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The Holy Spirit this morning wants me to share some things in the life of Jesus which are not obvious but are pertinent to our spiritual enrichment and edification. If you study who and what Jesus did which I would encourage each of you to do because a disciple needs to know what His teacher does in order for him to be able to copy and imitate Him correctly and appropriately as a perfectly trained Protege.

In Matthew.8:5-13 we read the story of the Centurion who approaches Jesus for a healing and we find that the response of Jesus to this man is startling because Jesus uses this event to teach His disciples some lessons in faith and relationship with God which are priceless.

Let us dive into some of the lessons that Jesus allowed this Centurion who spoke to impact the lives of His disciples. Now let me preface this by pointing out that Jesus was very particular about what His disciples listened to and always checked out Himself what doctrines or thoughts and ideas His disciples allowed into their lives.

It was Jesus who taught them to take heed to what they hear and how they hear it and confronted the Pharisees about what they were telling his disciples.

This was because Jesus knew what listening to false things could do to affect the trust in the heart of a believer and wanted to protect them from deception in any and every form. So if Jesus is willing to let what a stranger says, speak to His disciples be a priority to hear then we need to pay very close attention. This is because that word must be so priceless and worth much for our use in the Kingdom operation on earth.

Firstly in Matthew.8:8 & 9 The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed. 9 For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”

The Centurion reveals in his statement that he understands the structure of a kingdom and knows that when orders are given by the highest authority in this case Jesus they are obeyed without question. The word of the King is final and not to be questioned as to whether I should or should not obey it.

What the King wants happens once He has spoken it and non compliance to it is not an option. It is settled no matter what you think or feel or believe. Once spoken it is a command that must be fulfilled. This man is convinced that any word Jesus speaks over his servant will bring healing to him instantly.

This is because the centurion had heard story after story of how Jesus had healed various people of all types of sickness and disease and therefore since He could heal various diseases He was an authority on it as it did not matter how long or how the sickness was caused Jesus had the answer.

Jesus’ response in verse 10-12 says it all. When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, “Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel! 11 And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. 12 But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Ask yourself: Have you ever done anything in your response to Jesus on a question that has caused Him to marvel and then go on to commend you? So listen carefully to these words because they got the attention of Jesus and what He goes on to say shows just how important this truth is in the operation of the Kingdom.

We know that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word truth. So when Jesus says to this man who is not privy to the covenant promises of God shared in the Jewish community. The place from which you could hear about the Kingdom.

Then points out emphatically that this Centurion has more faith and understanding of the Kingdom than any person who is hearing the truth daily or weekly in the church.

Jesus was fully aware that in this place all the record of truth is available to be studied and understood and accepted without question. Jesus is amazed at the level of understanding this man possessed. You can be sure his faith was authentic otherwise Jesus would have called him out on it.

Those elders always questioned the validity of Jesus and where He came from though every word in their torah pointed to Him as Messiah. However they did not accept His word which the centurion had just done.

They did not accept the fact that the word of the King was final. Therefore for that reason though the Presence of the Lord was present to heal them they received nothing because they rejected His word which is the truth.

This next part that Jesus goes on to speak is what each of us who are Kingdom people need to make sure we never fall into that category of those who hear what the King says but have our own opinions on His ways and methods. This of course because we feel we know better and are more discerning.

The reality however is that we find ourselves missing out on the Kingdom ways because we no longer submit to the authority of the king Jesus but our reading of what we believe the King is saying.

Thus we miss out on what is happening and find ourselves experiencing darkness and falling under the sway of the devil, living in defeat and blaming our failure on Jesus rather than our drifting away from truth.

I have seen this situation happen often in the Kingdom when new believers come in and accept Jesus Words as final commands to obey and experience the Kingdom in their daily lives.

While seasoned believers seek to hurt and harm them because they are jealous of their swift progress and resent that it makes them look powerless and insignificant. That happened with the Apostle Paul.

They then become the accusers of the brethren working to divide and subdue the Kingdom advancement because they are no longer subject to the words of the King Jesus as final.

The Holy Spirit wanted me to share these facts with you because you are facing this situation at present and are wondering why this is happening.

It is happening and will continue to happen unless we start to respond as the Holy Spirit dictates and make sure we are only obeying the dictates of King Jesus. By only speaking what thus saith the Lord and having the commensurate results of obedience to His words.

As Jesus said to the centurion in response in verse 13 Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you.” And his servant was healed that same hour. Look at those words of instruction not I send healing to him but as you have believed is possible with my name and authority it is done for you.

What you believed and spoke has happened for you because you believe in the Authority Jesus has over sickness and know that authority cannot fail or be stopped no matter what. This is the same advice Mary gave to the Servants at the wedding in Canaan: whatever He tells you to do just do. No questions. John.2

Our continuous use of the process of speaking what Jesus has said and obeying His voice will mean we remain in connection with Him and that will enable us to remain constant in our operations of the Kingdom that means we have success.

We must be conscious of living according to the way the Kingdom operates which is by faith and seek to increase our faith not weaken in faith. Our pursuit is to walk in greater faith and in the faith that Jesus Himself walked in where nothing was impossible to Him.

I pray today that as you have heard these words the grace supplied through them will reign over you and captivate your hearts to comply and become as bold as the Centurion was. Then go on to experience and see the miraculous power of the Holy Spirit reactivated in your life and walk with God.

So that King Jesus can be glorified through your demonstration of His Kingdom through signs, wonders and various miracles for men to see and get to want and know who this Jesus is so they can serve Him just as you do in Jesus name.

Lay hold of these truths and recover your life back to the place where you speak what Jesus says and it comes to pass for you as it did for the Centurion in Jesus name. Amen.

Today the Holy Spirit brought to my remembrance what His role in our life is and how we can benefit more fully from everything He has made available to us. If we only knew how best to cooperate with Him and allow ourselves the opportunity to experience the glory He sets before us daily.

Let’s look today at the words Jesus spoke about the person of the Holy Spirit and His specific role towards us in John.16:12-15 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. 14 He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. 15 All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.

Firstly there is much more Jesus needs us to know about the working out of truth in our lives. So no matter how much truth we have we must remain humble students of the truth. We should always be pursuing further truth and understanding its operation in and through our lives.

The Holy Spirit is the determiner of when we need further illumination of truth, so we need to be available to Him and sensitive to His guidance and direction. In Acts.13:2 As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

In this passage we see that it is these men who make the choice to take time to minister to the Lord. We are not told on this particular occasion that the Holy Spirit led them to take this time out. However they were motivated to take time to just minister to the Lord and added in fasting with it.

We are kings and priests unto our God so taking time to minister to Him is part of the office of a priest. We should therefore make it a practice to take time out just to minister to the Lord.

The results in this event of taking time out were astonishing because the Holy Spirit speaks a new direction which separates Paul and Barnabas from their role in the Church setting to a higher role the Holy Spirit has called them to accomplish.

This new role will involve the power of the Holy Spirit working miraculously in their lives going forward outside the confines of Church circles and reaching out into the spheres of human life. Addressing people in their work environments and influencing the wider community which they then begin to do as they begin reaching out further.

What we just witnessed here is a guidance by the Holy Spirit of Paul and Barnabas into a greater truth of the mission God had appointed them to accomplish on His behalf that would expand the reach of the Kingdom of Jesus.

Their new role would influence far more people than they had seen or experienced before with astounding results marked by great miracles, signs and wonders. These signs attested to the fact that they had obeyed the truth by moving forward with the Holy Spirit and thus brought the manifestation of the Kingdom into the government of the day.

The Holy Spirit spoke on the authority of what Jesus had said to Paul before about reaching out to the Gentiles and bearing His name before Kings. This was never going to happen with Paul being stuck in church every week ministering to the same believers and the people they invited to church.

The time had come for a shift in direction so Paul and Barnabas had to be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit as they made time to minister to the Lord. I will encourage you to make time to minister to the Lord and watch how things will change in your life and circumstances.

The Holy Spirit also in this passage goes on to reveal the events of the future concerning the life of Paul and Barnabas which were going to change drastically in all aspects including where they will now live because they needed to move away from Antioch to different regions and be on the move rather than in a single environment in there personal houses.

They were literally going to need to live out of suitcases in order to reach the sphere God was directing them to take, now without the church support. Their new provision would come from the Holy Spirit’ guidance who takes over their affairs as their Boss.

Once the Holy Spirit takes over as their boss things dramatically change and a new authority now operates in their lives. With new sources of provision and ways of obtaining it become available which they had never previously experienced.

All this by the powerful hand of the Lord who sent them out and was certainly not going to leave them as orphans out there to perish, but make every provision they needed to come to them to fulfill the vision.

Just look from Acts13 onwards and watch the record of the life of Paul and Barnabas from then on. What Paul goes on to manifest of the power of Jesus is startling in its magnitude and is a reminder to us of how obedience to the Holy Spirit’s leading and guidance does in the life of a follower and disciple of Jesus.

I pray today that as you hear these words the Holy Spirit will open your eyes to these truths and grace will be imparted to you wherever you are in your relationship with Jesus. Go on to be propelled into His plan for your life.

Then allow the Holy Spirit to move you back into place and alignment to where you are to be positioned at this time. So that the Holy Spirit can move you back into the centre of the will of Jesus for you presently.

I pray the Holy Spirit enables you to recover your lost years and bring you to the place of glory He ordained for you to walk in. Only be ready to follow whatever the asks you to do and watch the changes that will happen in you in Jesus name. Amen.

The Holy Spirit wants me this morning to continue the word from yesterday and deal with the next aspect of Hebrews.10:36 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise. We looked at the confidence we need and what that means to us and for us in our relationship with the Lord.

Coupled with that we need to also have built into us endurance or steadfastness which is part of the nature and characteristic of the Holy Spirit. When the Lord says you have a need for something you know that it is imperative that you seek to understand what it is you need.

Then go wholeheartedly to pursue and get it because without it you will be missing something that can cost you much loss though you have already done much work already.

The Lord wants us complete, lacking nothing that is necessary for our life and godliness.

So you will ask why do I need endurance when I already have the necessary confidence in God’s ability. Good question and the Holy Spirit wants you to have this mind because it will see you through everything. As long as you live on earth everything from God will be contested including your faith and trust in God because the enemy is around to remind you that he will not let the will of the Lord happen for you.

This is because satan wants you to believe he is in control of situations and events on earth. He desires to manipulate God’s order on the earth and make humans believe he can change circumstances at will. Psalm.2.

I have found that the Lord is not bothered with the fact that His will can be contested and challenged. In fact He uses the contesting of His will to prove and show just how powerful and great He God actually is, which builds endurance within us.

This reality of the Lord’s confidence in His ability enables us to be bold which in turn means we never quit and always have an answer for any obstacle that rises against us.

Let me now share what Hebrews.10:36 says: endurance is needed after you have done the will of God and are in the process of waiting for the manifestation of the promise.

When you have obeyed instructions and you have done what God requires you to do. You have followed through the difficult set of instructions and are now awaiting the reality of the blessing from the Lord.

You will need the endurance, strength, fortitude ,steadfastness of heart necessary to go further and refuse to quit on the promise. “However you will have to lay hold of the promise with unwavering audacity that what God said you will have.”

It is as the Apostle Paul mentioned in Galatians.6:9 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. “The reality of that scripture is that if we grow weary and lose heart we miss out on what we have sowed for.”

“We can miss out on a harvest because we have not built endurance which will carry us all the way through to manifestation. Having put all that work in we can lose because we grow weary and faint.”

When I realized I can lose out by not taking decisive action that makes me do what is necessary. I said no chance on my watch. I will do whatever it takes to build the endurance necessary to carry me through to the finish line and have the reality of the promise.

“The Holy Spirit wants us to be resilient and steadfast just as He the Lord is.”

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. Not the passive love of the Lord because that would fail and God doesn’t fail. If the Lord was not steadfast most of us would never make it, but His steadfast love breaks all boundaries and reaches us and pulls us out so it is necessary that we also are filled with that same steadfastness so that nothing wears us out but faithfulness wins the day in our lives.

“Therefore in conclusion to the matter this morning after endurance has been worked out in and through you, then comes the promise.”

“In other words, no endurance, no receiving of the promise as endurance is the foundation upon which the promise will rest in your life, so that is why you will need it.”

It is a must for the disciple of Jesus to win and keep on winning in life. I learnt to always say the race in God is not a 100 meter dash but a long marathon run which entails bumps and turns. So you will need to be resilient and ready to overcome obstacles and still keep going forward. So be ready my brethren and sistren.

As the apostle Paul puts it in Ephesians.6:13 & 14 having done all to stand, still stand ready until you win. Don’t buckle under pressure but use the pressure as the fuel to propel you forward to inherit the promise.

As you hear these truths today let grace be supplied to you by the Holy Spirit to lay hold of the endurance necessary to carry you through to receive the promise of God and live it out.

Say no to giving up, quitting and fix your gaze firmly on going forward and receiving your prize without reservation or apology. Then watch how your life will be all the greater and mightier in God with the miraculous power of the Most High being your witness and notable proof of Jesus’ Name. Amen.

The Holy Spirit wants me to encourage you this morning through words from the book of Hebrews.10:35 & 36 which says Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. 36 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

Many of you have done the will of God faithfully and faced all sorts of obstacles, and still refused to cave in, held on in fierce battles. You wonder why you have not received the reward/promise the bible says you should have after having done all that is necessary to stand.

Well today the Holy Spirit has good news for you which should lift you up and push you through to the position of triumph regardless of how weak, tired and frustrated you may feel.

First of all you must remember that no matter what you feel or think is happening to you, that is not the reality of life. This is what events, various situations and choices you made in those instances that are trying to convince you that you will not make it through this time.

“Your complex situation forces you to believe you are locked in a stranglehold from which you cannot escape but that is not the accurate truth.”

Since your Father can do all things and can make impossible things become possible and always gives life to the dead. Then He calls things which do not exist as though they did, then you have no reason to fear because your help is on the way.

You will come out winning with a song of deliverance.

The Holy Spirit wants you however to embrace this stance at this moment that Hebrews.10:35 & 36 says you need to have to benefit and gain all the Father has for you.

“ Don’t cast away your confidence in who God is to you, what He did for you and the inheritance He has provided for you because He never fails anyone who has trusted in Him.”

You will not be the first candidate where God goes on to fail helping out.

Many have already come out of much worse than you are facing so you need to be strong and refuse to budge regardless of the fear and trepidation you feel. They are only feelings and they do not kill.

“ They desire you to give into their pressure and fall into defeat.” So resist that ungodly pressure.

Your confidence has a great reward attached to it. Look at what the Apostle John says about it in 1 John.5:14 & 15 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.

Anything we ask the Lord He will give us in accordance with His will which means that though everything is bleak and seems dark we know that God will step in and make a way through for us if we only ask Him.

Anything means nothing is left out and that is why we must not cast away that confidence because as long as we hold on to it we will come out victorious and triumphant. We just know that we know that God will not fail to make a way out for us.

“Your confidence means everything to you and you must fight to keep hold of it as it will never let you down.”

“ It is your deposit of strength from the Holy Spirit that ensures you will come through no matter what happens.”

It is what Paul used on the ship in Acts.27 that meant he knew he would be saved and all the people on the ship with him would be freed. It is what Peter knew that meant he could sleep in Prison on the night before his trial for execution the next day by Herod and he was gloriously delivered.

Can you imagine the fear he felt as he lay there chained to officers because they knew God had done some saving of His people in prison before so ensured he was completely bound. This was to make sure any attempt to be freed would be felt and recognized so it could be promptly stopped.

However God still broke right through and still delivered Peter. Then brought him out alive, well and strengthened as he went on to fulfill the plan of God for his life.

The Holy Spirit wants you to know today that it is your turn to come out, as you fearlessly hold onto your confidence in the Lord’s ability to deliver. You will come out unharmed with a testimony of triumph and such significance that all will marvel. Then say this is the hand of the Most High working on your behalf and we have to admit that a notable miracle has been done on your behalf.

So lay hold of these words of truth and let the grace released in them propel you to hold on vehemently to your confidence without wavering. Then go on to experience the mighty hand of the Lord working on your behalf in the name of Jesus. Amen.

The Holy Spirit this morning reminded me of the great value there is in the house of wisdom and why seeking for wisdom over years is the greatest asset we as His people have.

When we seek after wisdom wholeheartedly and begin to find it working in our lives things begin to change dramatically and the investment of time spent begins to pay off because wisdom has the ability to make something out of nothing. Luke.2:52. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

Now the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of wisdom and possesses all the wisdom there is necessary for progress in life and developing a relationship with Him is pivotal in experiencing the productivity of wisdom.

I am reminded of a time when I was seeking passionately after the Spirit of wisdom and I met a couple of guys in church who were interested in the spiritual gifts they possessed and were always talking about the fact that they had the gifts of healing or miracles and could do wonders that made people marvel at them.

The only thing was that they seemed to have no fruit of the Spirit. All boasting and competing whose gift was greater.

They asked me which of the gifts of the Spirit I had and I said none but that I was building a relationship with the Holy Spirit who owned and possessed all the gifts.

I was content to rest on knowing Him because if I had the giver of the gifts then I could experience all that He had rather than a gift which only dealt with one facet of life. I figured that I would be at a disadvantage if I had a singular gift. So what would I do when I had an issue outside my gift.

“Well that proved to be the most valuable advice the Holy Spirit gave me to answer them because in reality to have a gift is one thing. However, to have a relationship with the Owner of all gifts is far greater because He makes available to you whichever gift you need when it is necessary for the appropriate situation.

”It was as if satan was using every available believer/leader to accuse me on my walk with the Lord and disqualify me from the way the Holy Spirit was teaching me the practical principles of life for my future in the Kingdom.

These truths have proved invaluable to me as I navigated through much church hostility and persecution. The lessons I learned have become spiritual equipment for aiding young believers in their journey with the Lord and keeping them on the right path.

In Proverbs.21:20 we read these words In wisdom’s house you’ll find delightful treasures and the oil of the Holy Spirit. But the stupid squander what they’ve been given. The Holy Spirit reminded me that wisdom is a house which means it is far bigger than a singular event and because it has many rooms, there is a vast amount that puts it all together.

For that reason you will therefore find in it many delightful treasures all around. I have learnt by reason of experience there is much more available that is necessary which you will discover as you find wisdom in the various rooms.

“ Wisdom is not a singular event though it can solve individual events but I can assure you that you will need wisdom again so don’t rest on the magnitude of one event wisdom solved for you as your mark of grandeur.”

When you seek after wisdom who Jesus happens to be. 1 Corinthians.1:30. You will come to discover that you will be filled with so much treasure that solves life issues and quandaries, which also provides ways out of the most dangerous and perilous situations.

“Secondly you will find that in the house of wisdom there is the oil of the Holy Spirit which speaks of the anointing which removes burdens and destroys yokes, overcomes obstacles, always triumphs and has barrier breaking capacity and an earth shaking magnitude at your disposal to deal with anything that would rise up against you in judgment.”

This is the reason for a continuous pursuit of wisdom so you go on to possess the house of wisdom as opposed to just a word of wisdom which solves an immediate situation but has no answers for tomorrow’s troubles when they come and believe me they will come. Job.14:1 “Man who is born of woman Is of few days and full of trouble.

“Your priority is to build the house of wisdom for your life not your name or reputation because those will fade but wisdom will live over the grave of every human being because wisdom will never die as it is resurrection and life.”

I believe that from hearing these truths you will see how much of an investment giving time to building and seeking wisdom is. You will see just how lasting the results of wisdom are. Then you will make it the priority of your life and seek for the grace the Holy Spirit will make available for you to have the house of wisdom built into you.

This will make you become a dispenser of the nature and character of God in your generation, which will leave a legacy of God for your life that will always be speaking of your union with the Lord in Jesus. Amen.

The Holy Spirit spoke of spiritual food for today: things we must of necessity look at daily. So we will firstly look at what are some obstacles to answered prayer? The primary reason is not communing with the Holy Spirit.

Let’s look at the biblical evidence to support this statement. In John.6:63 Jesus says these words: It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

This is a clear foundation for any activity in God. Nothing birthed from our flesh no matter how well intentioned or motivated can produce spiritual results. What Jesus speaks is what brings life.

Remember Jesus never said anything until after He returned in the power of the Spirit after a 40 day fast where He was tempted. Luke.4:14 & 15 Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding region. 15 And He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

Let us look at the Acts of the Apostles.4:8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders of Israel: Acts.6:3 Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business; This is the pattern in the new Covenant with anyone who did God. The Holy Spirit has the preeminence.

Galatians.6:8 reads these words: For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.

This is infallible proof that Prayer begins in the Spirit and must be reaped in the Spirit. So it is more important to find out the purpose of the Spirit before beginning to pray from your own initiative. I recall a senior Minister of a Pentecostal division of a multiple Church body.

He said he took on a fast for sixty days on water only because he wanted to beat the 40 day record of Moses and Jesus. He did not have any plan for the fast but to beat the record.

He went to say that after he reached the sixty day mark the Holy Spirit spoke to him and asked him now that you have overtaken Moses and Jesus of what importance or significance has that made to anything and what have you accomplished.

He says he was so ashamed of himself and how he had wasted time doing nothing as now it was futile and he was being ridiculed by the Lord because he was in the flesh trying to accomplish a lust that was worth nothing.

He was sharing this with ministers the importance of working with the Holy Spirit before commencing on anything no matter how spiritual it looks.

He was using this example of nothingness in his life to warn young ministers to spend more time seeking the will of the Holy Spirit before embarking on their plans. He did say that his congregation were very impressed by his feat but the Lord was not impressed. He gained nothing spiritual but got praise from men.

Let us look at the prayer life of Jesus. Everything He did was in the Spirit hence He always had God results. Jesus said the flesh profits nothing. So any transaction in the flesh will only bring losses. So today before you start blotting out prayer ask the Holy Spirit what you are missing and what you should really be praying about.

One word from the Holy Spirit is what you need today to position yourself for the answer of triumph and how to reap it. It will revolutionize your life and answers to prayer will become a daily reality in your life in Jesus name. Amen.

In my communion time with the Holy Spirit this morning I was reminded of the reality of what it takes in life to see the cycle of the Lord come through to reality in our lives. We need to have all the necessary ingredients working together to see the will of God manifested in our lives.

We must be willing to work with the Holy Spirit to guide us through the process and show us where we need to make adjustments and realignments that are necessary to bring us through. Romans.8:26-28. The same Lord who said we need to trust Him said we also need patience and endurance so that after we have done His will we will inherit the promise.

Patience is patience which means we will have to wait some things out and have an attitude of gratitude while we wait otherwise patience cannot be worked out in us. We need patience to have its perfect work in us so we are complete lacking nothing.James.1:4.

Jesus takes time in Mark.4:3-34 to share a whole discourse with His disciples and the other people about the message of the Kingdom and how it actually operates. He first tells it in a parable which is likely most will not understand and will forget or lose sight of by the end of the day.

Then He points out very clearly in verse 9 And He said to them, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” This statement means that not all who heard what Jesus said heard Him and He spoke of the inner ear pointing to the fact that the inner ear is what means you can track with God and have understanding in the things of God.

You will then see that once Jesus makes that statement only those who follow Him will be able to move forward on it because they will have the opportunity to ask further questions about the meaning of what Jesus was saying verse 10 But when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parable.

If you watch closely what happened you will see that when Jesus starts talking specifics. A clarity of the facts starts emerging and we see a process which is not available if you just heard the parable and moved on.

“The ability to ask the relevant questions for an explanation of the Parable is what made available the truth of the operation of the Kingdom which we can live by once we understand it.”

There are privileges we as followers of Jesus have and Jesus begins by outlining these facts in verse 11 And He said to them, “To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables, 12 so that ‘Seeing they may see and not perceive, And hearing they may hear and not understand; Lest they should turn, And their sins be forgiven them.’ ”

Now I came to learn this lesson as I spent time seeking to understand from the Holy Spirit what scripture was speaking to me and if I had a right to partake of it. I wanted to know what would qualify me to partake of it. I began to see that not all the words Jesus spoke were for everybody and I realized that qualifications were always stipulated as to who could partake.

I also began to see who could not partake of what Jesus said and I determined I would do what was necessary to qualify for the benefit of what Jesus offered because it brought life.

I remember spending hours going over the introduction to the letters of Paul, John, Peter, James, Jude and the Holy Spirit pointing out to me who qualified for what and who they were addressing.

An example would be the Church in Corinth could not walk as the church in Ephesus and use the whole armor of God to go against the schemes of the devil and overcome them because they were carnal (enmity with God) which means they worked in collaboration with satan so Paul could not talk to them about fighting and overcoming the devil and said so.

Recognize this fact you cannot fight the person who you side with. I cannot speak to you about the deep things of the Spirit because you are babies and it would destroy you because it is meat solid food.

Back to Mark.4:9 to the disciple it has been given the grace to know the things pertaining to the Kingdom, but the knowledge must be applied to seek the Lord to know. As we see here Jesus gave the taster and cliff hanger He who has an ear to hear let him hear.

“ I realized that to say you have the ear to hear is one thing, but to apply the ear and hear is completely different, because that process of application to hear means you get the knowledge from the Holy Spirit. Get to own it and can then use it by applying it to various life situations, and see it work each time for your benefit.”

“ It is a requirement for the hearer to make sure he knows what he hears and understands it. Then applies it for his benefit which Jesus goes on to insist.” Verse.24 Take heed what you hear because how you hear will determine your final result.

The full concept concerning the Kingdom is that there is a process and it will involve seasons and you will need to build various temperaments in order to come out on top. These are the Character traits of the Lord which the Holy Spirit will grace you to walk in to achieve the God intended goal and inheritance for your individual life. Don’t grow weary in well doing for in due season you will reap if you do not faint. Galatians.6:9.

“That means if you faint you lose out and if you grow weary in doing good it impedes you.”

We have a part to play in the operation of the Kingdom and we need to take our responsibility seriously and work out our salvation with fear and trembling. Take all the lessons the Holy Spirit teaches you seriously because you will need them to transition into every blessing the Lord has for you. I have learnt by experience that the more you yield to the Holy Spirit the greater and easier your path will become to navigate.

The Holy Spirit will always be available to bring to your remembrance all the things the Lord has taught you so keep a repentant heart available so when you miss it you. It is easy to quickly make the adjustment and come back to the Lord in repentance and turn. Then find deliverance which only comes through the forgiveness of sins which Jesus points out in verse12 that means you will gain the Kingdom back if you can turn.

I have noted that whenever a person could not find a place for repentance in the bible that life is lost and that is why we must guard against hard heartedness and stubbornness because they will always rob you of God’s best in your life.

I have given you much to chew on and will leave it here and ask that the Holy Spirit grant you grace to know and understand the operation of the Kingdom from these words. May He provide you an avenue of escape from any peculiar situation that has baffled you and kept you rerunning negative patterns that are almost causing you to quit.

Then grant you the way out supernaturally that will startle you and give you a new story of victory and triumph from the Lord that builds your confidence in the ability of your Father in Jesus name. Amen.

Take time to meditate on Mark.4 for what further insight the Holy Spirit will give you about the Kingdom.

The Holy Spirit wants you to consider the commandments of the Lord for your life and ask yourself why do I feel they are burdensome. We don’t consider things the right way we should and most times make rash decisions that only hurt us and rob us of the very best .

The Holy Spirit wants me to lay out some fundamental laws of the Covenant for you to look at from the right perspective and then decide why we believe them to be burdensome.1 John.5:3.

I found the Holy Spirit saying to me to look at everything the Lord asks us to do, and who does it benefit? I realized instantly that each requirement the Lord requested was for my benefit not God’s. Let us look at some of the things the Lord asks us to do. It is always good to test the promises the Lord makes and ensure we understand them so we get the maximum benefits.

Luke.6:38 First of all Give and it will be given unto you in good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over shall men give unto you. Look at the promise of God to the giver. This principle only works when we give.

The reaction to our giving is that resources will come back to you in many more directions than you gave. Jesus only said give and there will be more given back to you in good measure not evil measure, pressed down so more can be added in for you and shaken together to level out more for you and running over, overflowing your boundaries or scope . What is burdensome about receiving more than you gave?

Let’s look at prayer Luke.11:10 Jesus said ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be opened to you. What burden is it to you to get more than you request, and to find greater than you sought for, and find treasure. When you knock a greater door into much more is open unto you which increases you and broadens your horizon. You have much more access to greater opportunities. How is that burdensome?

Let’s look at fasting, giving up a meal so God can benefit ? No, the benefits of fasting are clearly pointed out in Isaiah.58:8-9 Then your light shall break forth like the morning, Your healing shall spring forth speedily, And your righteousness shall go before you; The glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.

9.Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ You will see clearly the path to follow and your healing will spring forth speedily and your righteousness will precede you and God’s glory shall be your rear guard plus you will loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the heavy burdens, To let the oppressed go free, And that you break every yoke?

This speaks of personal benefit to you and also to others whose lives you are in position to free so what is burdensome about that. Why should I have to give up a meal so this evil will happen to me and God benefits at my expense? Certainly not? It is so that we humans have maximum benefits because God wants us to have the best of everything.

This is the reason why He gave Jesus so we could reign in life as kings and change society to be a haven of rest living out heaven on earth. More than enough for everybody and much to spare.

Finally how about love one another and thus fulfill the law of Christ and there will be continuous fighting? No things will work out perfectly because no one does what will hurt the other, but we all do for the benefit of each other and cover each other so nothing is missing. So what is so burdensome about living that way free of wars and continuous conflict. Building on the good and creating an environment for faith to flourish and the love of God being shed abroad through our lives.

Today I encourage you to look at these truths you have heard and then allow the grace in these words the Holy Spirit provides to change the lies and deception satan has sowed to make you feel serving God is not worthy. However it only robs you of the fun and enjoyment service to God brings.

What greater enjoyment than seeing people free to live again. Step back into doing righteousness and walking in the fear of the Lord and see all the benefits I have shared with you become the reality in your lives and impact all that you do.

Your life should reflect in society the might of God and manifest days of heaven here on earth so that Jesus is glorified through your life in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Remember to use these words as a go to when you feel discouraged and distressed on the way things are going and looking. Embrace these words and get back on the track of truth to only believe again.

Then all things will become possible to you as you agree with God and His ways as you keep doing truth which will not fail to deliver on your behalf. God will not fail to come through for you in Jesus’ name. Amen.

What do you do when you seem to make so many mistakes and find you are unable to get it right? The feeling of letting the Lord down again by falling for the same snare over and over again. Well the Holy Spirit gave me an answer from the word for you to focus on which should change your viewpoint completely and give you a new story in life of victory and triumph. Romans.8:28.

This answer began to form in my heart when the Holy Spirit asked me to study the different Apostles and what characterized each of their individual lives. I went through the gospels, the Acts and the epistles which relay all the information on each apostle’s life. I studied through each of them and found some astounding things that you won’t see unless you look in the direction the Holy Spirit guides you.

We will look today at John and see how he found grace in the sight of Jesus to escape judgment pronounced by Jesus and come out smelling like a rose without spot or blemish. Mark.10:25-30. He was completely exonerated of his past mistake that could easily have cost him his destiny which his brother suffered.

First of all there are some things we never ought to ask of Jesus, but I am thankful that even when we ask for nonsense He still gives us an opportunity to come out of the mess. Acts.12:1-3.

The brothers James and John came to Jesus and said bid us sit at your right hand in your glory in your Kingdom. They wanted the preeminent position and asked for it. Jesus had always taught the way to be greatest in the Kingdom was through service to Him, being as a child.

Jesus never taught or insinuated positions of grandeur to His followers as in the world through throwing around your position as a weapon. Jesus always taught them to be as a child desiring more of the Father, not the greatest position by which to rule or control people.

However on this occasion they proceeded to ask this question and Jesus answered it for them by saying it is not in my power to decide that. Jesus informed them that it was a prerogative of the Father which had been allocated to others so the position was not available.

However they were moved by their desire and pushed for it regardless of the question mark about its availability. Jesus again proceeds to ask them another question to nudge them to rethink the matter but they seemed oblivious to the cost this situation would have on them.

“This is always the way things end up when we want our own way rather than listening to the voice of correction which is seeking to help us escape the dire consequences of our error.”

My prayer for us is Lord Help us not to miss the way out for us by being stubborn and hard hearted. Jesus said to them, “Are you able to drink the cup which I will drink?” I think they thought how grand His cup was and a privilege they were being offered to drink from His cup and went on to answer that they were able. Jesus was left with no option and said to them you will drink the cup but will still not get the position at my right hand and the matter ended there it seemed.

I have come to realize that when Jesus speaks a word to you it does happen just as when he said to Peter in John.13:37 & 38 tonight before the cock crows you will deny me three times. It looked impossible but Jesus said it so expect it to happen as He spoke which it did.

Now we are told that John was present at the cross and witnessed the whole proceedings John.19:25-37 and heard the things Jesus spoke during His passion and the Holy Spirit pointed out to me that he heard Jesus say Father forgive them for they know not what they do. John obviously remembered all Jesus spoke about forgiveness and confession of sin.

He got to see Jesus as the lamb of God take away our sin and become the atonement for our souls and I noticed from that time on in scripture he never vied for the preeminent position in the kingdom as he did before.

He from that point on just wanted to humbly serve and support Peter and the other disciples in doing the will of Jesus. The spirit of competing left him and humble service became his goal. That is the place we should seek to walk in before the Lord.

Well years on Herod has a hankering to kill, murder and takes off the head of James without notice and it happens though the word says no weapon formed against us will prosper and every tongue that rises against us we should condemn for this is our heritage as servants of the Lord. Isaiah.54:17.

Well James had told the Master he could drink the cup of suffering His Master did and now that weapon could prosper because he had permitted it. He had not repented and come out of agreement in that situation.

So his life was on the warrant for untimely death. Herod went on to go after Peter but it did not succeed but Herod ended up dying not Peter. This was because Peter had not agreed to drink the cup of death so Herod could not just take out Peter prematurely.

The Holy Spirit pointed out to me that John did not have the same result because he repented of that pride as he saw the price Jesus paid for his sin and realized no one but Jesus could pay it and drink that cup.

It is clear the Holy Spirit pointed out to me in 1 John.1:8-10 John understood the power of repentance and the forgiveness of sins and the cleansing it brought from unrighteousness, which indicates you can come back to righteousness.

You can always come back to a place of authority and standing with the Lord which John went on to experience and outlived all the other Apostles. The Lord used his revelation to conclude the bible with a fresh revelation of Jesus in glory on the Isle of Patmos.

The Holy Spirit showed me through this situation with John that we humans do things that are stirred by satan and make requests that can kill us on presumption of not looking at the future results of such actions or thoughts which can kill us and ruin our lives.

However the Lord is there if we can repent, see our wrong and make the necessary change. Then find ourselves back on the path of Life He intended for us. This is because Jesus came to save us from ourselves and rescue us from our perverted hearts that love deception and lies which satan readily supplies us as bait which we unfortunately run to.

I pray today as you have received these words you will receive the grace within them to make change and find back life. You will then live your life going forward on these truths and never forget them or let them go as they are your way to life. Always lay hold of repentance when you miss the mark and invite Jesus to mediate on your behalf.

This is because as John pointed out we will sin unknowingly by default because our hearts are prone to deception. We need to be smart enough to come to Jesus the way out from sin who will save us and free us of the death cycle.

In 1John John does not say we should be continually sinning as a practice as this indicates we are of the devil. However when we do sin, or err which we will do we should repent quickly. Receive forgiveness and cleansing from all unrighteousness.

James was not as Judas who never came back to serve Jesus, He was a faithful man but an error of pride cost him his destiny because he did not go on to correct that mistake. These lessons are written to help us navigate life free of these types of errors.

We need to be more open to the correction of the Holy Spirit and be quick to turn and change course when we miss it. This is so we don’t lose out because of our foolish pride and refusal to drop it and go on to recover life in Jesus.

May you walk humbly before your God as John went on to do and have a life loaded with all God has for you happening for you daily and you go on to fulfill completely His assignment for your life in Jesus’ name. Amen.

The Holy Spirit says why are you looking to men as your support and help when you have Him as your more than enough help in every situation. To rely on man is a curse and to trust the arm of flesh is like relying on the wind that would blow you away. Jeremiah.17:5-8 The Holy Spirit is our help in times of trouble and times of success. For this reason we need to remember what our strength and strong tower of refuge is. Psalm.46:1-3

The Lord will give you men to support you and be an encouragement to carry out the work you are called to do but they are not your support and refuge. They must never become your place of succour and help in times of need . The Holy Spirit must become your closest and most trusted friend and support in life and your go to place for relief and answers. Certainly this area will be tested in your life by the Lord to know your heart.Genesis.23:12.

The Lord alone wants to be the One to whom you look to for refuge and support, not men. The Holy Spirit today reminded me of David when he was on a mission in 1 Samuel.30:6 Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.

Now David came home to an invasion of all they had in Ziklag and all they had was gone. In this particular encounter all the men who were a support and help to David thought of killing him. However David had to remember that his trust was not in the men he had as an army, but in the Lord who had called him. As David proceeded to encourage himself in the Lord his God.

The Lord he trusted then gave him the way out of that dilemma as he inquired of the Lord. This plan involved the recovery of all that was robbed from them and much spoil in addition. The Lord always turns adversity against us to times of absolute triumph. 2 Chronicles.20:25-30.

It is not that God did not want David to have the support of those men who God had sent to help him, but the Lord wanted David not to rely on the men but on the God who had called him to be the King.

The Lord’s desire was for David to depend solely on Him and not on the support of the men. It is very often a very fine line between trusting what God gives us to help us win and trusting God Himself to be our go to in all situations.

This is because when we see men we feel we have the help ready and available but the Lord we do not see and have to reach out by faith to seek Him and get an answer through prayer. That is more difficult because we have to depend on our faith, which is not seen naturally. However, our faith is what is necessary if we are to remain on top of things in life as this keeps us connected to God. Hebrews.11:6.

I told my closest friend in a season of great physical attack and an enemy barrage/siege that seeking God to find out about a healing and His solution in that situation is far better than consulting a doctor for a diagnosis because the doctor on his finest day, even a Christian doctor. The doctor can be moved by the enemy and the complex symptoms then make mistakes because he is influenced by what he sees.

However the Lord would give her an answer of peace and the friend heeded that counsel and did not consult a doctor. Rather she heeded the word, trusted the Lord and today is alive and well because the Lord brought her out of what no human doctor could have had a solution for.

Today she now has a story of deliverance of the ability of the Holy Spirit to deliver from death and uses it to see others freed for enemy attacks.

What I am sharing with you today by the Holy Spirit is the true advantage we have in the Lord as our go to in time of need. Most definitely the Lord wants our seeking Him for the answer to be our primary source of help.

You will notice that Jesus Himself from the Gospels regardless of the wonderful disciples He picked by the Holy Spirit all left Him at His most vulnerable time. However Jesus still said my Father is with me and will see me through. The Father went on to raise Him from the dead.

Jesus in His hour of trial could not rely on His closest three disciples to watch Him pray in the garden of Gethsemane but they fell asleep. However just watch how the Holy Spirit gave Him strength to carry through to victory and triumph. This is where the Lord wants us to live in complete reliance on the Holy Spirit for all things.

Even the Apostle Paul faced that situation when he spoke that in his first defence all men forsook him but the Lord stood by him and delivered him from his enemies 2 Timothy.4:16-18. This is the greatest strength we will ever have to be able to go to God ourselves and have Him bring us through by the power of the Holy Spirit.

May you today through the grace imparted through these words find the ability to look to the Lord and rely on the Holy Spirit as your first go to in every situation in life. Let Him in every incident in life be your answer so you don’t have to lose relationships in order to learn this reality in life. The Lord wants us to love Him with all our hearts, souls and bodies for this is the first commandment.

When you look at that instruction there is no room for our desires in our hearts for anything that God does not want,so we must be willing to give Him our all to have His all. I recall when the Holy Spirit spoke this to me and told me to surrender all the desires I had as a child which satan was now wanting to fulfill in my life to rob me of my God reward.

I asked forgiveness of the Lord for wanting those things and the Lord caused me to be delivered from things in that season that could have ruined my progression in the things of the Holy Spirit and robbed me of much of my rewards for walking righteously.

Jesus gave His all to accomplish the will of the Father and the Father gave His all to Jesus to rule with Him in the position of Glory eternally. What an honor that we have been granted the privilege to share in that position of glory if we give Him all our hearts in Jesus’ name. Amen.