to us for this season. Therefore, humility is absolutely essential and the proper posture for us is not, “I know,” but it is: “Lord, I don’t know, but it is Lord teach me, Lord help me by showing me how to walk in wisdom.”

We must embrace the leading of the Holy Spirit because He is the One who causes us to triumph in every area of life. The purpose of Jesus’ coming was that we would have life and have it in its fullest measure. Therefore, we should never settle for merely surviving spiritually, but we should continually pursue the fullness of life that Christ came to give us. This requires us living in a place of complete union with the Holy Spirit and our union with Him is not a one-time experience. It requires a continued daily surrender, continued listening, continued waiting, continued correction, and continued hunger for the things of the Lord.

Every morning presents another opportunity for us to wait at wisdom’s door because every day has something new the Holy Spirit wants to say, and every day has something new the Lord wants us to learn. Every day always presents another fresh opportunity for us to surrender our hearts more deeply to the Lord so we become more conformed to His image and likeness. Thus every day can lead us into greater understanding of the Father’s will.

The Holy Spirit is therefore inviting us into a lifestyle of daily longing for more and not us just merely celebrating yesterday’s revelation, by merely living on yesterday’s victory. We must not assume that yesterday’s discernment is sufficient for today’s situation, and we are not to allow yesterday’s experience to become a substitute for today’s fellowship. Instead, we should wake up each morning with the posture of Proverbs 8:34 which is waiting patiently at wisdom’s doorway and longing to hear the word for the day.

We are to stand watch as Habakkuk 2:1 describes, by being willing not only to hear what the Lord will say, but also to be ready to receive correction. We are to repent quickly and sincerely when the Holy Spirit exposes something that needs to change by quickly releasing our preconceived ideas. This gives us liberty to surrender our minds, wills, emotions, and intellect which allows the Holy Spirit to transform us from the inside out.

And whenever we encounter something beyond our understanding, we must resist the temptation to say, “I know.” Instead, we should say: “Lord, I don’t know. Please teach me how to discern correctly by helping me wait on your wisdom. Then show me by teaching me how to walk circumspectly with the wisdom you give me.” That posture is what creates room for the Holy Spirit to lead us, protect us, correct us, teach us, equip us, and prepare us for the greater works the Lord has in store for us.

This invitation is to go deeper into union with the Holy Spirit so we get to hear more clearly, understand more fully, and walk more accurately in the will of the Father for our individual lives. May these truths as we permit them to take root in our hearts release the grace necessary for us to carry us further in our hearing and understanding the Holy Spirit’s instructions. May we grow closer to Him and enter a much higher and greater level of the knowledge of Lord’s will for our lives. Amen.

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 the 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.

I declare that the Holy Spirit will lead me safely through troubled waters and difficult circumstances into places of triumph and I will not be spiritually defiled by what I encounter because I am learning to depend upon His wisdom rather than my own. I declare that the zeal of the Lord is increasing within me and just like Jesus, whose zeal for His Father’s house consumed Him (John 2:17), I will be consumed with passion for the Lord and His purposes.

I declare that I will experience the greater works that the Father desires to reveal through and in me (John 5:20-21). I receive grace to experience the fullness of Christ’s life and the reality of His prayer for His people in (John 17:22-26). I will continually position myself before the Lord, by standing upon my watch, to listen for His voice, to receive His correction, and respond in obedience to His correction.(Habakkuk 2:1).

I declare that I am moving deeper into union with the Holy Spirit and I am growing in the full knowledge of the Lord’s will for my individual life. I will not settle for just bursts of partial understanding when the Holy Spirit is inviting me into walk in the knowledge of much greater truth. I say yes, Lord that I want all that You have prepared for me and I surrender more of myself to You.

Please teach me the right things to do, by correcting me where necessary, do a work of transformation in me, then guide me, equip me, and lead me into the greater works You have prepared for me to accomplish on earth to glorify the name of Jesus. I will confidently wait at wisdom’s door, to hear what You say, and walk faithfully in what You reveal to me in Jesus’ name, Amen.