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Today I am sharing a condensed summary of my communion time with the Lord to help you use it more easily to deal with the circumstances which you are facing as your equipment for the day.

This morning in my communion time, the Holy Spirit reminded me again of the faithfulness of our Father which is both steadfast and immutable. So why should we entertain any thought other than what the Lord has said concerning us? Does the Lord ever listen to the accusations, opinions, anger, or jealousy of men before deciding whether He will fulfil His Word in our lives? Absolutely not.

The Holy Spirit wants us to understand that what the Lord has spoken is forever settled and nothing can stop Him from doing what He has promised. However, our thoughts can hinder our participation in the manifestation of His word when we start agreeing with fear, doubt, and the voice of the adversary instead of agreeing with what the Lord says.

The Lord says concerning us in Isaiah.66:9 these words: “Will I open the womb and not deliver? I have made this place labour in terrible pain, But do you think I won’t help it give birth? That is what I, the Eternal One have to say.” In other words when the Lord opens a womb, He intends for it to bring forth children/ fruit. He does not create something for one purpose and then abandon it at the point of its fulfilment.

Sarah the wife of Abraham was barren, yet at ninety years old she conceived and gave birth to Isaac. The Lord was able to reactivate her womb which had appeared incapable of producing all her life. The miracle was not dependent upon their human strength or wisdom but upon the faithfulness and ability of the Lord because the Lord created the womb to deliver, and deliver is what the womb will do.

Perhaps you have experienced much pain, struggle, delay, opposition, and storms around something the Lord has spoken over your life. Does this mean that you would conclude that the Lord has suddenly lost His power at the very point of delivery concerning your situation? Just remember Peter when Jesus told him to come to Him on the water, and Peter actually walked on the water.

However when he accepted another thought, he began to sink. Jesus asked him, “why did you doubt.” The problem was not that Jesus had withdrawn His ability it was that Peter had allowed a contrary thought to replace his confidence in Jesus’ word. Therefore, the Holy Spirit is calling us back to unswerving agreement with the word from the Lord.

Never let the voice of the enemy become louder than the voice of the Father to you by allowing fear to make you question whether the Lord is able to complete what He began with you. His nature has not changed and His faithfulness has not changed because His ability has not diminished.

The sun continues to fulfil its assignment for the earth because the Lord put within it what it needs to continue. In the same way, the Lord’s purposes do not depend upon the strength of men because what He has ordained, He has also made provision for. So the Holy Spirit is saying: Agree with Me and Believe Me to the end of fulfilment. It is time to lay hold of the grace to step completely out of doubt and into confidence in the Lord’s immutable counsel.

Laugh in the face of obstacles and ridicule the enemy as you march fully into what the Lord has promised you, knowing that the One who spoke is faithful. Ephesians.3:20 reminds us that the Lord is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.

Therefore, let us repent of every thought that has questioned the Lord’s ability to help us by returning to the place of complete trust. Let us remain steadfast and immovable concerning what He has spoken. What the Lord has promised will come forth.

Father, I repent for every time I have allowed doubt, fear, circumstances, or the words of others to make me question Your ability to fulfil Your Word. Holy Spirit, help me to agree completely with You and restore my confidence in the Father’s faithfulness. Teach me to believe Your Word to the very end and to remain steadfast when I am standing at the point of manifestation.

I receive the grace to trust You without wavering by refusing every thought that says that the Lord will fail, abandon, or withdraw from what He has promised you. I choose to believe that You are faithful, and I choose to agree with You to walk in rich fulfilment in Jesus’ name. Amen.

I declare that I will believe the Lord to the end and I will not surrender to doubt, fear, opposition, or the voice of the adversary. I declare that what the Lord has spoken concerning me will come forth and the womb of my heart will deliver because the promise will be fulfilled. I receive grace to remain steadfast and immovable until I see the full manifestation of the Lord’s Word. My mind agrees with the Lord and my heart agrees with the Lord.

I declare that my words agree with what the Lord has spoken and my actions agree with the Lord. I will no longer accommodate thoughts that hinder my cooperation with the Lord’s purpose because I remain aligned with His immutable and unswerving counsel concerning me.

I trust implicitly the One who promised me the blessings, because He is faithful and nothing will stop His purpose for my life. I will see the goodness, faithfulness, and power of the Lord manifested in full measure, with nothing missing and nothing broken, in Jesus’ name. Amen!

Here is the conclusion to my communion time with the Holy Spirit on the things we must always stand against in our lives that Jesus has given to us so we remain steadfast and immovable in our walk with the Lord.

The Holy Spirit also taught me how to deal with the contests that would arise against my trust in the Lord and against His authority over my live. So Psalm.2 became a reality to me as the platform of my warfare strategy for dealing against the enemy with what raged against my relationship with the Lord.

This reality of the enemy staging purposeful attacks against the servants of the Lord I could clearly understand in light of the fact that Psalm.2 contains a prophecy concerning opposition against Lord’s purposes on earth, and Peter later alluded to this prophecy in Acts.4, when the believers prayed concerning the people and authorities who had come together in opposition to Jesus and His work.

That prophetic pattern revealed that alliances could arise against the anointing and against the Lord’s work. So the understanding given by the Holy Spirit made it possible for me to recognise and deal with the schemes and strategies that satan raised against me with confidence that my outcome would be triumph no matter the assault. So rather than being surprised by opposition or becoming passive under it, we as Jesus’s followers must learn that Jesus wants us His people strong, courageous, and fully able to stand their ground and take territory on His behalf.

The anointing the Lord gives us is so that we the followers of Jesus would not live passively under the circumstances of life but overcome them all. The anointing was given to make us to become Burden removers, Yoke destroyers, World overcomers, Always triumphers, Barrier breakers and earth shakers who go about healing all who are oppressed by the devil because the Lord is with us. We are called to manifest the Lord and His name on a daily, persistent basis and demonstrate that the Lord rules in the affairs of men on the earth.

This means our lives should continually testify to the Lord’s dominion, power, presence, and victory. We are not to allow the works of the devil to establish permanent territory in our lives. The message gives a strong warning that “We are never to allow passivity to have a place in our lives as it is a sign of backsliding.” The follower of Jesus is called to be forward-moving. We are to press into what the Lord has prepared ahead of us rather than continually looking backward or remaining trapped in what has already happened.

The Lord wants us to be overcomers regardless of the situation we face. This principle is repeatedly demonstrated in the book of Revelation, where Jesus speaks to seven churches. Each church had different circumstances, struggles, obstacles, and challenges, yet the message to each one consistently included the command to overcome. The obstacles were different, but His requirement remained the same: Overcome.

The next spiritual level, the next position, and the next dimension of authority are only reached by continually refusing to surrender to the obstacle and continuing to overcome. There is a recognisable pattern in the instructions the Holy Spirit gives that require us to do something. The purpose is always to bring us back into active engagement with the Lord. The Holy Spirit’s instructions are not designed to leave us sitting passively in our circumstances but they call us back into action, movement, participation, and advancement.

Every instruction from the Holy Spirit is intended to get us engaged again so that we can take more ground and move into greater results for the Kingdom. Therefore, hearing this word today must produce spiritual action in your life. The grace accompanying this word must be allowed to establish victory within us and permeate our entire being until it produces a decisive response. We must actively disallow every work of the devil from having any further place or portion in our lives.

Acts.13:46 gives us a clear example of the level of boldness required to fulfil the will of God: “Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold and said, “It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken to you first; but since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.” Paul and Barnabas did not remain endlessly pleading with people who had rejected the Word but they grew bold and acted according to what the Lord had instructed them to do.

This same boldness must characterise our response to the oppression of the devil. There must be no more morbidly lingering around complaining about the oppression we are experiencing or suffering. There must be a decisive declaration against it saying: “You are leaving now because I will not tolerate you hurting and harming me any longer.” This is the posture of someone who has recognised the victory Jesus has already made available for them to exercise here on the earth.

Our response is to rise up in the triumph of Jesus and resist every form of oppression from the devil. We as followers of Jesus must move into a life free from the dominion of the law of sin and death and choose instead to walk in the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, which sets us free from the law of sin and death.

Our declaration therefore becomes: “Oppression of the devil, leave my presence now in Jesus name and never come back, as I will not allow you place to hurt me any longer in Jesus name.” This is a declaration of resistance, authority, and refusal to give oppression permission to establish itself in our lives. The emphasis of this declaration is not passive observation but active resistance.

As you take your stand in what Jesus accomplished for you, watch what happens to the oppression which you have been experiencing. It will diminish and become nothing before you. The reason for this is that you are no longer agreeing with its right to dominate you by standing in what Jesus suffered and accomplished on your behalf. Jesus paid the price so that you do not have to continue suffering under the very works He came to destroy.

Therefore, receive the reality of Jesus’s finished work for you to walk in His authority. So take your stand by refusing the devil’s works which involve oppression. Making sure you refuse passivity which leads to surrendering territory that Jesus has already purchased for you to experience. The Holy Spirit’s final exhortation is to receive this word with your whole heart.

Do not let it go regardless of what tries to challenge it. So when circumstances attempt to contradict it, remain steadfast. When symptoms attempt to return, remain steadfast. When opposition rises, remain steadfast in your rebuking it. When satan raises schemes and strategies to confuse and accuse you, just remain steadfast. Do not allow any demonic challenge to make you abandon the reality of what Jesus has accomplished for you, but remain steadfast and immovable in the reality of His victory.

As you do, you will experience a freedom of the highest order which represents a freedom that places you in the glory zone that the Lord purposed for you to walk in. The Lord’s intention is not that you merely survive opposition but His purpose is that you rise above it, overcome it, and continually manifest His triumph. Therefore I encourage you, to receive this word with boldness, by acting upon it, to stand your ground, and walk in the liberty Jesus has already made available to you.

Father, in the name of Jesus, I receive the truth of Your Word with my whole heart. Holy Spirit, please give me the grace to recognise every work of the devil that I have tolerated, accepted, feared, or allowed to have a place in my life and awaken me to the reality of what Jesus has already accomplished on my behalf.

I refuse to give oppression, bondage, fear, or the works of the devil permission to rule or have dominion over me. So I choose on purpose to stand in the triumph of Jesus. Holy Spirit please make me strong and courageous by teaching me to stand my ground, by resisting every scheme and strategy of the enemy, and taking territory on behalf of Your Kingdom.

Deliver me from passivity and keep me forward-moving and pressing into everything You have prepared for me. Make me an overcomer, a barrier breaker, a burden remover, a yoke destroyer, and a persistent manifestation of Your power and glory. Holy Spirit, empower me to act upon every instruction You give me. Let the grace accompanying this word permeate my whole being and bring me into decisive action.

I choose on purpose to walk in the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus by refusing the dominion of the law of sin and death. I stand in the freedom Jesus purchased for me. Let every work of the devil diminish before me until it becomes nothing and let my life continually demonstrate that You rule in the affairs of men on the earth. I receive the freedom, victory, authority, and triumph Jesus have purposed for me.

I declare in Jesus name that the works of the devil have no right to rule me, dominate me, control me, or establish a place in my life. I know for a fact that Jesus was manifested in the flesh to destroy the works of the devil, and I stand in the victory He has already accomplished for me.

Therefore I refuse every form of oppression, bondage, and satanic interference. So I will not accept what Jesus came to earth to destroy. I will not give the enemy permission to trespass upon my life as I stand in the authority of Jesus and resist every work of darkness in His name from oppressing me. Amen.

I declare that I am strong and courageous. I am an overcomer, I am a barrier breaker, a world overcomer, a burden remover, and a yoke destroyer. The anointing upon my life causes me to triumph continually, and through my life the name and power of the Lord are manifested persistently. I reject passivity and move forward. I am pressing into what the Lord has prepared ahead of me.

I declare that every obstacle becomes an opportunity for me to overcome. Every opposition is defeated. Every scheme and strategy of satan raised against the Lord’s purpose for my life is rendered powerless. I walk in the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, and I am free from the law of sin and death. So oppression of the devil, leave my presence now in Jesus name and never return because you have no place, no portion, and no authority to hurt or harm me.

I remain steadfast and immovable in the reality of Jesus’ finished work. I will not surrender my confidence because of circumstances, symptoms, opposition, or contradiction and I stand my ground and take territory for the Kingdom of God. Every work of the devil diminishes before me and becomes nothing because I now walk in the freedom Jesus purchased for me through His suffering on my behalf. I enter and remain in the glory zone the Lord has purposed for me by walking in victory, freedom, authority, and triumph as my life continually proves that Jesus Christ reigns in Jesus’ name. Amen.

As we prepare for Rosh Hashanah this weekend which is the Head of the year I encourage you to reflect on how you have walked throughout this past year and demonstrate your willingness to walk free of all oppression of the devil. I am sharing the first part of my reflections with the Holy Spirit gleaned from my communion time with Him.

Today the Holy Spirit wants you to look carefully at the things you must stand against and never allow to rule, dominate, or have dominion over your life affairs. There are realities of life that Jesus has already paid the price to free you from. So you have no business allowing these things to rob you, threaten you, control you, or keep you in bondage by giving them the right to master you.

The Holy Spirit is emphasising that there are things you must refuse to allow to overcome you because Jesus has already paid the price for your freedom from them. The issue is therefore not merely hoping that freedom will come someday, but walking in that freedom now. There is the finished work of Jesus that establishes the basis for your freedom, and you are being called to stand in what He has accomplished for you.

1John.3:8 gives us the foundation for this fact which reads these words: “He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.” These words make perfectly clear the difference between the purpose of Jesus for our lives and the purpose of satan against us.

Sin unfortunately was initiated into humanity through satan when Adam submitted to his lie in the Garden of Eden and ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil with Eve. From that time, sin became the dominant force working against humanity, with satan seeking through it to keep people bound, controlled, and subject to the consequences of his wicked and twisted purposes.

However the Apostle John wants us to understand this reality as a fact of life, and not merely as a promise we are hoping will eventually become a reality that the Son of God, Jesus was manifested on the earth to destroy the works of the devil. Jesus deliberately and purposefully came to deal with the works of satan.

Therefore, we must ask ourselves what are the works of the devil that Jesus went about destroying? The Holy Spirit’s instruction is very clear for us to know that these are the things we must not allow to rule us or have any place in our lives because Jesus has already destroyed them and rendered them impotent against us.

Jesus we know from scripture intentionally went after the works of satan and destroyed them. So how can we accept the idea that the One who destroyed the works of satan would then permit those same works to dominate His beloved ones? Yet unfortunately this is exactly what believers can sometimes foolishly believe and accept when satan attacks them with sickness, disease, bondage, oppression, or other forms of affliction.

The Holy Spirit is calling us to recognise the contradiction and know for a fact that Jesus destroyed the works of the devil, therefore we must not willingly surrender to those works and allow them to become masters over our lives. Peter gives us a clear picture of Jesus’ earthly ministry in action in Acts.10:38 which reads these words: “how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”

It will do you good to look carefully at the purpose and intent of Jesus’ life which was to go about doing good, which resulted in Him healing all who were oppressed by the devil. This fact reveals something important about the source of oppression: because we see clearly that oppression is caused and initiated by the devil, and not the Lord. Therefore, there is a definite reason for us to refuse to accept any form of oppression in our lives, regardless of how it manifests itself.

Jesus demonstrated through His life that He possessed the power to destroy all the various forms of oppression established by the devil and to liberate humanity from their control. This fact remains His legacy, it remains His policy and it remains His immutable counsel which we as His followers, get to inherit here on earth. So we are not called merely to observe Jesus’ victory from a distance, but we are called to stand in the victory He has made available to and for us and to demonstrate His triumph in our own lives.

I was reminded of the day the reality of freedom from oppression became a reality in my personal life as this truth was realised in my life through this word. This was the first day I knew in reality that sickness had no power to dominate my life because when a severe headache occurred against me , the Holy Spirit prompted me to instruct it to leave my body because it had no right to oppress me and as I rebuked it in the name of Jesus it left me instantly. It was a very liberating experience to have severe pain which would last for hours unless I took pain killers leave me instantly when I spoke to it in Jesus name.

A few minutes later, as I was stunned by the new reality when the symptoms attempted to resurface, almost as though testing whether I believed that it had truly lost its place in my life. However the Holy Spirit again gave me another instruction to speak to it and declare that it had no right to trespass upon my body which settled the matter of me walking in divine healing and health.

From that point onward, the understanding became a practical way of me walking by refusing sickness and disease were the right to establish themselves in my body which is the Temple of the Holy Spirit, and all symptoms that have attempted to arise have been rebuked rather than accepted because I know my authority over sickness in the name of Jesus.

I have further come to the knowledge that my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and therefore oppression of my body is not passively welcomed or given permission to trespass in my life. The larger principle is that the Holy Spirit teaches us the followers of Jesus how to stand in the freedom Jesus purchased for us rather than simply accepting whatever opposition comes via the devil.

Father, in the name of Jesus, I receive the truth of Your Word with my whole heart. Holy Spirit, please give me the grace to recognise every work of the devil that I have tolerated, accepted, feared, or allowed to have a place in my life and awaken me to the reality of what Jesus has already accomplished on my behalf.

I refuse to give oppression, bondage, fear, or the works of the devil permission to rule or have dominion over me. So I choose on purpose to stand in the triumph of Jesus. Holy Spirit please make me strong and courageous by teaching me to stand my ground, by resisting every scheme and strategy of the enemy, and taking territory on behalf of Your Kingdom.

I declare in Jesus name that the works of the devil have no right to rule me, dominate me, control me, or establish a place in my life. I know for a fact that Jesus was manifested in the flesh to destroy the works of the devil, and I stand in the victory He has already accomplished for me.

Therefore I refuse every form of oppression, bondage, and satanic interference. So I will not accept what Jesus came to earth to destroy. I will not give the enemy permission to trespass upon my life as I stand in the authority of Jesus and resist every work of darkness in His name from oppressing me. Amen.

Today I conclude the revelation from my communion time with the Holy Spirit on our attitude to experiencing the Lord’s provision for our lives.

This is the place the Lord wants us to walk where we completely trust in His ability to do what He has said. There should be no anxiety in us concerning our provision. There should be no consuming worry about how our needs will be met. There should be no double-mindedness in our hearts between trusting the Lord and depending primarily upon human ability. Instead, there must be complete trust and dependence upon the Lord’s ability and His nature to provide for those whom He has chosen.

Jesus makes it clear that the things about which we become anxious are precisely the things the people of the world spend their lives seeking after and working for. Yet our Father already knows that we need these things while we are on the earth. So the key issue is therefore not whether these things are what we should strife for with all our heart because the Lord already knows they are necessary for us to have on the earth. The issue is what will occupy our hearts and determine our priority.

Jesus’ instruction is unmistakable: “But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you.” The Kingdom must become our primary pursuit. Jesus insists that we pursue the Kingdom with all our hearts, trusting that everything we genuinely need will be supplied once we obey His instructions. In fact, Jesus goes even further to say these words: “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” It pleases the Father to give us the Kingdom.

The Kingdom Mandate contains all the fullness of the Lord’s provision. It has everything we could ever possibly need. Therefore, our priority must not be consumed by chasing the things that the world considers its ultimate security. We are to go diligently after the Kingdom by wholeheartedly pursuing the Lord. We are to trust His nature by depending upon His ability to do what He has spoken. We are to allow the Holy Spirit to lead us into the truth of the Lord’s provision rather than allowing fear, doubt, anxiety, and unbelief to dictate our priorities.

The truths presented here are intended to take charge of our hearts and settle us into the place of peace and rest concerning our provision. We are called to repent for allowing doubt to push us away from truth and into a lie—the lie that the Lord does not care about our provision and that providing for ourselves must become our highest priority. When fear convinces us that everything depends upon our own ability, we can become so occupied with securing our lives that we neglect the Kingdom.

The Holy Spirit is calling us out of that place and the answer is not merely to tell ourselves not to worry because we need the grace of the Holy Spirit to empower us to see as Jesus wants us to see. We need to operate in the grace to recover ourselves from the stupor of anxiety and unbelief. Then we need the grace to consider provision correctly from Jesus’ perspective. We need grace to recognise again what our true priority is and embrace the grace to pursue the Kingdom with all of our hearts.

The Holy Spirit wants us to recover the correct order of our lives. So instead of making provision our master, we must make the Kingdom our pursuit. Rather than allow anxiety to govern our decisions, we must on purpose trust our Father’s reputation. So instead of allowing human expertise to become our ultimate authority, we should make listening to the Holy Spirit, who possesses all wisdom and truth our final authority.

We must stop depending primarily upon what man can do for us, by depending upon the Lord who created you, redeemed you, called you, and knows exactly what you need. As you return to this perspective, we will experience everything that has already been apportioned to you by the Lord. The Holy Spirit wants to guide us into all truth and free us from the lie that has kept us anxious, fearful, double-minded, and overly occupied with earthly provision.

The Lord has ordained a place for His people which is a place of victory and triumph in Jesus’ name. Therefore, the call for us is to trust the Lord completely, by pursuing His Kingdom wholeheartedly, and allow His Spirit to lead us into the fullness of what He has already made available for us.

The central message from this revelation is a call from the Holy Spirit for us to examine the basis of our trust by taking a good look at who we believe, whose counsel we allow to direct our lives, and whose word we permit in our hearts to determine our future. The question is not whether human experts have knowledge or whether their advice can be useful, but whether we have placed their words above the voice of the One who possesses all wisdom and all truth.

The Holy Spirit is asking us why we would readily trust a human expert because he has studied a subject and follow his instructions to the letter, while questioning, scrutinising, or hesitating over the instructions of the Holy Spirit. The Lord wants us to recognise what determines whom we trust, rely upon, and depend upon concerning our lives.

Father, in the name of Jesus, I repent for every place where I have allowed doubt, fear, anxiety, and unbelief to cause me to question Your care for me and Your ability to provide for me. Holy Spirit, please empower me to see as Jesus wants me to see and deliver me from every lie that has made me believe that my provision must become my highest priority. Recover my heart from every form of anxiety and double-mindedness.

Teach me to trust You completely and how to rely upon Your wisdom, Your truth, Your nature, and Your ability. Help me to recognise my value to You so I can live from the confidence that if You care for the ravens, You will certainly care for me. I choose to seek the Kingdom of God with all my heart and flatly refuse to allow worry about food, drink, provision, or tomorrow to control my heart.

I believe that my Father knows what I need, and I trust His good pleasure to give me the Kingdom. Holy Spirit, please guide me into all truth by freeing me from every lie. Then faithfully lead me into the place You have ordained for me, to enable me to experience everything You have already apportioned to me to have on earth in Jesus’ name. Amen.

I declare that I will trust the Lord completely and absolutely and I will not allow anxiety concerning provision to overthrow my confidence in the Lord’s faithfulness. I know that I am valuable to my Father, and I know that He cares for me, watches over me, and provides for me. I refuse to make earthly provision my highest pursuit but I seek the Kingdom of God with all my heart, and I trust that everything I need shall be added to me.

I will not be double-minded, unstable, fearful, or driven by anxiety. My confidence is in the Lord and in His unchanging Word. The Holy Spirit always leads me into all truth and delivers me from every lie. I receive grace to see from Jesus’ perspective, to trust in the Lord’s nature, and to depend upon His ability. I recover my Kingdom priority, by walking in divine provision, and I experience everything that has already been apportioned to me by the Lord.

I declare that I am not abandoned, I am not forgotten and I am not without supply. My Father knows what I need, and it is His good pleasure to give me the Kingdom. Therefore, I walk in trust, I walk in peace, walk in provision, and I walk in total victory and triumph in Jesus’ name. Amen!

I am sharing Part One of my communion time with the Holy Spirit concerning the foundation of our trust.

The Holy Spirit spoke to me in my communion time about examining the foundation of our trust by asking ourselves these questions, Who do you trust? Whose word do you rely upon? Whose counsel is determining the direction of your life and the future you are pursuing? Why do we readily trust the word of a human expert simply because that person has studied a particular subject and claims to know everything about it, so that we obey his instructions carefully and completely, while we question the instructions of the Holy Spirit, who possesses all wisdom and truth?

This is a matter of us recognising the One whose knowledge is perfect and whose counsel is unfailing. So the Holy Spirit wants us to look carefully at what makes us determine whom we will trust, rely upon, and depend upon concerning our lives. He wants us to examine whose counsel we permit to determine our future actions. Jesus taught us to consider certain realities that are constant on the earth and from those realities determine the position we will take concerning our trust in the Lord.

In Luke.12:24 Jesus gives us a powerful lesson on provision with these words: “Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?” When Jesus says, “Consider the ravens.” He is asking us to stop our thought process, observe, think carefully, and recognise the principle which is at work in the Lord’s relationship with His creation.

Firstly the ravens do not have the privilege of sowing and reaping in the way human beings do. Therefore, they cannot deliberately produce and secure their own food supply. They are also limited because they cannot build storehouses or barns in which they can preserve excess produce from a bumper harvest and draw from those reserves when difficult times come. Yet, despite all these limitations, the Lord feeds them.

The ravens cannot plan ahead in the manner human beings can because they cannot establish systems of provision for tomorrow. They cannot accumulate resources against future uncertainty. Nevertheless, the Lord takes responsibility for sustaining them. Jesus then brings the lesson directly to us with a question we must answer: “Of how much more value are you than the birds?” This raises another important question of: How do you value yourself?

Your understanding of your value before the Lord will influence how much you are able to receive from Him rather than depending upon what human beings can do for you. You are of much greater value in the eyes of the Lord than you understand and appreciate. Jesus we know did not merely speak about human value; He demonstrated it through His sacrifice for us. He gave up His position in glory, came to the earth, and died for our sins and He became our atonement so that we could once again reign in life.

Jesus did not do this for the ravens. However, because He created the ravens and gave them life, He ensures that they are provided for in their lifetime. If the Lord cares enough to provide for creatures that cannot sow, reap, build barns, or plan for tomorrow, how much more will He care for human beings whom He created, redeemed, and has called to fulfil His purposes on the earth? This message emphasises that this fact is not merely a theological idea, but it is a reality that can be observed practically.

In the area where I live I have watched my neighbours come out daily at fixed times to put food out for ravens as a duty, but I know that those same people would not go out every day to provide food for another human being. This reality becomes a living demonstration of the principle Jesus taught that the Lord provides for His creation. So certainly, what is of value to the Lord, human beings He will provide for.

Therefore because the Lord needs human beings on the earth to do His will and execute His plan, He will certainly ensure that those whom He has chosen are adequately provided for and looked after comfortably. We must never allow our need for provision to destroy our trust in the Lords ability to supply all our needs. Jesus repeatedly taught His disciples not to worry about their provision of food. Why you ask? Because He knew what worrying about provision would do to interfere with their trust in Him as their Source and Supply.

Jesus never wanted His disciples to have that conflict of interest in their hearts because anxiety concerning provision could leave them double-minded and unstable in heart, thus making them unable to receive the benefits available to them through their relationship with Him. The Lord always demands our complete and absolute trust in His ability to do what He has said because His Word is forever settled and dependable Psalm.89:34: “My covenant will I not break nor alter the word that comes out of My mouth.”

The Lord is not unreliable, and He does not make promises and then change His mind. His covenant remains His covenant, and His Word remains His Word. Therefore, our confidence cannot ultimately rest in the stability of human systems, human expertise, human resources, or circumstances. Our confidence must rest in the nature and ability of the Lord Himself who can do all things.

Jesus then goes on to give us the conclusion we are supposed to reach after considering the ravens. In Luke.12:29-32 He says these words: “And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind. 30 For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that you need these things. 31 But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you. 32 “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

I declare that I will trust the Lord completely and absolutely and I will not allow anxiety concerning provision to overthrow my confidence in the Lord’s faithfulness. I know that I am valuable to my Father, and I know that He cares for me, watches over me, and provides for me. I refuse to make earthly provision my highest pursuit but I seek the Kingdom of God with all my heart, and I trust that everything I need shall be added to me.

I will not be double-minded, unstable, fearful, or driven by anxiety. My confidence is in the Lord and in His unchanging Word. The Holy Spirit always leads me into all truth and delivers me from every lie. I receive grace to see from Jesus’ perspective, to trust in the Lord’s nature, and to depend upon His ability. I recover my Kingdom priority, by walking in divine provision, and I experience everything that has already been apportioned to me by the Lord in Jesus name. Amen.

During my communion time with the Holy Spirit, the Lord brought a fresh broader understanding concerning the true nature and purpose of revelation knowledge. Over many years of walking with the Holy Spirit, it has become clearly evident to me that revelation is indispensable for one to fulfil the Lord’s plan for our lives.

Success in the Kingdom is not determined by our human intelligence, reasoning, or personal insight, but by us receiving and walking in the thoughts, purposes, and intentions of the Lord revealed by the Holy Spirit. Revelation is what enables us to see life from the Lord’s perspective rather than our own, which gives us the divine advantage in every situation. The Holy Spirit directed my attention to Matthew 16:17–19, where Jesus commended Peter after he had confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Jesus declared that Peter’s understanding had not come through flesh and blood, but through a revelation from the Father in heaven. Because Peter received this divine revelation, Jesus entrusted him with a remarkable understanding of Kingdom authority pointing to the fact that the Church would be built upon this revealed truth, and the gates of Hades would not prevail against it, and Peter would receive the keys of the Kingdom, with the authority to bind and loose on earth according to heaven’s dictates revealed.

This passage demonstrates the fact that revelation knowledge is not just merely information, but it is the gateway into divine authority, triumph, and partnership with the Lord to establish His Kingdom on earth. Receiving the Lord’s revelation elevates us the followers of Jesus into a place where heaven’s purposes can be established on earth in our lives.

I was then led to reflect on a personal experience, when after receiving the first genuine revelation from the Holy Spirit and witnessing its transforming results, there arose an ongoing hunger in me to continually seek and pursue greater revelation. It became clearly evident to me that without revelation, followers of Jesus often struggle, then start falling short of the Lord’s glory, as they experience defeat, and encounter unnecessary shame as their results.

Constant revelation consistently brings us triumph because it always aligns us the followers of Jesus with the Lord’s perfect wisdom for every situation in life. The Holy Spirit then went on to broaden this understanding by revealing that revelation is the discovery by man of what the Lord already knows. It is the communication of heaven’s intelligence into the heart of a follower of Jesus which empowers us to triumph over life’s circumstances.

Since the Lord cannot fail, be defeated, hindered, or caught off guard, operating from His revealed knowledge enables us His followers to walk in His certainty about events and situations rather than viewing things from our human limitation. Revelation provides us access to the Lord’s hear perspective, which allows us Jesus’s followers to walk in divine wisdom rather than natural reasoning.

To enable us to unlock heavenly realities so they are manifested in our lives on earth. Revelation knowledge enables us to exercise Kingdom authority over circumstances to bring earthly situations into alignment with the Lord’s will. We are empowered to stop and overturn all evil operations of the enemy through heavenly insight which causes us to walk in triumph where human reasoning would predict defeat in our lives. The Holy Spirit emphasised that the authority Jesus entrusted to Peter flowed directly from the revelation he received from the Father.

Because Peter discovered what the Father had revealed, he was positioned to exercise Kingdom authority on earth, and the gates of Hades could not prevail against what had been revealed by the Lord to Peter. The Holy Spirit further explained that revelation is a discovery of something unknown. So just as every discovery introduces mankind to realities previously unknown, revelation introduces us the followers of Jesus to truths, solutions, strategies, and dimensions of Jesus’s Kingdom that were hidden until He chose to unveil them to us.

Every revelation opens a completely new sphere of possibility in our lives. It becomes an open door into light, which takes us the followers of Jesus from limitation into divine greatness because it originates with the Lord Himself. Through revelation, we begin experiencing realities that were previously inaccessible to us. This explains why the Apostle Paul continually prayed for us the followers of Jesus to receive the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of God (as seen in his prayers for the Ephesians and Colossians).

Paul understood that revelation is foundational for us succeeding in the Lord’s purposes and walking in the fullness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit encourages us as followers of Jesus to continually open our hearts to fresh discoveries from the Lord because every revelation we receive positions us Jesus’s people for victory, wisdom, supernatural success, and triumph, even in circumstances that appear impossible.

Paul’s own life illustrates this principle in detail because he continually received revelation from the Lord, so he could face severe adversity with unwavering confidence, declaring that no circumstance could move him from what the Lord had revealed to him. He remained convinced that events would ultimately unfold according to the Lord’s revealed purpose and that he would “in nothing be ashamed.”

Time after time, situations aligned with what the Lord had revealed to him rather than what negative circumstances suggested. The Holy Spirit is calling for every follower of Jesus to seek ongoing revelation, by allowing divine discoveries to replace our uncertainty with confidence, our complexities with clarity, our weakness with divine strength, and impossible situations with supernatural triumph.

As we the followers of Jesus receive and walk in what the Lord reveals, we enter the place prepared for us by the Father which encompasses realities beyond human comprehension, fulfilling the promise that “eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him,” yet these things are revealed by the Holy Spirit for the Lord’s people.

As followers of Jesus we are encouraged to expect continual new discoveries from the Holy Spirit, knowing that as we obey the revealed truth, situations will turn in our favour, divine wisdom will prevail over human reasoning, and we will walk in the victories and triumphs ordained by the Lord for our lives.

In the name of Jesus, I declare that your heart is open to receive fresh revelation from the Holy Spirit. May the Spirit of wisdom and revelation rest upon you in increasing measure, causing you to discover the thoughts, strategies, and purposes of the Father for every area of your life. I declare that every veil of confusion, daily limitation, and human reasoning is removed from your life, and that divine insight becomes your advantage.

May hidden treasures of wisdom be revealed, so that impossible situations yield to heavenly solutions, and every gate of opposition fails to prevail against the revelation the Lord entrusts to you. As you walk in what the Holy Spirit reveals, may you move from uncertainty into confidence, from complexity into clarity, and from defeat into abiding triumph.

May your life become a testimony of the Lord’s wisdom, power, and faithfulness, as you walk in the glorious realities that He has prepared for those who love Him in Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.

During my communion time with the Holy Spirit, He spoke in detail of how corrects His people through edifying words rather than words of condemnation. The Holy Spirit like Jesus does not ever condemn us but rather saves us. His purpose is always our restoration, our spiritual growth, and maturity rather than shame and disgrace. The Holy Spirit desires that His pattern of correction for us becomes a pathway back into deeper fellowship with the Lord rather than an occasion for discouragement.

This pattern is seen throughout the ministry of Jesus. Jesus frequently used parables to expose faulty mindsets and wrong patterns of thinking. So rather than condemning people outright, He presented truth in a way that allowed individuals to recognise their own errors, so they could repent willingly, and make the necessary adjustments for their lives. The Lord’s greater concern is always that His people move forward into His purposes instead of remaining trapped in the guilt over the past mistakes, especially after they have learned the lessons His correction was intended to teach us.

The Holy Spirit continually seeking to reveal the true condition of our hearts because He wants us to understand what motivates our actions, and why we continue to yield to certain influences that harm us, and to have clarity as to what lies beneath our decisions. Genuine freedom comes when we acknowledge the truth about ourselves, by taking ownership of our mistakes, and allowing the Holy Spirit to correct them in us by uprooting them from the hidden parts of our hearts. As Jesus taught, it is the truth we know that makes us free, and true liberty only comes through us owning and embracing that truth.

To illustrate this principle more vividly, the Holy Spirit directed my attention to the life of King Jehoshaphat, by presenting his life as an example of how refusing to fully embrace correction can cause someone to lose out on the Lord’s best plan for their lives despite the fact that they have lived an otherwise uncompromising righteous life. In 2 Chronicles 19:1–3, after Jehoshaphat allied himself with King Ahab and accompanied him into battle, the prophet (seer) confronted him with the Lord’s rebuke for siding with an enemy.

The Lord declared that Jehoshaphat had helped one who hated the Lord and His ways, and because of this alliance with haters of God, the Lord’s wrath was stirred against him. Although the prophet also acknowledged the good Jehoshaphat had done, the warning required genuine repentance and a decisive turning away from these ungodly alliances. The Holy Spirit emphasised an important lesson to us as followers of Jesus that we must never allow the recognition of our good works in past events to lessen our urgency of responding to the Lord’s present correction.

The Lord always examines the intentions and motives of our hearts, and it is these that ultimately determine the outcome of a person’s life. Jehoshaphat failed to make the necessary adjustment towards the Lord after receiving this warning, and the unfortunate consequences gradually unfolded in his life. Later, in 2 Chronicles 20:35–37, Jehoshaphat again entered into partnership with another king from Ahab’s family, one whom the Lord likewise regarded as wicked.

Once again, a prophet warned him that because he had allied himself with those opposed to the Lord, the Lord would destroy the work he had undertaken. His ships were subsequently destroyed before accomplishing their purpose, demonstrating the loss through the consequences of repeated compromise.

The Holy Spirit then traced through the long-term effects of this refusal to heed correction. In 2 Chronicles 21:3–4, after Jehoshaphat’s death, his son Jehoram became king and murdered all his brothers, despite the generous inheritance and honourable treatment Jehoshaphat had previously given them. I encourage you to study 2 Chronicles 20–21 together with 1 Kings 15–22 to understand the complete historical picture of this tragic loss of life and inheritance of a man who walked righteously over many years but was found in compromise with an enemy he believed was his brother.

The Holy Spirit highlighted that the issue was not simply Jehoshaphat’s relationships from a human perspective but his willingness to work with haters of God or unwillingness to align his thinking with the Lord’s perspective of people even after he received clear cut correction on the matter.

Human reasoning and natural loyalties do not determine our spiritual outcomes, it is the Lord’s evaluation of truth alone that brings us triumph. The repeated alliances with those the Lord identified as wicked people opened the door to the destructive consequences within Jehoshaphat’s own household.

This fact raises a sobering question for us as followers of Jesus about how a man known for righteousness goes on to experience such a tragedy within his own family, while Ahab’s wicked family initially appeared united? The Holy Spirit explains that the answer lies in us intermingling with evil and refusing to repent when the Lord clearly exposes our compromise. Jehoshaphat’s unwillingness to respond fully to prophetic correction ultimately resulted in his legacy marked by death rather than the blessings that should have accompanied his righteousness.

The Holy Spirit then connected this principle with Numbers 25:1–4, recalling Balaam’s strategy given to Balak to hurt Israel. Since Israel could not be defeated through direct opposition, compromise through intermingling with ungodliness became the means by which destruction entered. This remains a timeless warning that compromise with what the Lord calls evil weakens our spiritual inheritance and opens the door to unnecessary loss in our lives.

As followers of Jesus we are urged to pause (“Selah”) and seriously consider this truth concerning intermingling to ensure we are not guilty in yielding to it in our lives. We are called to obey the Holy Spirit regardless of all natural appearances, personal loyalties, emotional attachments, or persuasive appeals from others. When the Lord exposes error, we must immediately repent and take the necessary decisive action are required to be restored back into fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Our excuses based on family ties, friendships, or feelings of obligation must never override our obedience to the Lord’s voice.

The Holy Spirit also warns us as followers of Jesus to exercise discernment in all our relationships and acts of assistance we do towards others. There are situations where people may sincerely praise, flatter, or urgently seek help, yet our supporting of them may place us in opposition to the Lord’s purposes in that circumstance. Helping those whom the Lord has warned us against may appear compassionate from a human standpoint but can result in compromising one’s own spiritual inheritance and losing rewards the Lord had prepared for us to inherit.

This message concludes with an exhortation found in 2 John 8 which reads these words: “Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.” This verse serves as both a warning and an encouragement for us to remain vigilant, by embracing the Lord’s correction wholeheartedly, and persevering in our total obedience to His commands so that every reward the Lord has prepared for us will be fully inherited.

In the mighty name of Jesus, I declare that the Holy Spirit is increasing your sensitivity to His loving correction and giving you a heart that readily embraces truth without any resistance or excuse. May every hidden motive, misplaced loyalty, and subtle compromise be exposed by His light so that you may repent quickly and walk fully in His will.

I declare that you shall not lose your inheritance, or your reward, or the purposes and plans the Lord has prepared for your life through ignorance, misplaced compassion, or ungodly alliances. The Lord will grant you wisdom to discern every relationship, every partnership, and every opportunity according to His perspective rather than natural reasoning.

May the grace to respond immediately when the Holy Spirit speaks rest upon your life. Where compromise has existed, may repentance bring complete restoration. Where the enemy has sought to rob you through deception or intermingling with what opposes the Lord’s purposes, may every snare be broken and every pathway be realigned with the will of the Lord.

I declare that you shall walk circumspectly, guarded by the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, preserving everything the Lord has entrusted to you. You shall receive your full reward, by fulfilling your divine assignment without unnecessary loss, and finish your course in faithfulness, thus bringing glory to Jesus Christ in every season of your life.

May the Holy Spirit establish you in unwavering obedience, by preserving your household, strengthening your discernment, and leading you continually in the paths of righteousness for His Name’s sake in Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.

This message starts from my communion time with the Holy Spirit, the when He spoke to me about the importance of us fully embracing the truth. Although this subject is familiar to me, the Holy Spirit was looking to expand my understanding of this principle by revealing to me what it truly means to embrace the truth and what that demands from us as followers of Jesus.

The Holy Spirit directed me to examine carefully the dictionary definition of the word “embrace,” rather than to rely on my common knowledge of the word, which revealed several rich meanings I did not know the word encompassed.

Firstly it means to put one’s arms around and hold tightly; to surround or cover closely; to take up readily or gladly; to avail oneself of; to include as part of a greater whole; to be equivalent to; and to hold someone closely against one’s chest as an expression of affection. These definitions became a clear spiritual picture of how we as Jesus’s followers should respond to every revelation the Lord gives us.

The Holy Spirit went on to explain that this is precisely how we are to respond to the truths He reveals to us as revelation is never meant to be treated casually or forgotten quickly. Instead, it should be held tightly, treasured, and allowed to dominate our thinking, reshape our emotions, transform our beliefs, and become the prevailing reality within our hearts and minds until it produces obedient action from us. Just as a close embrace with a trusted friend leaves a lasting impression because of its depth and intimacy, so every revelation from the Holy Spirit should have a profound impact upon our lives.

Truth is not merely given as something for us to admire intellectually but something we should cling to until it changes they way we live and operate in life. The Holy Spirit further emphasised how every definition of “embrace” involves an action, not just merely a thought. This became the central lesson of the conversation strengthening the fact that everything the Holy Spirit speaks requires a corresponding response on our part. The Holy Spirit does not present hypothetical suggestions or optional ideas for us to try out.

Every word He speaks is intended to be acted upon by us so that it becomes manifest in our lives. This truth is perfectly illustrated in James 2:17, where we are told that faith without corresponding action is declared dead. I also encourage all followers of Jesus to read and meditate James chapters 1 and 2 together to fully appreciate the Holy Spirit’s emphasis on the reality that genuine faith always produces obedient action on our part. Likewise, Jesus taught us clearly that love for Him is always demonstrated through our obedience, and not just merely our verbal profession.

In John 14:15, Jesus said, “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” Meaning that love is always expressed by doing what the Lord says rather than merely speaking about it. The Holy Spirit then drew m attention to another definition of the word embrace which is to take up readily or gladly and avail oneself of what has been spoken. This means us willingly laying aside our previous understanding, opinions, traditions, or reasoning whenever the Holy Spirit reveals greater truth for us to walk in.

Embracing truth requires us surrendering our old ways of thinking and gladly accepting the Lord’s higher more comprehensive perspective, even when it challenges the long-held beliefs we have relied on. Jesus Himself modelled this attitude perfectly. In John 5:30, Jesus declared that He acted only upon what He heard from the Father, thus refusing to operate from His own desires or independent will. His complete surrender became the pattern every follower of His is called to follow.

The Holy Spirit then reminded me of Jesus’ promise in John 16:12–15, where the Holy Spirit was sent to guide us into all truth. This means the Holy Spirit will continually unfold greater dimensions of the truth already contained within Scripture, to enable us to understand more clearly, in order to obey promptly, and successfully walk in the Lord’s present purposes. Spiritual maturity therefore requires our continual openness to fresh illumination rather than remaining bound by our past understanding. To illustrate this principle, the Holy Spirit highlighted Peter’s encounter with Cornelius in Acts 10.

Peter had been raised under Jewish tradition, believing that Jews should never enter the homes of Gentiles or eat with them, despite him observing Jesus minister freely among people outside accepted religious boundaries. Before Peter could fulfil the Lord’s assignment to Cornelius, the Holy Spirit first had to transform Peter’s understanding by using a trance to open his heart. Through the vision of the sheet lowered from heaven, Peter repeatedly resisted the Lord’s instruction, refusing three times because of his deeply rooted religious convictions.

Yet the Lord firmly corrected him, by declaring that “What God has cleansed you must not call common or unclean.” Eventually Peter embraced this new revelation and obeyed the Holy Spirit’s instruction to go without doubting to Cornelius’ house. Although Peter initially introduced himself by acknowledging his previous prejudice, Cornelius responded with humility rather than offence. As Peter preached in his home, something extraordinary occurred: the Holy Spirit fell upon everyone gathered in Cornelius’ home, just as He had upon the apostles on the Day of Pentecost.

Peter was so astonished by this unmistakable demonstration of the Lord’s acceptance of the Gentiles and declared emphatically that no one could forbid them from being baptised in water since they had clearly received the Holy Spirit just as the Jewish believers had. This entire breakthrough became possible because Peter chose to embrace the greater truth the Holy Spirit revealed to him instead of remaining confined by previous religious understanding he had.

In addition, this message also notes the resistance Peter later faced when fellow believers learned that he had entered a Gentile’s house. Their criticism could easily have discouraged him, but Peter patiently explained to them how the Holy Spirit Himself had orchestrated the whole event in the home of Cornelius. As they heard the testimony of what the Lord had done, their own hearts were transformed, and they too embraced the Lord’s expanding Kingdom purpose which He had declared in John.10:16.

From this example we can see the Holy Spirit call to us the followers of Jesus today to move beyond the limitations of our past experiences, traditions, and religious bias. He desires His people to enter the new sphere of glory He has prepared, as we embrace with boldness every fresh revelation He gives us so that His Kingdom may continue expanding throughout the earth. As followers of Jesus we are warned not to hinder the full scope of the Lord’s harvest by refusing to move forward with the Holy Spirit.

Instead, we are called to say “yes” to His leading, thus allowing Him to bring in the harvest of souls for whom Jesus died and to accomplish His ancient purposes in this present generation. This message concludes with an exhortation for us to embrace every grace the Holy Spirit is releasing, by responding with boldness and courage, so we walk faithfully with Him. As we Jesus’s followers obey His voice, we will witness extraordinary marvels accomplished through our lives as the Lord fulfils His eternal plans through us and reveals His glory for the world to behold.

In the mighty name of Jesus, I declare that the Holy Spirit is enlarging your capacity to embrace His truth with wholehearted faith, humility, and obedience. May every revelation He releases to you become firmly established within your heart until it transforms your thinking, governs your emotions, shapes your decisions, and produces the necessary corresponding action that brings forth lasting fruit.

I declare that every religious limitation, inherited bias, traditional mindset, and old pattern of thinking that has restrained your progress shall be broken off you by the light of the Lord’s unfolding truth. May you willingly lay aside every former understanding whenever the Holy Spirit reveals greater dimensions of His purpose to you, and may your heart remain teachable before Him.

May the grace to obey immediately accompany every word the Holy Spirit speaks to you. Just as Peter moved beyond his former understanding to witness the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon Cornelius’ household, may you also enter new spheres of revelation, ministry, and Kingdom fruitfulness that surpass your previous experience.

I declare that you shall not resist the leading of the Holy Spirit, but you shall boldly say, “Yes, Holy Spirit,” and walk wherever He leads you. Through your obedience, may barriers be removed, harvests be gathered, lives be transformed, and the Kingdom of Jesus be greatly expanded through your life.

This message begins with the Holy Spirit calling for us the followers of Jesus to intentionally compile, preserve, and record everything the Holy Spirit has taught you throughout your journey with Him.

The lessons you have learned, the victories you have won, the complex battles you have overcome, the needy corrections you have received, and the deeper unfolding revelations you gained are not intended to remain as just your personal experiences alone but are to become a lasting testimony that strengthens future generations of followers of Jesus.

The Holy Spirit emphasised the fact that these personal testimonies which established your Kingdom mandate have provided the necessary practical guidance and hope for others who are facing similar spiritual warfare conflicts, confusion, delays, disappointments, and unanswered questions.

Many followers of Jesus have struggled moving forward simply because they have never encountered someone who has successfully navigated the same path they are presently walking.

Therefore, those who have walked through difficult seasons successfully with the guidance of the Holy Spirit and emerged victorious and triumphant possess a trustworthy pathway that can encourage and instruct others toward their triumph in Christ.

As followers of Jesus we are encouraged to diligently gather systematically the patterns and strategies they gleaned to share everything the Holy Spirit has worked in them without fear or hesitation. We should not hide our former failures, weaknesses, mistakes, disappointments, or seasons of struggle. Instead, we should openly testify how the Holy Spirit faithfully led us through those tricky, uncomfortable circumstances after we humbled ourselves, repented, and returned to the Lord in the fiercest of battles in the mind.

Rather than allowing our weaknesses to make us appear vulnerable to others, these testimonies become powerful instruments of healing because they reveal that the Lord’s strength is often most clearly manifested in our human weakness. Unfortunately countless followers of Jesus have lived under the crushing weight of condemnation because they believe their past failures have permanently disqualified them from usefulness in the Lord’s Kingdom.

The enemy has used shame, guilt, and accusation to paralyse their progress and convince them that they can never recover and come out of the pit to fulfil the Lord’s purpose for their lives. The Holy Spirit wants these lies to be broken off by the testimony of those whom He has restored from similar trials. As followers of Jesus openly share how the Lord miraculously brought them out of failure into places of triumph, they become living proof that repentance before the Lord restores fellowship and that the Lord’s grace remains greater than our human weakness.

This message points to the triumph in the life of Peter as a powerful example. Peter’s failure of faith did not become the end of his calling. Instead, Jesus restored him and transformed his greatest weakness into a foundation from which he would strengthen, encourage, and build the Lord’s people. Peter’s restoration which is demonstrated from Acts.3 demonstrates the fact that failure does not disqualify those who genuinely return to the Lord.

The Holy Spirit then spoke by way of remembrance through Romans 8:28 to us the followers of Jesus, that all things work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose. This means that the Lord possesses the wisdom and power to redeem even the darkest, most painful, and most disappointing events of life, by transforming what the enemy intended for shame and disgrace into a testimony that glorifies Christ.

The life of Joseph in Genesis serves as a profound illustration of this truth. When Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery to the Ishmaelites, no one could have imagined that this act of betrayal would position him to become the ruler of Egypt during one of history’s greatest famines. The Lord used the very wickedness intended to destroy Joseph as the means of placing him exactly where his divine destiny required him to be. Through Joseph’s obedience and relationship with the Lord, an entire generation was preserved from starvation, and countless lives were saved.

The Holy Spirit highlighted another remarkable truth from Joseph’s story. Upon arrival in Egypt, Joseph was described as a prosperous man because the Lord was with him, despite possessing no earthly wealth and in the ownership of the heathen. This reveals a vital Kingdom principle that true prosperity is not measured primarily by our present financial resources but by the abiding presence of the Lord in our lives. Having the Lord with us is infinitely greater than just possessing money without His presence.

To further substantiate this principle let me share a personal testimony of what I received from the Lord while ministering in Nigeria. During a season when the enemy relentlessly accused me regarding the mistakes I made, the poor decisions I made , and being in the wrong place at the wrong time, the Lord revealed to me a liberating truth that the Lord does not primarily judge the events that happen in our lives but He looks at the intent and posture of our hearts within those events.

This revelation brought tremendous freedom to me from condemnation because the enemy had used my past mistakes, misplaced circumstances, and uncertainty to attack my confidence in answered prayer and fellowship with the Lord.

However, when the Lord revealed that His evaluation of our lives is based upon the heart’s genuine desire to follow Him rather than upon every circumstance beyond one’s control. This truth brought lasting deliverance, restored my confidence before the Lord, strengthened my communion with the Holy Spirit, and established an unwavering assurance of answers in prayer.

To illustrate this further, the Holy Spirit pointed to the birth of Jesus. Joseph and Mary did not determine where Jesus would be born through their own planning. Rather, Caesar’s decree for a census required them to travel to Bethlehem regardless of Mary’s pregnancy. Human government determined the circumstances, yet the Lord sovereignly used those circumstances to fulfil His prophetic purpose so Jesus was born in Bethlehem as prophesied. This demonstrated that even though many events lie under human control, the Lord still remains fully able to accomplish His will through them.

This message concludes with a prayer that every follower of Jesus would receive the abundant grace necessary to rise above every condemning voice the enemy has used to hinder, delay, or stop the manifestation of the Lord’s promises in your life. Just as these truths brought lasting freedom and victory to me, the Holy Spirit desires to release the same liberty to every follower of Jesus who receives this word, to enable you to walk confidently with Him and fulfil His divine purpose and plan for your life.

I declare in the mighty name of Jesus that every testimony the Holy Spirit has written into your life shall become a source of life, hope, wisdom, and encouragement to many. The Lord shall cause your victories, restorations, and even your former failures to be redeemed by His grace to become instruments of equipment that strengthen countless believers walking similar paths.

I declare that every voice of condemnation, accusation, guilt, shame, and regret that has hindered your confidence before the Lord is broken off by the truth of His Word. You shall no longer live beneath the weight of your past mistakes but you shall walk in the liberty of Christ, knowing that His grace is greater than your weakness and His mercy triumphs over every failure you have surrendered to Him.

May the promise of Romans 8:28 become a living reality in your life as the Lord causes every circumstance in your life whether joyful or painful to work together for His glory and your good. Just as He positioned Joseph through betrayal and fulfilled His purposes through circumstances beyond human control, so shall He sovereignly arrange every detail of your life to bring you into the destiny He ordained for you before the foundation of the world.

I declare that your confidence in the Lord shall continually increase. You shall know that the Lord’s presence is your greatest prosperity, His favour is your greatest inheritance, and His fellowship your greatest treasure. Every accusation that seeks to weaken your confidence in prayer shall be silenced, and you shall approach the throne of grace with boldness, assurance, and unwavering faith.

May abundant grace rest upon you to record, remember, and proclaim all that the Holy Spirit has done in your life. Your testimony shall glorify Jesus, by strengthening His Church, rescuing the discouraged, restoring the fallen, and revealing of the fact that the Lord’s redemptive power is able to transform every failure into a testimony of triumph in Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.

This word begins with heartfelt thanksgiving for the immeasurable gift of the Holy Spirit, who faithfully serves as our divine Mentor, Coach, Helper, and Teacher. His constant desire is to work alongside every follower of Jesus until we fully inherit every promise from the Lord and walk in the complete victory and abundance that Jesus purchased for us through His death and resurrection.

The Holy Spirit is wholly committed to our spiritual growth, by working with us to ensure that we become partakers of the divine nature and experience the full potency of the Lord’s power working in and through our lives for the glory of Jesus.The privilege for us of being chosen by Jesus to be His disciples is one of heaven’s greatest gifts.

Jesus has not left us His followers without guidance but has provided a complete spiritual curriculum through the Holy Spirit that enables us to walk triumphantly in everything that pertains to our life and godliness. Therefore, as Jesus’s followers we are encouraged to pause, then worship, and continually thank the Lord for the indescribable gift of the Holy Spirit, who causes us to triumph in all things and manifest the fragrance of the knowledge of God wherever we go.

The Holy Spirit then drew my attention to 2 Corinthians 2:14, where the Apostle Paul declares that the Lord “always leads us in triumph in Christ.” I recall the first time I saw this scripture and asked the Lord how Paul could make such a declaration immediately after describing a situation where he had just missed an opportunity to minister freely in an arena the Lord had opened up for him because he said he found no rest in his spirit and therefore departed from the open door.

The Holy Spirit used that question to explain a profound truth to me that the Lord had indeed led Paul into the place of triumph, but Paul himself was the person who did not fully walk out that opportunity. Therefore, the failure was never in the leading of the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit always leads us into triumph in Christ, but we must cooperate with His leading through surrender and obedience if we are to experience the victory He has already prepared.

This revelation became a lifelong encouragement and assurance to me that the Lord never fails to show up on our behalf. It is our responsibility as followers of Jesus to execute our part to do what He said and not to manufacture a supposed victory but to cooperate with the Holy Spirit by yielding to Him, trusting Him, and then walking in step with His direction. As followers of Jesus we must remain surrendered to Him, in order for His triumph to become our continual portion in all different life situations.

The Holy Spirit then reminded us as followers of Jesus of the truth found in Ephesians 2:10, which declares that we are the Lord’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works that the Lord prepared beforehand for us to walk in. Therefore every follower of Jesus has been divinely designed with a unique Kingdom purpose already established by the Lord with a clear blueprint which has been created for us to live out here on the earth.

The call from the Holy Spirit is therefore for us to intentionally walk in those prepared works every day, as we remain quick to repent whenever sin, error, or distraction causes us to deviate from the Lord’s intended path. We must always remember that restoration is always available through genuine repentance because the Lord’s desire is to continually bring His people back into His ordained purpose for our lives.

There is no greater privilege we have on earth than to become exactly what the Lord created us to be. As we the followers of Jesus surrender ourselves to Him, we will experience His own life working within us, to empower both our desire and the granting us the supernatural ability to accomplish His purposes for His pleasure and glory.

The Holy Spirit further connected this truth with Jesus’ promise in John 14:12, where Jesus declared that His followers would do the very works that He did and even greater works. Ephesians 2:10 reveals how this becomes a practical reality in our lives through the daily working of the Holy Spirit within the hearts of His loyal followers.

The miracles, signs, wonders, acts of compassion, and Kingdom works that the Lord prepared in advance are accomplished as we His followers simply yield ourselves to His divine enablement working in us. This is an extraordinary privilege that Jesus and the Father have bestowed on us which we should not take for granted. The Lord desires to perform His miracles through ordinary people who have surrendered themselves to His Spirit.

Such participation is never a result of our human ability or personal merit but solely because the Lord imparts His grace and power to accomplish His purposes through willing vessels as Peter declared in Acts.3:12. Because of the reality of the grace of God at work, there is absolutely no room for pride or self-exaltation in us. Every accomplishment the Lord works through us belongs to the Lord because every work originated from Him downloaded to us by His grace.

So our proper response is one of continual worship, gratitude, and thanksgiving who has qualified us to be partakers of His nature and glory. The Holy Spirit therefore directs us as followers of Jesus to Hebrews 13:15, which encourages us to continually offer up to Him the sacrifice of praise which is the fruit of lips that continually give thanks to His name.

The Lord desires our mouths to be filled with thanksgiving and praise rather than complaints, murmuring, unbelief, or negative confession. As followers of Jesus we are called to continually honour, revere, and celebrate all that Jesus has accomplished through His redemption of us, by our recognising both the glorious inheritance already secured for us when He rose from the grave to be seated at the right hand of the Father in glory and the greater future the Lord has prepared for us.

This revelation concludes through the Holy Spirit urging us as Jesus’s followers to rest our hope fully in the reality of the Lord’s divine loyal love and completed work on our behalf. We are invited to surrender every area of our lives to the government of the Holy Spirit, by allowing Him to transform our nature and character to complete conformity to the image of Christ reigning completely in us so that He may faithfully bring us into the glorious destiny Jesus has already secured for us to execute on earth.

I declare in the mighty name of Jesus that you shall increasingly recognise and embrace the wonderful ministry of the Holy Spirit as your faithful Mentor, Teacher, Helper, and Guide. May your heart continually yield to His leading, and may you never resist the pathway of triumph He has prepared for you.

I declare that every good work ordained for your life before the foundation of the world shall be fulfilled as you walk in complete obedience to the Holy Spirit. You shall not come short of your divine assignment, but you shall walk fully in the works the Lord prepared for you, thus bringing glory to the name of Jesus through your life.

May the grace of the Lord continually empower you to perform His will, manifest His Kingdom, and become a vessel through whom miracles, signs, wonders, and acts of divine compassion flow. I declare that every temptation to boast in yourself shall be replaced with humble gratitude as you recognise that every victory you have is the fruit of God’s grace working through you.

I declare that praise shall continually fill your mouth, thanksgiving shall strengthen your faith, and complaint shall lose its place in your life. You shall increasingly rest in the finished work of Christ, confidently trusting the Holy Spirit to lead you into every promise and every prepared work that belongs to you by inheritance.

May the Holy Spirit reign in you without hindrance over every area of your life, bringing you from glory to glory until you fully inherit everything Jesus purchased for you. You shall continually walk in triumph, manifesting the fragrance of the knowledge of Christ wherever you go, and glorify His precious name all the days of your life in Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.