Today I share part One of my communion time with the Holy Spirit concerning understanding the process of the Kingdom.

In my communion time with the Holy Spirit, He emphasised the central reminder of the fact that there is a process for us to see the will of God become reality in our lives. From the natural standpoint, certain necessary spiritual ingredients must work together before the cycle of the Lord’s purpose for our lives reaches manifestation.

So we cannot treat the process by which this happens casually. We must be willing to work with the Holy Spirit, by allowing Him to show us the necessary adjustments, corrections, and realignments we must make to bring us into the fulfilment of what the Lord has spoken to us.

We must remember that the same Lord who tells us to trust Him also tells us that we need patience and endurance, so that after we have done His will, we may inherit the promise. Patience is not merely a word we confess by simply saying I am patient, but it requires us actually waiting things out while maintaining an attitude of gratitude and trust in the process.

Without our willingness to wait for things to happen, patience cannot accomplish its work in us. James 1:4 teaches us that we must allow patience to have its perfect work in us so that we may become complete and lack nothing.

Jesus gives us an extensive teaching on this process in Mark 4:3-34, where He explains the operation of the Kingdom of God to His disciples and those gathered around Him. He starts the teaching with a parable, knowing fully well that many who hear it may not truly understand it.

They could hear the words He spoke concerning their lives, then simply walk away, and by the end of the day forget them or lose sight of their significance. Jesus therefore declares in Mark 4:9 these words: “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

This statement points to the reality of us hearing beyond the physical ear to the inner ear, which speaks to our spiritual capacity to hear, perceive, understand, and track with the Lord from our hearts. So not everyone who hears Jesus speaking through their natural ears is actually hearing what He is saying because His words are speaking to our spirits/ hearts, and there is a huge difference between us hearing words and our hearts receiving revelation.

Those disciples who followed Jesus were positioned to go further in the process because they had the opportunity to ask Him questions and seek deeper understanding. Mark 4:10 says these words: “But when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parable.”

This fact reveals a very important Kingdom principle that only the people who stayed close enough to Jesus to ask questions ever received clarity on a subject He taught, while those who merely heard the parable with the natural ear just moved on and did not receive anything from the life giving words He spoke.

When Jesus began addressing the specific Kingdom issues contained within this parable, the facts of their reality became clearer. A process of understanding began that would not have been available to someone who simply heard the parable and continued on without seeking further explanation.

Therefore, their willingness to stay back and ask the relevant questions by seeking further explanation is what made the truth concerning the operation of the Kingdom available for us to understand, live by, and apply in our individual lives.

Jesus then goes on to explain the distinction between those who are inside the Kingdom and those who are outside. In Mark 4:11-12, He says to His followers these words:“ To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables…”

This clearly points to the fact that there are privileges given to those who follow Jesus which includes the grace to know the mysteries of the Kingdom. But that privilege to hear must be engaged with for it to benefit us and it requires us taking the time to seek the Lord for deeper understanding.

Through my years of personal study and communion with the Holy Spirit, the realisation came to me that not every statement in Scripture is presented indiscriminately to everyone without qualification.

The Holy Spirit began revealing to me that the promises and declarations in the word have contexts, audiences, responsibilities, and qualifications. So the question became when approaching the promises in the word Who is being addressed, what are they being offered, and what qualifies us to partake of their reality?

This has led me to a deliberate determination to do whatever is necessary to qualify myself for the benefits Jesus offers, because those benefits always bring more abundant life. This same principle became evident through my studying of the introductions and contexts of the letters written by Paul, John, Peter, James, and Jude. Careful study and meditation of those introductions reveals clearly who each writer was addressing and who actually qualified to walk in the particular promises or declarations they were addressing.

One clear example given is the contrast between the church at Corinth and the church at Ephesus. The Corinthians could not simply operate as though they were the Ephesians and take up the whole armour of God to fight and overcome the schemes of the devil while they remained in a carnal condition walking out the truth with only their natural physical senses rather than through the lens of the Holy Spirit. Their carnality placed them in a state of enmity with the Lord and collaboration with their flesh, thus making them spiritually immature.

The point is perfectly clear that you cannot fight effectively against the one whose interests you are siding with. In other words you cannot operate from the standards of the world which is pride as your basis to fight for the Kingdom of God which requires humility for us to access its benefits. Paul also could not then give spiritually immature believers in Corinth the deeper truths of the Spirit because they were still babies. Solid spiritual food would have been harmful to them because they were not yet prepared to receive it.

I declare in the name of Jesus that I have spiritual ears to hear, and by the grace of the Holy Spirit I will truly hear what the Holy Spirit is saying to me. I will not merely listen to the Lord’s Word with my natural ears and move on, but I will seek understanding, by asking the right questions, to receive further revelation, own the truth, and apply it correctly in every area of my life.

I receive the grace to understand the mysteries and operation of the Kingdom of God. I declare that my spiritual understanding is increasing, and the Holy Spirit is teaching me how to walk through every season of the Lord’s process triumphantly with wisdom, patience, endurance, faith, gratitude, and obedience.

I declare that I will not grow weary in doing well and I will not faint before my due season. I will not abandon what the Lord has instructed me to do simply because the manifestation has taken a longer time than I had expected. I will let Patience is having its perfect work in me, and I am becoming complete, mature, and lacking nothing.

I declare that every lesson the Holy Spirit has taught me will become my ever increasing spiritual equipment for my journey. I declare that the truth will never remain dormant in me, but it will become active, living, and productive in my life. I will gird my heart with what the Lord reveals to me, by walking in it, and seeing the miraculous fruit it produces in my life circumstances in Jesus Name. Amen.