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This morning in my communion time with the Holy Spirit He reinforced the concept of positioning our hearts to listen carefully to what the Spirit is saying so we follow correctly and obey only what He has spoken. In Mark.4:24725 we read these words of caution from Jesus Then He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given. 25 For whoever has, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.”

The strong emphasis of Jesus after having explained the parable of the sower to His disciples and how the heart operates in working out the process of the Kingdom. Jesus proceeds to again give this warning about listening carefully and understanding what has been said. This is to ensure that your obedience will be based on real clarity of what was said rather than presumption.

We all assume that because the Lord has spoken something to us we know exactly what to do. However the reality is that we need to process the facts through our minds, wills, emotions and intellects before we can take action and that is the place we stumble and follow what we want rather than what God says because that is easier to swallow. Inside our minds are preconceived thoughts and imaginations and vain high things which seek to exalt themselves above the knowledge of God.

We see this worked out in the Apostles to such a degree that in Acts.1:4-8 they are in complete delusion as to the task they will need to follow and Jesus has to correct their thought pattern completely. And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me; 5 for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” 6 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. 8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Let us just look at the difference of opinions and thoughts they have from Jesus. When did Jesus ever tell them that He was appointing them to take over the rule of the twelve tribes of Israel and over Caesar’s rule by physical strength and natural force. Where and how did they hear these things!

Obviously from their imaginations and the high prideful thoughts they had been listening to, (which Jesus always cautioned them on not wanting to be the greatest), when Jesus spoke words of the Kingdom to them. In that confusion of mind they conceived that Jesus was now going to restore the Kingdom to Israel and would still be waiting for that to happen because it is yet to come to pass.

This would have meant they missed out on reaching the world for Jesus and all the miracles, signs and wonders God had prepared for them to do, waiting presumptuously for something that would never happen in their lifetime.

Watch closely how Jesus dispels the lying thoughts they have been incubating and repositions them back to reality so they can be fruitful in the now of life. Forget about times and seasons God has set for things to happen in their appointed time and get yourselves ready to receive power from the Holy Spirit to be witnesses of Jesus to a dying world.

Get into a secluded time of prayer and oneness with the Holy Spirit by waiting on the Lord to get direction and the necessary power of the Holy Spirit that will affect the lives of people in various nations. We need to be ready to wait on the Lord so our strength can be renewed and we can go forth on the wind of the Holy Spirit rather than our natural ability that accomplishes nothing.

Jesus in order to become effective took a time of fasting and prayer in the wilderness forty days and returned from that secluded time in the power of the Holy Spirit and His fame went abroad. It is in the wilderness that we prepare the way of the Lord and make straight paths for Him to come on in our lives.

You cannot listen if you are always doing. This is why it is so important for us to be still so we can get to know who God is. We need to still our racing and presumptuous thoughts and imaginations and line up with what the Holy Spirit is saying.

You find that in the revelation Jesus gives to John in the book of revelation to each Church no matter how well they were doing the requirement for each church was he who has an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying and change and line up with that truth if you are to progress further in the things of the Kingdom.

Jesus is in effect saying listen carefully to what I am saying and change direction and follow Me not what you have been doing and you now think is God and He cannot possibly be saying anything different because that is what you believe is God and no more.

That is deception and you are already backslidden because in the Kingdom of Jesus we never become the leader but remain followers so we do not determine the path forward but need to listen to the Master so we know how and where to follow Him to go accomplish His will.

Let me conclude this time with you by sharing about the life of Philip the deacon in Acts and how the Holy Spirit works with him to accomplish the will of Jesus in various places as Philip surrenders to His leading.

In Acts.8:4-8 we see the inception of the ministry of Philip Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them. 6 And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. 7 For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed; and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed. 8 And there was great joy in that city. Under the leading of the Holy Spirit Philip takes Samaria for Jesus single handedly and just look at the results. Startling!!!

Going on in Acts.8:14&15 we see the Apostles who Jesus had spoken to about the harvest being ready there in samaria in John.4 so why were they not there much earlier to have taken the harvest. Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, 15 who, when they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit.

Just look at the Holy Spirit progression in the life of Philip as we move further in Acts.8:26-30 Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is desert. 27 So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to worship, 28 was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he was reading Isaiah the prophet. 29 Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Go near and overtake this chariot.” 30 So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

Philip is willing to leave such a mighty harvest in Samaria to go to the desert to reach one man. This ends up bringing the gospel into Africa. What a wonder what single obedience to the Holy Spirit will give you. Philip is so focused on listening to the Holy Spirit more than what he had gained in Samaria and readies himself to move fast to reach this Ethiopian on the way from Jerusalem to answer his question and have him baptized in the Holy Spirit and start a new walk as he went back to Africa having received the truth of the Kingdom from Philip.

After this event we see the Holy Spirit move Philip in Acts.8:38-40 So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him. 39 Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing. 40 But Philip was found at Azotus. And passing through, he preached in all the cities till he came to Caesarea.

This movement that happened with Philip after the baptism of the Eunuch of being caught in the Spirit or translated into a different place supernaturally only happened because Philip chose to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit to leave Samaria and go to a desert place.

What if Philip had said there is no way I am leaving a mass crusade success campaign to go to a desert to reach what. I rebuke you satan. Philip however knew the voice of the Holy Spirit and was listening to the direction the Holy Spirit wanted him to follow and because he made himself available to listen and obey we have these miraculous signs happen which we can learn from and imbibe in our walk with the Lord. This is so we can experience the miraculous in our lives also.

My prayer for you this morning is that as you hear these words you will be convicted by the Holy Spirit to repent and turn from not prioritizing listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit but, listening to and following your thoughts which have ended you in pits.

You will receive the grace supplied you in these words as you receive them to make the change and begin again to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit and experience all the miraculous happenings of the Holy Spirit guided life which is full of signs, wonders and miracles to clearly make known the Kingdom of Jesus for men to witness and marvel which brings glory to the name of Jesus. Amen.

Have a fruitful and productive day in Jesus name. Amen.

This morning in my communion time with the Holy Spirit He reminded me that our hearts need to permit the word of the Lord to dwell richly in us. He pointed out to me the differences between having the word in you in different levels and the level of impact where the word of the Lord has a place to dwell in our hearts determines the results that word will have in our outcomes in life.

If the word of the Lord dwells poorly in our hearts then we can expect to receive poor results that impact nothing because our hearts cannot process being rich. Let me go on now and share the meat of what the Holy Spirit re-emphasized to me about allowing the word of the Lord to dwell richly in our lives.

In Colossians.3:16&17 we read these words which came to the Apostle Paul by revelation Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

These thoughts expressed in words by the apostle Paul are not just words that he made up to impress his hearers. They are words that Paul received by revelation through the Holy Spirit which were worked into the fabric of Paul’s life and heart and had been tested in his walk with the Lord and proved to be effective, life giving, productive and fruitful.

I am setting the tone for you here so that as you receive these words and embrace them you are conscious of the power that resides in them and you can then let them have the foremost place of authority in your daily walk so you can reap the full benefit of the righteous fruit they will produce for you.

One more reminder about the revelation Paul received from the Lord and why we need to understand its importance from Galatians.1:15-17 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, 16 to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.

These truths were not only revealed to Paul but revealed in Paul’s heart so they were worked out in his life before he started preaching them. They were practical lessons not theoretical untested words.

So when the Apostle Paul says let the word of Christ dwell richly in you in all wisdom, he is firstly pointing out that you have to make the choice to permit the word to dwell in you richly. How you respond to the word will determine how it dwells in you.

Now it is the word of Christ that Paul is speaking about here that is the office of Jesus as the anointed One. Let me share more on that aspect of Jesus’s life. Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit and power and then went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil.

Now the anointing is the burden-removing, yoke destroying, world overcoming, barrier- breaking, always triumphing power of God working on your behalf and this is what Paul is saying we should allow to dwell or live richly in our hearts with all wisdom to steward it correctly.

When you are rich in something you have an abundance which can be used lavishly because there is plenty to spare for any and every situation.

I have had where even at memorial services where on this particular event the Methodist Minister after I had read the scripture from John.14 came over to me and said I know you know the person you just read about and my faith was awakened as you read that passage and I am stirred back to pursue my walk with Him afresh as you read the scripture and He spoke to me again.

The Minister thanked me for letting the Lord use me to bless him. He was the officiating Minister for the service.

I was only attending my father’s brother’s memorial service after his passing. It was the word of Christ richly dwelling in me that brought life to that minister when he was to be bringing hope and comfort to the surviving relatives. He was energized and revived by the Holy Spirit and regained his relationship with the Lord.

This is why it is so important to allow the word of Christ to dwell richly in your heart. The word of Jesus the anointed One is potent and can do everything but how I respond to it will determine how it affects you. In Luke.5:17 we read these words Now it happened on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present to heal them.

They were listening to Jesus the anointed One teach but got nothing because they did not permit their hearts to let his word dwell in them and it was four outsiders who could not enter the house because of the crowd that climbed the roof and removed it. Then dropped the man in front of Jesus that got the miracle that raised him up and he walked out healed in the sight of all.

The Holy Spirit wants you to permit the word of Christ the anointed One to dwell richly in you in all wisdom so you can experience the anointing working in all areas of your life by removing burdens you ought not to be carrying.

Destroying yokes you have no business being tied to that weary and limit you moving forward and impede your spiritual advancement.

Overcoming all worldly events and things that keep you tied up in ways of death that choke out the word of life from bearing fruit in you and you become stagnant and fruitless.

How much more the working of the barrier breaking power of the Holy Spirit that propels you to go beyond any barrier or obstacle that seeks to hinder you achieving and accomplishing marvels that no eye has yet seen or imagined possible to happen.

This can truly be the reality in your life if you will receive these words to permit the word of the anointed One Jesus to dwell richly in you in all wisdom. There is grace available today for this process to begin operating in your life if only you say yes and give it the permission to take up residence in your heart and direct the course of your life.

Jairus allowed Jesus and His anointing to take over his life and though it drove away family members from his home, Jairus received his daughter back to life.

So take your stand this morning and give permission to the word of Christ to dwell and live in your heart richly and watch the new story of His miracle working hand make all things new in your life and circumstances and change the course of your story to become a testimony of glory for the name of Jesus. Amen.

This morning as I began my communion time with the Holy Spirit He asked me what are you considering today? I know by experience now that when the Holy Spirit asks me a question it is not because He does not know the answer and my heart on the issue.

It is because He wants me to identify where my heart is and what are the pressing things I am focused on and to help me make the right adjustments in my believing so I can receive everything He planned for me in the now and not come up short of what He has prepared for me by believing below what He intended. No more partial victories that have a bitter after taste, because they are short of triumph.

The Holy Spirit is never pleased when we come short of what has been promised us. He wants us to receive our full reward in God. 2 John.8 speaks these words of caution to us about our position in God: Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.

Whatever you need to change in your belief system as to what you think about God you need to do. This is to ensure that you stop coming short of the full reward God intended for you. Change your mind and refuse to walk short of what the Lord has promised you which you have worked for to this point and dig in deeper to go through to complete victory and triumph in the matter.

The Holy Spirit then brought back to me the scripture in Isaiah.51:1-3 “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, You who seek the Lord: Look to the rock from which you were hewn, And to the hole of the pit from which you were dug.2 Look to Abraham your father, And to Sarah who bore you; For I called him alone, And blessed him and increased him.”3 For the Lord will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the Lord; Joy and gladness will be found in it, Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

I know that when the Holy Spirit mentions a scripture on listening, I need to go back and make sure of what I heard. Do I understand the true import of what is being said and then position my heart to hear further, the details I may have missed out on in my excitement of receiving the word or just missed. Through this I am able to correctly position myself to hear again clearly what the Lord is saying so I can fully obey.

You see if you are a follower of righteousness which is truly what a follower of Jesus is because Jesus loves righteousness and hates lawlessness. So if you follow Jesus you must be a very keen listener to what He has to say because you are a follower not a leader.

Followers are completely dependent on the Person leading them so they need to be very attentive to what He is saying and not presume or assume on what He is actually saying.Jesus is completely in union with righteousness and walks in complete agreement and surrender to righteousness that flows from the Father which is the number one foundation of God’s throne.

Listen to the Holy Spirit and stop listening to your doubt, unbelief, fear, trepidation and contrary thoughts as you seek the Lord. Don’t seek the Lord believing you already know the answer, but willing to listen to what correction He wants and needs you to make to line up with Him. We will always need to be corrected to move on in God. “Settle that matter in your heart.”

Don’t look to your natural family heritage when you want and need to hear from the Lord. Look rather to and consider the place from where God your rock picked you up from and delivered you.

Look at His ability not your weakness because that is what you need to consider: the fact that nothing is impossible with God. You cannot consider what God did with Abraham and remain in doubt and unbelief so that is why the Lord points out to you to focus on that fact about how He God called him alone and blessed him and made him many.

In other words God increased one man and made him into a nation of men and that is exactly what He intends to do for you, but you must be willing to listen carefully and follow the Holy Spirit your leader.

Did Abraham know what God could do with his life when he started following the voice of God? No but he chose to follow step by step the voice of God and ended up where the Lord said He would be: A great nation because God was faithful to what He promised Abraham. Was Abraham perfect? Certainly not but He served a perfect God who could make him blameless before Him God and hence qualify him to experience what is humanly impossible and become the Father of our faith and nations.

Are you willing today as you have heard these words of life to take hold of the grace imparted through them to change position and again position yourself to listen over again to what thus saith the Holy Spirit to you and turn and follow the voice of the Lord back to the place of triumph through the signs, wonders and miracles which the Holy Spirit will perform to get you back on track with the will of God.

So stop listening to your doubts and start believing and only listening to what the Holy Spirit requires of you and that is complete trust in thus saith the Holy Spirit and stay in that position and refuse to move away no matter what rises up against that word. No human word or satan work and curse can change what thus saith the Lord.

This is why the enemy needs you to step out into doubt, fear and unbelief because if you remain in trust it will surely come to pass as God said it. He has to make you cooperate with the lie to steal the word from you as he did Peter on the water as he walked on it with Jesus. Jesus asked Peter why did you doubt? You started well and walked part of the way trusting the word I gave you to come so why did you now doubt because of the waves and the strong wind.

Don’t let anything move you from thus saith the Holy Spirit.

Make up your mind today and say I will no longer doubt the voice of the Holy Spirit but I will listen and follow till I reach the God expected end of triumph as I partake of His divine nature in my life occurrences going forward in Jesus name. Amen

The Holy Spirit this beautiful morning in our communion time shared with me more about His faithfulness towards me overriding my fragility, rather than how my weakness causes me to stumble. He reminded me that He is here to cover our backs and keep us from falling into temptation. He empowers us to walk in the grace He supplies to triumph in all things.

Jesus came so we could partake of all things that pertain to our lives and Godliness by His Divine power. We need to focus more on His ability to do than our failures.

This is an inheritance the Father has for us not because of our works, but because of His love for us by which He has adopted us as His own very children through the sacrifice of Jesus for us. Look at John.1:12&13 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

You will notice as you look at this scripture that nothing you did gave you this privilege to become a child of God, but the operation of the Holy Spirit that births you once you receive the promise God made through Jesus to give you that right by receiving His word declared to you.

Now let us go further into the faithfulness of God towards us which the Holy Spirit brought back to my attention this morning in fellowship time. In 1 Thessalonians.5:23&24 we read these life giving words expressed through the mouth of the Apostle Paul that assures us of God’s faithfulness towards us in the now. Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.

When the Holy Spirit first introduced this revelation to me He was pointing out to me the word “Now” and wanted me to step into that place of receiving in the “Now” what God had promised me. So step in with me into this reality for you in the now that the Holy Spirit wants for you to do and experience.

Yesterday I shared how Jesus sought to bring Martha into the now situation of life and see an awesome miracle or resurrection from the grave. Now may the God of peace Himself: that is Jesus the Prince of Peace, the King of peace, Person whose peace calmed the winds and storms and waves to absolute calm that startled the Disciples.

This Jesus Himself in all the characteristics of His peace sanctify you completely.”Total immersion into His peace overwhelming you.” Not demonic oppression overcoming you. You need to experience that part of the Lord in your life.The Peace of the Holy Spirit overwhelming and overshadowing your life and you entering God’s rest.

This means firstly to separate you from anything contrary to peace. All of it cut off from your life and existence. Then He sets you apart completely to everything that is His peace. Just pause a moment to thank the Lord for this reality and let it saturate your whole being, what the Lord has done for you.

When I realized that the Holy Spirit separated me from everything in the now that robs me of peace I knew my life would change and I would go on to experience the same peace Jesus walked in if only I yielded to that grace.

Let us look further at what this peace will do in your spirit, soul and body. God saved my spirit instantly but my soul which is my mind, my will, my emotions and my intellect are what have difficulties agreeing with God and need to be renewed daily to line up with this reality. We need to renew our minds daily to keep up to date with who we are in God and remember his faithfulness.

However Paul steps into this now moment in the Holy Spirit and points out that the Lord will preserve our minds, my wills, my emotions and our intellects blameless at the coming of the Lord Jesus.

This is not at the second coming of Jesus in the last day which Martha spoke of in the future, but Him manifesting Himself for us now as He pointed out in John.14:22&23 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

You see my brethren and sistren the Lord wants you preserved blameless till He comes in all aspects and areas of your life saturated by His peace which passes all understanding and guards your hearts and minds in the knowledge of Him. He comes to you in the now just as He came to the house of Jairus and changes things for you in a second.

Just feast on the conclusion of the statement “He is faithful who calls you who also will do it.” You are reliant on His faithfulness to do what He promised, not your wavering mind , emotions, will or intellect that constantly fail you. God will not break His covenant nor alter the word from His mouth but will fulfill His word to the letter as He pointed out to Abraham in Genesis.17:1&2 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless. 2 And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

Abraham went on to birth Issac even though He was 99 years old and Sarah was 90 years having been barren all her life. God preserved him blameless till he manifested the promise. That is the God you serve, He is faithful.

This is the reality the Holy Spirit wants you to see here that the Lord’s faithfulness will bring you to the point where you will birth the inheritance He has ordained for you by keeping you blameless before Him until He manifests what He promised you.

My prayer for you this morning is that as you hear these words your spirit will be reawakened to truth and you will embrace the grace being supplied to you by the Holy Spirit to come back into alignment with the will and purpose of God for your life and get back to the path God ordained for you, as you cease from roaming paths of death and failure and come into walking in the inheritance the Lord has reserved for you in this world.

May you walk in this renewed posture of the Holy Spirit and come into the full manifestation of God’s promise to you in the now of life in Jesus name. Amen.

This morning in my communion time with the Holy Spirit He pointed out to me that we need to stop walking at cross purposes with Him in matters of the Spirit. We always have a tendency to move situations to the future rather than deal with them in the now because that does not demand anything from us.

The Holy Spirit however wants us to place a demand on the God of the now rather later which never seems to come once we choose to wait for later. In the scripture the Holy Spirit brought to my heart this morning to meditate on and expect to walk in today I will share some of the things the Holy Spirit revealed to me that should free you from putting off for later what God wants to do in the now of your life.

In John.11:21-26 we read this discourse between Jesus and Martha and take note of how Martha answers Jesus 1 Now Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.”2Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”24 Martha said to Him, “I know that he will 3 rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

Martha firstly uses the excuse of Jesus not arriving on time to have stopped the unfortunate incident of Lazarus dying and blames Jesus for not caring. She offers Jesus no sacrifice of praise with her lips but complains with her lips and does not contemplate what miracle could happen if she just submitted to Jesus’s plan for today.

She knows better than that which she then blots out her mouth But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.”She has the church trained voice to speak words of faith as a cover up for doubt. If you believe that fact Martha then why do you stagger at what Jesus wants to do to prove that fact in your life?

This needs to be a question we all need to ask ourselves when we are faced with a challenge that requires an act of God on our behalf that demands action in the now. This is because what we choose to believe and do at that moment will determine what happens. I am so happy that Jesus only takes the words of faith we speak and ignores our failures.

He is the High Priest over the confession of our mouths when they line up with His will.Jesus takes the words and goes on to tell her His plan for today which is that your brother will rise again.

Martha again brings the future up by telling Jesus she knows her bible and what future events hold by saying I already know that in the last day we will all be raised up. Well Jesus was not dealing with the last day but with today so why was Martha not cooperating?

She had no faith for today and was about to fall prey to the word that “today when you hear His voice do not harden your heart”as in the day of rebellion when your fathers tempted God. If you harden your heart God can do nothing for you so it is important that we open our hearts to what the Holy Spirit is saying for today and change to line up with Him so we can experience what God wants to do.

Jesus wants to nail her to today and change her expectancy for the now and goes on to tell her these words: “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

You would have thought that after hearing these words Martha would just believe. Why did she not believe Jesus was the resurrection and the life? She was refusing to engage with the now moment of faith though Jesus kept pushing her to take a stand. I am resurrection now so expect to see resurrection manifested today.

Just look at her answer in verse 27 She said to Him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.” Jesus was not talking about coming into the world because He was already in the world and wanted to prove that reality to her that day but she kept using her knowledge of future scripture to rob her of the present moment of faith to receive in the now.

I want you to think on this matter with Martha and look at your life and ask yourself how many times have you done exactly what she did here and lost out on what God had planned for the day by excusing with scripture with future thoughts what you could have experienced in the now.

Martha fortunately goes on to see the miracle happen because her sister Mary has a different approach to Jesus and He can work with that and accomplish His will though she still butts in again when Jesus orders for the tomb to be opened and she talks about the smell of a dead body and Jesus has to rebuke her.

Well today the Holy Spirit wants you to look at what happened here with Martha and take care of those patterns in your life that rob you of God doing for you in the now. You don’t have a sister who can cover for your faults and make up the hedge for you so you have missed the opportunities and have gone on to blame the Lord for failing you. When in fact it was you who stumbled during the process just as Martha did and could not submit to the Holy Spirit’s leading.

Today is a new day and the Lord through these words wants to give you a fresh start again as you listen to them repent, turn and take fresh action of believing God to work in the now of life as grace is ministered to you to go beyond your doubts and fears to believing and receiving in the now.

May today mark the beginning of a new walk with the Holy Spirit of experiencing God working in the now of your life. Throw out all the excuses you have made to cover your doubts and embrace the faith for now. Your life will dramatically change as you surrender to thus saith the Holy Spirit in Jesus name. Amen.

This morning in my communion time with the Holy Spirit He asked me what are we doing with the abundance of grace He has lavished upon us and the gift of righteousness? He shared with me the importance of using the grace and gifts He has bestowed upon us because that is the only way in which He can show His power through and among us and demonstrate the Kingdom of Jesus on earth for men to see.

The Kingdom will not be made manifest from the skies or through the wind taking over people. but only through the lives of Jesus’s faithful lovers and followers.

We need the Holy Spirit, pointed out to me in no certain terms the importance of us knowing who we are in Him and what and why He came to equip us for service to be vehicles through which His glory can be seen. All the encouragement and support that Jesus offers us is so that we are a true representation of His character and nature for men to see.

Just look at the words the enemies spoke about Peter and the Apostles in Acts.4:13&14 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus. 14 And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.

The Holy Spirit asked me if this is what men will say of me today? This is what men should say of us as followers and lovers of Jesus because He paid the price for us to have that rank of office on the earth to prove just how great He actually is.

The Holy Spirit went on further to point out to me to remember the words Jesus spoke to us in Matthew.11:28-30 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Now as you look at these words be ready to surrender every excuse you have for being incapable of being and doing what Jesus said you could do for His name sake.

Jesus invites us here to bring to Him every labor or work, effort, failure and the toll it has taken from us and everything that binds and imprisons us from moving forward to Him and He promises us that we will find rest.Not more turmoil, hurt, pain or more oppression. Jesus never says things He cannot do so when He says it. All we need to do is believe and receive it as fact and it will manifest for us.

Jesus offers us His yoke to take upon our lives, that is lay down our heavy yoke and burden and pick up His which is light and easy and find rest for our souls. Living in a place where our minds, wills, emotions and intellects are in complete agreement with Jesus and our bodies reflect His nature through us in clear distinct manifestation of signs, wonders and miracles that mean men can say of us they have been with Jesus and we marvel at what they have done in the name of Jesus.

This is the reason for the abundance of grace being imparted to us by the Holy Spirit so that through us the fragrance of the knowledge of God can be diffused through our lives to change the odors that satan has spewed over the earth to cause men to live in fear of death which Jesus has defeated once and for all. Jesus went about doing good healing all that were oppressed of the devil for God was with Him.

The gift of righteousness is to ensure that we are covered by Jesus who loved righteousness and hated lawlessness and was anointed above all His companions. Through the same righteousness that Jesus exuded we have it as a gift to execute that makes us reign in life by the One man Christ Jesus as we saw happen in the life of Peter and the Apostles in Acts.4 that caused their enemies to tremble in fear at what this would accomplish on the earth.

This my brethren is what the Holy Spirit wants us to have at the forefront of our lives at this season of time as we walk in the faith of Jesus demonstrating what only He can do which: no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered the heart of man what God has said but is being revealed to us by the operation of the Holy Spirit in our lives for all to see. This glorifying the name of the Lord Jesus.

My prayer for you today is that as you hear these words faith will arise in your souls and every grace necessary will awaken you to action to lay hold of these words in your hearts and go out and become diffusers of the fragrance of the knowledge of God in every place.

May you be so energized by the Holy Spirit’s grace that you are unrecognizable to your peers and it is said of you “”You have been with Jesus”” because the fragrance of the knowledge of Him is continually flowing through you in signs, wonders and miracles to glorify the name of Jesus and the Kingdom of Jesus is expanding and taking over in the earth.

Let this be your testimony in Jesus name. Amen.

There are words spoken often by men the Holy Spirit said to me in my communion time with Him this morning that we can ignore but what the Holy Spirit has spoken will happen even after a generation has gone on.

This is because His words are eternal and will work once we embrace and receive them and allow Him to fulfill them in our lives. On that note He wants you again today to renew your mind with words He had declared to you which He wants to manifest in your lives now.

When you first heard them you rejoiced, but as time went on they became more vague and distant to your mind because pressure arose against you to steal the word from you and your confession and meditation on the word ceased and now you can hardly remember the word.

However the Holy Spirit does not forget any word He speaks and is ready to help you lay hold of the truth again and see it manifest on your behalf.

So open your hearts this morning and allow these words to saturate your whole being and take over your consciousness and make you into a new person filled with the power and presence of the Holy Spirit that diffuses the fragrance of the knowledge of God in every place you walk in Jesus name.

In my fellowship time with the Holy Spirit this morning He spoke to me about seeing things beyond the plain and beyond the mountain to the place He has ordained for you to walk in this new season.

He spoke clearly about things that eye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor have entered the heart of man the things He has prepared for us.

They shall be revealed to us through the Holy Spirit. He pointed out to me that this is not just words we speak from the bible because we know a couple of scriptures but real in that He the Holy Spirit is about to bring these realities in our lives in true live events that will happen.

He reminded me that the vision is for an appointed time and that it will speak.

It is not a vain imagination or a high thing which men have conceived but a product of the Holy Spirit which shall be birthed forth for the Lord’s glory to be revealed for men to see. God does not bring to the time of birth and then fails to bring forth.

It is as when the Lord said that a virgin will conceive and give birth to His son.

That thought was not conceivable in the eyes of men because it is not possible in the natural realm for that sort of event to take place, but the Lord said it because He had planned it and, was in the time appointed going to make it happen regardless of whether man believed it possible or not.

Man was going to be involved with the process and that singular event was going to change the course of history eternally and open a new breed of men loaded with God become the catalysts of the greatest moves of God in history, doing and carrying out feats for God that had never been seen before but became common place in the affairs of men.

The Holy Spirit reminded me that when Isaiah and Jeremiah spoke those prophecies men laughed and scorned and ridiculed them as heretics, but did the responses of men change the facts of those words.

Never because the words the Lord speaks are not subject to what thus saith man. So don’t be concerned when men ridicule the words God speaks concerning His plan for your life in this season but respond as Mary did when she said: be it unto me according to your word and, what Gabriel said to Mary shall be your end result because with God nothing shall be impossible.

God never promised you that possible things will happen. God always declares that the impossible to man will happen so that no flesh can glory in His Presence.

“So today lift your eyes and look beyond the plain and beyond over the mountains of possibility to the realities that the Holy Spirit is pointing to where the impossible becomes reality and you experience it with shouts of joy and excitement saying look what the Lord has done and it is marvelous in our eyes.”

“Don’t be moved by any voice that contradicts what thus saith the Lord but laugh in scorn at anything that says it will not happen for this is the time the Lord has ordained to bring His plan for your life to come to pass.”

Nothing can stop it so agree and align yourself to the truth and resist the lie that says impossible.

“Yes the Holy Spirit says resist the voice of doubt and unbelief that says that is impossible and agree with the Holy Spirit’s voice saying be part of history being created in your life in Jesus name. Amen.”

I pray that as these words register in your heart the grace contained in them will empower you to receive them and incubate them in your life to bring forth the fruit the Holy Spirit has ordained that eye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor have entered the heart of man the things God has prepared at this time of the miraculous for you in Jesus name. Amen.

The Holy Spirit reminded me of this word and said I should share it again to lift you up and remind you of your position in the Lord and how you are to conduct your walk in this season. Do not allow the enemy room to disqualify you from your rightful inheritance which is for now. Lay hold of this sword of the Spirit in prayer and dig your heels in deep and stake your rightful claim and gain your triumph in Jesus name.

This beautiful morning the Precious Holy Spirit in my fellowship time with Him began thundering out of me scriptures of what has qualified me to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He was reminding me of my rights and privileges as a son of God and the place I should walk in as an heir in the kingdom of Jesus.

The Holy Spirit is such an encourager and a lifter of spirits to empower one to take action knowing you will be covered and supported by the Mighty Hand of the Lord. With the Holy Spirit helping you, there is nothing that is impossible and you will begin to see options in the most difficult and opposing situations. You will begin to visualize a path forward where it says no way through as Moses found out at the crossing of the Red Sea.

The path the Lord directed was through the Red Sea which would part for them to cross over on dry ground, the sea being the wall of protection for them.

Let me continue with the words the Holy Spirit thundered through me this morning. In Colossians.1:10-14 it reads these words that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

This scripture makes it perfectly clear that we as followers of Jesus should conduct our lives in a way that is worthy of the Lord, in other words our lives should not embarrass the Lord and discredit His name in any way shape or form.

We should be beacons of light and emblems of grace and glory that radiate His Presence and Power as a lighthouse for men to see and behold and, thus glorify the name of the Lord. We should be fully pleasing the Lord in our service of Him just as it said of Jesus. You are my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.

The Lord wants us so close to Him and in such close union with the Holy Spirit that we reflect His nature and character in everything we say or do. Like Jesus we only speak thus saith the Lord.

Now verse 12 puts the reality of what I shared into real context for us because we are told to thank the Lord because we have qualified to be partakers of this inheritance.

We have been given the certificate of having gone through the syllabus set and have proven ready, fit and competent enough from the standard of the Most High God to share in the inheritance of the good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Remember what Jesus spoke to His disciples in John.14:12-14 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. 13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.

This points to the fact that all the works Jesus did we should do and are qualified to do and even greater works than He as a single person could do. We are qualified by the Holy Spirit to do the miracles, signs and wonders Jesus performed on earth as part of our inheritance package from the Lord.

This reality of receiving an inheritance package, just because I am qualified as a son is clear to me because I got the resources my natural Dad left me once he had passed on and got to enjoy the benefit of what I had not worked for, in a single moment of time because I claimed my right to it.

So I am ecstatic when the Holy Spirit reminds me of what I am qualified to receive because Jesus who is perfect has reserved it for me to partake of it in the now of life.

I pray today that as you receive these words from the Lord every grace contained in them will become real in you and you will begin to partake of your inheritance in Jesus for real and experience what it really means to be a son of the Most High God. May the reality of the Holy Spirit walking in and through you to manifest the Hand of the Lord on your behalf become a daily reality in your life and experience here on earth.

May you glorify the name of the Lord.

Jesus desires that you are raised as a beacon of light and a banner of righteousness, a gem of marvelous Praise to His wonderful name that men can clearly see and know God from in Jesus name. Amen.

This morning in my communion time with the Holy Spirit, He spoke to me about going on further to diffusing the fragrance of the knowledge of God in every place. The Holy Spirit leads us out in triumph in Christ and then through us manifests the fragrance of the knowledge of God in every place.

The Holy Spirit further pointed out what does the fragrance of the knowledge of God look like in any environment. We as His followers and lovers should be very aware and conscious of the fragrance of the knowledge of God because it should be exuding through our lives daily.

Let us further investigate what the fragrance of the knowledge of God being present does in a place. In Matthew.4:15&16 we read these words of prophecy “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,By the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan,Galilee of the Gentiles:16

The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, And upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death Light has dawned.”

You will notice that this prophecy did not come to pass when Jesus was born but after He was baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit that fragrance of the knowledge of God begins to be seen. Let us explore further. Matthew.4:23&24 reads these words as the headlines of the time 3 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. 24 Then His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them. 25 Great multitudes followed Him—from Galilee, and from Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.

One thing is very clear to note from this news that the odor of satan was being removed from these places as the fragrance of the knowledge of God was being diffused by Jesus on the people and look at the great multitudes that followed Him.

We see further on a greater manifestation of the fragrance of the knowledge of God being diffused and taking over the bad odor of satan which had been present before in Luke.6:17-19 And He came down with them and stood on a level place with a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases, 18 as well as those who were tormented with unclean spirits. And they were healed. 19 And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all.

This the Holy Spirit said to me is how the fragrance of the knowledge of God is spread in every place. It produces such exuberant joy and celebration because men are freed from oppression and it is visible for men to look at and behold, not hope that they will see in the future. The fragrance of the knowledge of God is real and cannot be denied even by the fiercest adversary or opposition because men can see it with their own eyes and it cannot be denied.

Let us look in further with the Apostle Peter so we see that the fragrance of the Knowledge of God was not only present with the master Jesus but also with His followers and even Peter who denied that he knew Jesus to a slave girl and began swearing and cursing to prove that he was different from Jesus.

In Acts.5:12-16 just look at the headline news of the day And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. And they were all with one accord in Solomon’s Porch. 13 Yet none of the rest dared join them, but the people esteemed them highly. 14 And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women, 15 so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them. 16 Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed. This my beloved is the reality of the fragrance of the knowledge of God in manifestation through miracles, signs and wonders that men cannot deny and a removal of the odor of satan in human lives.

Just look how many people were gathered as a result of the fragrance of the knowledge of God in manifestation.

Finally let us look at the apostle Paul just in case you are still doubtful about who qualifies to diffuse the fragrance of the knowledge of God. A former blasphemer of the Jesus whose fragrance he begins to diffuse for men to see.

In Acts.19:11&12 Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, 12 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them. Acts.19:17-20 This became known both to all Jews and Greeks dwelling in Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. 18 And many who had believed came confessing and telling their deeds. 19 Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted up the value of them, and it totaled fifty thousand pieces of silver. 20 So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed.

Through the fragrance of the knowledge of God being diffused by the Apostle Paul we see again the word of God prevailing over every demonic odor and changing the fragrance to a sweet smelling aroma of life in people that could not be denied by any person.

This my brethren is real and should be our reality as followers, lovers and servants of Jesus. My prayer for you today is that as you hear these words of truth concerning you and what your life should produce you will find the grace the Holy Spirit supplies to you through these words to position yourselves in marriage to the Spirit of Triumph in Christ and then go on to manifest the Fragrance of the knowledge of God in every place so the Kingdom of Jesus will be expanded out to cover the earth with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters over the sea.

Be determined that you will be a part of the carriers of the Fragrance of the knowledge of God on the earth. Give yourself entirely over to the Lord and lay aside every weight, obstacle, natural desire and impediment that would hinder you from moving forward in your pursuit of being a fragrance of the Holy Spirit diffuser of the glory of the Lord for the world to see Jesus lifted up as His glory cover the earth as the waters cover the sea and righteousness takes over the earth in Jesus name. Amen.

The Holy Spirit this morning spoke to me in my communion time with Him of being married to the Spirit of Triumph in Christ Jesus and through that union always being in the position where we are continuously walking in the place of triumph regardless of the place we started, even if from an ash heap.

My heart was excited at the prospect of that reality because I know that in many situations in my life there have been places of victory I won that have been snatched away from me, because I was unaware of how to correctly navigate after the success and ended up losing ground.

This was a pattern that the apostle Paul went through where He had major success in a Region and then found himself being driven away from that place through the influential people who stirred up trouble against his witness and he was expelled from that region. I always wanted to know why this kept happening to Paul so I could navigate without falling into the same defeat.

Let me now share some of the things the Holy Spirit pointed out to me about marriage to the Spirit of triumph in Christ Jesus. In 2 Corinthians 2:14 we read these words written by the apostle Paul: Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.

I recall the first day that revelation became real to me because as I read and meditated on it I noticed that Paul spoke those words after he had missed an open door of opportunity in Troas where everything was perfect and the people were ready and there was no opposition to Paul sharing his message.

The people were eager to hear and receive his word, but Paul was the person not at rest and could not take advantage of this open access the Lord had given him and I was stunned because I knew how many times he had struggled to gain open access and the level of warfare he had to do just to prepare the ground and now everything was open and he capitulated and then goes on to say the Lord always leads us in triumph. So I asked the Holy Spirit how this was a triumph when he leaves not having done anything.

The Holy Spirit pointed out to me that Paul was led out in triumph into Troas, but his behavior/conduct caused him to miss out not the Spirit of triumph. Had Paul ministered to the people there would have been much triumph that was made manifest in the lives of people.

“I learned a lesson there.” “That although the Lord can open the door for us our conduct in every situation can and does determine the final outcome.”

This points to the fact that we must always be ready to take the opportunities the Lord presents. We need to be watchful, alert and girded with truth to make good every opportunity the Lord makes available. A clear portrait of the importance of our responsibility to steward the truth faithfully. The Holy Spirit went on to speak to me today on being married to the Spirit of triumph.

This speaks of being one with the Spirit of triumph and walking in total harmony and choreographed movement with Him as one entity. It also speaks of complete agreement with Triumph and not defeat in any situation no matter how it looks or appears. The end result will always be triumph.

He spoke of close continuous conversation with the Spirit of Triumph and resting on His decisions as the Carer and Responsible One for ensuring that we are not harmed or hurt in any situation. The Holy Spirit spoke of a much greater intimacy and knowing of one another which is only experienced in marriage.

Things of the ways of triumph and how it works being revealed that those outside are not privy to share in.The ultimate end being that you cannot distinguish between the Spirit of Triumph and you as you are completely One entity speaking with One clear voice that cannot be separated. This means an end to any situation or circumstance in life ending up in shame or disgrace or failure.

The fragrance of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord is always present in every place you step and walk in. Also having a share in everything that the Spirit of Triumph owns and possesses on a daily basis and access to it.

Now walking in this place of continued triumph demands attention and dedication to fellowship time, communion time and much continuous conversation with Him to get to know what the Spirit of Triumph possesses and how to make use of it in every situation in life.

Jesus never ever suffered a single defeat in His life and ministry and even when He consented to face the cross and die on our behalf the day they arrested Him as He mentioned I am the One you are looking for In John’s gospel.18 verse 6 Now when He said to them, “I am He,” they drew back and fell to the ground. The men fell under the power of the Spirit. His power was so tremendous it could still heal the servant whose ear Peter cut off even as they arrested Him.

My precious ones as you hear these words this morning embrace the grace that comes to you through them and make the quality decision to go wholly after union and marriage to the Spirit of Triumph in your life.

This will move you from the cycle of victory and defeat and then waiting and coming back to reality only to revisit the same scenario over and over again. Victory and defeat. Agree with the Spirit of Triumph in Christ and let the fragrance of the Knowledge of Him be your continued smell of beauty and radiance to a world that is dying as the Lifeline of Jesus to free and release men from bondage and oppression.

Repent fully of every time you have yielded to shame and disgrace and come short of Triumph over any situation in your life and return to the place where Triumph reigns again in your lives and the kingdom of Jesus is prevalent in all your life events. Let the fragrance of the Knowledge of Him exude through you wherever you go in bringing Triumph in all things in Jesus name. Amen.