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The wonderful Holy Spirit this morning in my communion time with Him reminded me of the Father’s unfailing love towards us and asked me to share again this word He gave me before as a reminder to you as attacks and satanic barraging has increased to scare you to give in and abort the birthing.

Well the Holy Spirit wants you to know today that doing that is not an option (this is why He is stepping in today to remind you of His word spoken before to you) and you need to go back and meditate on what the Holy Spirit said again because you will be the recipient of the fulfilled promise of God for your life. Be ready to push the baby out and focus on the joy of birthing not the process you have been through and let these words minister grace and healing to you in Jesus name. Amen.

This morning the Holy Spirit reminded me of the faithfulness of the Father to fulfill what He has promised and said He wants to know why we think anything other than what God has said will happen.

Does the Holy Spirit listen to the voice of those opposing you or those angry or jealous of you to determine whether He will do what He said or not? Is the Holy Spirit dependent on what people say or think before He can fulfill the promise He said?

“The Holy Spirit made it perfectly clear to me that nothing can stop Him doing in our lives what He said, but our thought pattern on the matter can hinder the work of manifestation of the hand of God on our behalf and we need to watch out and make sure we are lining up with thus saith the Lord rather than thus saith our adversary.”

We should never yield to the fear of our enemies because it is a reflection of our questioning of God’s ability to pull off what He said.

The Holy Spirit spoke these words to me from Isaiah.66:9 Will I open the womb and not deliver? I have made this place labor in terrible pain, But do you think I won’t help it give birth? That is what I, the Eternal One have to say.

We are brought into a conversation that is going on with the Lord, and we are now listening to God give His take on what is happening and how He views this event. I learnt a long time ago that what God thinks and speaks are always true and that those things are what we must adopt and do regardless of what we thought or believed previously.

I change my mind instantly when I know what God thinks about any matter and line up with His will because this means, I will live to experience what He is saying if I only line up with Him.

Let’s dive into the heart of God expressed here because there is so much life, love and might flowing from His words that lifts even dust to live as beauty again. “The womb God said I created to bring forth children not to prevent children being birthed, so why would I open the womb and not deliver the baby?” “We are to consider that fact carefully and make a decision on what we choose to believe about it.”

Remember Sarah the wife of Abraham who was barren and only conceived at 90 years old and who caused her to birth Issac. Was it Abraham suddenly gaining extraordinary might and wisdom that reversed her barrenness? No, certainly not, it was this same God who said to both of them that they would have a son the next year and both Abraham and Sarah were in shock and almost could not believe it.

However since God created the womb to bear children He could easily reactivate Sarah’s barren womb to easily carry Issac and bring Him to birth which she went on to do as the Holy Spirit had promised.

“God created the womb to deliver and deliver is what the womb will do period !!! It is we who need to believe this because God does not change the function of something to spite or hurt us.”

“We need to settle that reality in our hearts and minds today and remain steadfast. Jesus always remains the same yesterday, today and forever. He does not change.”

“ He remains faithful to what He created by saying what He wanted it to do and it must obey His orders.” No questions asked. “I God made this place labor in pain. I watched what pain and agony has been expended in this process to where you are now.

The struggles you have worked through, the attacks you have weathered, the storms of life you have triumphed over and now you are at the finish line and I God now faint, or lose strength and power and might and cannot see you through to manifest the promise. No Never!

So why do you entertain the thought that I will not come through for you. Jesus often said to people why do you take that thought saying, after you heard what I just said to you. Peter fell to negative thoughts immediately after he accepted Jesus’ invitation to come walk on the water which Peter actually did do.

Jesus asked him when he accepted a contrary thought, why did you doubt, you should not have allowed that negative thought to take over what you had originally believed Jesus said, and change thoughts to line up with what would make you fail, which then began to transpire with him as he began to sink.

“You see God always wants you to believe right to the end because we are sure that His nature and character will never change and that He will always faithfully come through on His promise to us.” “That thought that He will never fail us about anything He is and says He will do or created something to do a job will never fail.”

Have you noticed that the sun has outlived every human on the earth and has never run short on any fuel to make it continually work regardless of what has happened on earth and it has fulfilled its assignment on the earth faithfully without any help from man to make it run smoothly daily for man on the earth, because when God spoke it into being He placed in it everything necessary to last throughout generations and provide all things necessary for harvests to manifest on behalf of man.

That is what God had to say when man doubted His creative ability concerning the womb bringing forth when challenged that it will not happen. “From God’s view the matter was settled but the Holy Spirit needed man’s cooperation to birth a nation in a day which is what God had determined would happen and all God needed was our agreement not our negative thoughts to complicate and hinder things coming through speedily.”

The Holy Spirit wants you today as you hear these words to lay hold of the grace flowing through them to agree with Him and step out of doubt thoughts on God’s ability to perform and birth His promise to you and go on to believe and accept without question the unswerving and immutable counsel of God concerning you.

“Laugh in the face of any obstacle and ridicule that your enemy raises to say you will come short and not birth what God decreed over you and march fully and completely into your promise with absolute confidence and assurance that the One you trusted is faithful and will keep what He has promised faithfully in Jesus name.”

“ Repent for ever yielding to the thoughts of doubt concerning God’s ability to birth for you what He promised and get back to the place of complete trust in His ability to do for you exceedingly abundantly above all you could ask or think according to His power at work in you.”

God’s power will not work in you when you accommodate the thoughts of the enemy to question God’s ability to help you birth what He has promised you.

“We need to remain steadfast in our belief in what God has said and intends to do, which He God will certainly accomplish for the glory of His name. Go ahead and throw out those negative thoughts and remain immovable about what God said He will do and accomplish for You. Experience the full measure of God’s plan for you with nothing missing and nothing broken in Jesus name. Amen.

This morning in my communion time the Holy Spirit directed me to declare Psalms 144-150 in worship to the Lord. This happens with me on occasions when I have time with the Holy Spirit and I have found that after the declaration of the Psalms I experience a new sphere of glory from the Lord and have a new and greater impact in my life of the Presence of the Holy Spirit.

I recall the time when I was shepherding a group of professionals and the Holy Spirit directed me to instruct them to declare the psalms daily for a month and the wonderful testimonies that happened in each of their lives after obeying those instructions.

There were several financial breakthroughs and work promotions and rising up in work position status as a result of that daily confession of the Psalms.

This morning as I went to the Psalms from 144-150 the Holy Spirit brought me to a pause as I declared Psalm.145:10-12 from the Passion translation of the bible which reads these words: Everything you have made will praise you, fulfilling its purpose. And all your godly ones will be found bowing before you.11They will tell the world of the lavish splendor of your kingdom and preach about your limitless power.12They will demonstrate for all to see your miracles of might and reveal the glorious majesty of your kingdom.

Now let me share with you some of what the Holy Spirit went on to share with me as I declared these words of life. Everything God made has the responsibility to praise the Lord as it fulfills the purpose God intended it to do on the earth.

Remember with the Lord there is always a cause and purpose for everything and the Holy Spirit always announces it before it happens. Jesus spoke of the stones rising up to praise Him as He marched triumphantly into Jerusalem when He was questioned by the Jewish leaders about why He accepted the praises of the people in Matthew.19:40 But He answered and said to them, “I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.”

Now we should never fail in our responsibility to offer the Lord our sacrifice of praise which is the fruit of our lips continually as we don’t want stones to replace us and gain our due reward.

Next we as God’s people and followers should be found in a position of bowing to our Master in surrender just as we see happen continually in heaven as John recorded in the book of Revelation of the heavenly elders before the Throne of God.

They cast their crowns before Him in submission and total adulation of His superior position, not flaunt them before Him in pride. Salient lesson for us all to heed.This is our position of surrender the Holy Spirit pointed out to me in reverence to the Awesomeness of the nature and Person of the Lord.

Now the next response after bowing in humility before the Lord is the exalted position that is bestowed upon the recipient who bows in surrender to the Lord for service is that we are then given a responsibility to carry out on the earth.

This responsibility is to be witnesses of the lavish splendor of the kingdom to the world by demonstration and preaching about the limitless power of the Lord.

The Holy Spirit harped on this reality that we need to preach on how great God is and not our weakness and failures to obey Him so men can decide for themselves as they witness the incomparable power of the Lord rather than the weakness of man. We must share just how great God is and what He is able to accomplish and not our failures in the process of serving Him.

Just look at verse.12 We are to demonstrate for all to see the miracles of God’s might and thus reveal the glorious majesty of Jesus’s Kingdom here on earth.

As I have been prophesying by the Holy Spirit in my posts we are in the season where we will see the faith of Jesus at work in the life of His followers and lovers by unprecedented miracles, signs and wonders that will startle men at the greatness of who Jesus actually is and the reign of His Kingdom on earth for men to see and turn to Him for refuge and deliverance in life.

We need to be living in a place of total surrender and humility before the Lord so the Holy Spirit can grace us with everything necessary to walk in the place of triumph the Lord has ordained and purposed for us to walk in the now of life.

As I declared these words before the Lord you can now see why I say my sphere of glory rose because this plan had been declared by king David about what the Lord would do with His followers in these latter days that would far outweigh what He had done in the past through His chosen servants.

The Holy Spirit is pointing out that this is not a new plan of the Lord’s but the season of the fulfilling of an ancient plan God always had ready to manifest for the deliverance and saving of men’s souls which He would impart on His lovers and followers to do to demonstrate the knowledge of His glory on the earth as the waters cover the sea.

“The Lord wants men to be overcome, overrun and overshadowed by the might of the Holy Spirit’s power on earth.”

I pray today that as you hear these words your spirits will be quickened to the time and season you are in and take swift action through the grace supplied through these words to reposition yourselves back in full alignment to bowing in humility and seeking with your whole hearts the Lord to be ready to partake of this move of the Holy Spirit.

Repent of every way in which you are coming short and do not fear to confess your weakness to the Lord because He already knows it but you need to acknowledge it so the Holy Spirit can free you.

This allows for grace to empower you to be fit and able because it is the power of the Lord at work in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. May you seek with all your being the Lord and find all the might He has available for you so that your life will be a true representation of His glory on earth for men to see and turn to Him in Jesus name thus expanding His kingdom on earth of which there is no end in Jesus name. Amen.

This beautiful morning the Holy Spirit reminded me of the faithfulness of God towards my life in my communion time with Him. He reminded me that He was the One who called me and chose me to be a representative of His on this earth to demonstrate the splendor of His Majesty and the magnificence of His Almighty and All Powerful name.

As He visited with me today He asked me to share with you the reality of everything you have believed about the plan of God for your life. It is He the Lord that gave the promise of what He said you would be and will fulfill what He declared about you just as He fulfilled every word He spoke about Joseph and David in the bible regardless of what their family believed about the magnitude of that promise.

You must, the Holy Spirit said, remember that the reason for you believing what you believe is the promise that God spoke to you about, when you were not even contemplating being anything in God but just content to live a normal uneventful life serving the Lord in a small way.

It is the promise that God gave you that has brought so much conflict in your life and made you a target of such hatred and unprecedented satanic attack and hounding that threatens to extinguish your very existence and make you a bye word.

The Holy Spirit however this morning wants you to know that He the Lord is faithful to perform what He has promised you regardless of what it looks like in the natural realm and make you what He said you will be for His glory. Remember the pressure is on Him to fulfill His word to you and not on you because you never called yourself to that place.

You never possessed the power to make it happen anyway. You need to rest in His ability to perform what He said to you and stop looking at your inability to keep faithful and perform the word the Lord spoke. It is your responsibility to follow the Holy Spirit’s leading, not lead and direct the proceedings.

Focus your mind on the grace the Holy Spirit will supply you to fulfill His promise and not your weaknesses. When the Lord chose you He knew what you were capable of doing and what was necessary to bring you and lift you up to the position He assigned you to be because He the Lord possesses the power and might to make it all happen exactly as He said it will.

Rest your hope fully on the grace the Holy Spirit will supply you to make you capable to achieve His purpose.

In Zechariah.4:6-9 we read these words of the awesome power of the hand of the Lord which you need to heed today and rest in: So he answered and said to me:“This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel:

‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the Lord of hosts. 7 ‘Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone With shouts of “Grace, grace to it!” ’ ”8 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 9 “The hands of Zerubbabel Have laid the foundation of this temple; His hands shall also finish it.Then you will know That the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you.

The Holy Spirit reminded me that we when we look at scripture we almost believe that the God who did this for Zerubbabel is no longer able to do this for us because for some reason we are different and don’t qualify to have the same happen for us.

The Holy Spirit wants you to dispel that lie from your heart and mind and be assured that the same Holy Spirit that worked with Zerubbabel will work with you to finish the work the Lord started out with your hands and you will know at the completion of the project the Lord started with you, was accomplished by the mighty hand of the Lord working in and through you.

What Zerubbabel faced daily was real to complete that assignment God gave him but he yielded to the grace given him by the Holy Spirit and defied the edicts of men and went on to build what the Lord said and accomplish a marvel in the most difficult and trying of situations and glorified the name of the Lord in His time and season of the Lord for his life. Take some time and meditate on Zechariah.4 today and refresh your soul.

Today I pray that as you hear these words your life will be ignited again to return to the place of building and completing what the Lord ordained and purposed for you to do to glorify His Holy name.

Let the grace in these words so empower you back to action in the Spirit and propel you forward to the place where you lay hold of the promise of God for your life and experience rich fulfillment of the promise of God and live it out for men to see just as Zerubbabel did and you have a comparable miracle happen in your life of that magnitude that reminds you that the Lord you chose to follow is still the same miracle worker He was in the Old Covenant and still accomplishes His will in the life of His followers and lovers.

This is your hour of visitation so buckle your seat belt and be ready to fly in the spirit to overtake, outrun and overshadow everything that has been a hindrance and blockade to you fulfilling the plan of God in your life in Jesus name. Amen.

The Holy Spirit in my communion time with Him this morning pointed out that I should share this word again below with you as it is vital to your moving forward at this point in time and it will be the catalyst to propel you forward at this time though you feel you can’t handle any more and want to quit.

Quitting is never an option when the Holy Spirit has declared triumph concerning you so today square your shoulders and pick up your courage and agree with the Lord that you will not fail, but come out with a resounding song of deliverance that will become the theme song of your walk with God.

The Holy Spirit does this reminding for us, when the time for manifestation is imminent and we need that extra boost of grace to go beyond our normal threshold which satan cannot understand because he always trips and gets us at that point. The Holy Spirit however wants a new us to emerge showing just how great our Jesus is who helps us win over the most trying times so the testimony is even sweeter.

In my fellowship time with the Holy Spirit this morning He showed me a banner with the words “You will not Fail” being lifted up high as the new standard bearer. Now when the Holy Spirit gives a picture or vision the first response I came to learn was not to assume you understand it and know what He is saying regardless of what you have seen or known in the past, but to ask what are you saying Lord though it looks obvious?

You may ask why ask, as it seems so clear so why do I need to look closer ? Never opt for presumption as it can destroy your testimony. Make sure you understand what the Lord is saying and ask questions to clarify your position. Well in the book of Revelation.4 John sees set before the throne of God, which I have mentioned in a previous post.

Where it talks of the elders in heaven being “full of eyes in the front, in the back, around and within which points out that God’s view is complete and all encompassing which we do not possess.” So we need to see from God’s perspective in order to know what He is saying and interpret it correctly.

In asking Him what He is saying the Holy Spirit then pointed out a series of events which have happened in your lives which seem to indicate that the persons for who this word is imperative have had many failures, twists and turns in this matter and the final result looks like they will not come out victorious and their faith and trust in the Lord will fail them.

The Lord unfortunately is late and will not on this occasion be able to bring you through,because it is too late and the time for coming out has elapsed. Well I have news for you that is so loud and clear in the Spirit. “You will not fail”. This means that regardless of what is there in the natural oppressing you will have to change and line up with the triumphant song that the Lord has granted on your behalf.

Now that is a completely different perspective from our human view and that is why we need to trust the version of the Holy Spirit above anything else that raises itself up against what the Lord said in judgment. So Arise and rejoice that it will be as the Holy Spirit has spoken concerning you.

In my prayer time last night the Holy Spirit spoke to me of songs of deliverance that we would be singing and pointed out to me the season when Miriam brought out the tambourine to rejoice as the horse and rider had been thrown into the sea and the Egyptian army that was following with chariots had been destroyed and God’s people saw them no more.

The chase was over permanently and the word the Lord had spoken to them before the pursuit through Moses that these Egyptians you see now you will never see again had come to pass, though that never seemed possible.

They did not even have to fight or do anything but walk across the Red Sea which had been parted on their behalf by the Hand of the Lord and they went on to experience so great a testimony that even today stands as a banner of light of just how great the Lord is in delivering His people from their enemies.

Today the Holy Spirit is saying “You will not fail” so what has been pursuing you and seemingly winning will fail and you will come out victorious and triumphant with a new song of deliverance radiating the glory of the Lord in manifestation for which you will sing new songs of the deliverance with exuberant shouts of joy and pleasure in Jesus name. Amen.

This morning in my communion time the Holy Spirit reminded me of the words of Luke to Theophilus when He complied the Book of Luke and the Acts.1:1-3 The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, 2 until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, 3 to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.

I have therefore shared again words the Holy Spirit gave earlier for your refreshment and remembrance of the infallable Jesus you serve and how this word will never stop producing for you God fruit because it still lives to empower , promote and bring honour to your life. Let the Holy Spirit have His say ,His way and His day in your life today as you go forth and bear fruit for the Kingdom in Jesus name. Amen.

The Holy Spirit this morning spoke to me in my communion time with Him about having the determination of heart and soul that says I will be a carrier of the notable miracles of God for people to see and thus turn to God.

“It is one thing to believe what God can do but to manifest who God is the place the Holy Spirit wants us to walk in on a daily basis.” “The Holy Spirit wants us to be able to say what God wants and go right ahead and prove what God said for all to see.”

Let us look at some examples of this principle at work. In Luke.8:52-56 Now all wept and mourned for her; but He said, “Do not weep; she is not dead, but sleeping.” 53 And they ridiculed Him, knowing that she was dead. 54 But He put them all outside, took her by the hand and called, saying, “Little girl, arise.” 55 Then her spirit returned, and she arose immediately. And He commanded that she be given something to eat. 56 And her parents were astonished, but He charged them to tell no one what had happened.

In this situation of death Jesus goes on to say what God’s true picture of it is that she is only sleeping, but men view death differently and they turn from mourning to scorning Jesus with ridicule at his absurd conclusion. Jesus in turn throws them out and goes on to prove His point emphatically by raising her up and proving she was only sleeping and says tell no one.

The funeral they were mourning for doesn’t happen and no grave is dug and the girl is playing outside and You say tell no one. The proof was so clear no one needed to say a word. Its notable presence everybody could see and have only one conclusion: Jesus knew what He was saying and proved it by action not just words.

In Luke.13:10-13 Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. 11 And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and could in no way raise herself up. 12 But when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said to her, “Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.” 13 And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. Jesus again heals a woman bound by satan for eighteen years by calling her forward and showing His power over satan in the presence of doubters and hypocrites by making her straight again.

Now look at their complaint and how Jesus destroys it. Luke.13:14-17 But the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath; and he said to the crowd, “There are six days on which men ought to work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day.”

15 The Lord then answered him and said, “Hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it? 16 So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound—think of it—for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?” 17

And when He said these things, all His adversaries were put to shame; and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by Him.

I love how Jesus shed light on the truth for everybody to see. You will rescue your donkey and give it water but a woman bound who has been coming to the house of God eighteen years and is still bound, does not deserve to be healed today because it is sabbath and puts you to shame because you were unable to help her.

She finally gets help and is freed and you are upset that she is now capable again of living which is her right as a daughter of Abraham and actually say it. Infallible proofs are what Jesus used to silence the voice of enemies and it worked every time and that is the place the Holy Spirit wants us to walk in to prove the reality of God’s heart in situations for all to see.

Now let’s look at Peter in Acts.3:6-10 Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” 7 And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. 8 So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them—walking, leaping, and praising God. 9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God. 10 Then they knew that it was he who sat begging alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

Peter heals the man at the beautiful gate and he is up and running and will no longer need to come begging from the gate and what do we have complaints again.

Acts.3:11&12 1 Now as the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch which is called Solomon’s, greatly amazed. 12 So when Peter saw it, he responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? What are you all shocked about and acting strange don’t you know the truth that we have Jesus working with us and can give people freedom from tears of pain because He is alive.

Acts.3:16 And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. The name of Jesus has power to deliver at any time and it is faith in His name that has done this marvelous deed which you all can bear witness to.

Look at the statement of the enemies in Acts.4:16&17 saying, “What shall we do to these men? For, indeed, that a notable miracle has been done through them is evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. 17 But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them, that from now on they speak to no man in this name.” I love it when the Lord answers with what no one can deny. We hate it but have to admit it Jesus is great and everybody can see it. It is clearly a notable miracle and it cannot be disproved or spoken evil off.

That my dear brethren is what the Holy Spirit wants you to strive to be a Carrier of in your lifetime. A person that proves by action that is notable: the reality of Jesus for men to see through signs,wonders and miracles that cannot be denied.

I pray that today that as you allow these words to take root in you, grace will be supplied to you by the Holy Spirit to become a carrier of the notable miracles of Jesus which will change society and bring great expansion to the Kingdom of Jesus as it did when it happened then.

May your hearts be so stirred to action that you pursue the Lord wholeheartedly until this becomes the reality in your everyday life in Jesus name. Amen.

I have found that the Holy Spirit continues to remind us at various points in time of words He has spoken to us to be ready when the time of manifestation arrives so we don’t miss out on what He promised. The Holy Spirit helps us lay hold of the inheritance Jesus made available for us. In my communion time this morning the Holy Spirit brought back to me this word He had spoken and said Ishould share it.

May you today find yourself positioned where the Lord wants you and out and away from a vehicle you should not be riding in which leads to death and nothingness in jesus name. Amen

The Holy Spirit said to me this morning in my private time with Him, do I want to ride with Him further where He is in His vehicle of glory or remain in the place of just enough, not the overflowing bounty of His oceans of glory. You will ask so where have you been riding?

I have been riding daily with the direction and guidance of the Holy Spirit but He wants us to be completely overtaken by His Presence and producing an outpouring of the Anointing of the Holy Spirit that changes Nations in a day and makes righteousness the desire of the hearts of men.

It speaks of riding with the Lord on the heights of the earth in Isaiah.58:13&14 “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, From doing your pleasure on My holy day, And call the Sabbath a delight, The holy day of the Lord honorable, And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, Nor finding your own pleasure,Nor speaking your own words,14 Then you shall delight yourself in the Lord; And I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth,And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father.The mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

Let us journey with the Holy Spirit on this level place that He controls and directs so that we can partake of everything He says we can have and experience the fullness of God. Sabbath or the day of rest is very important to God in fact God in Genesis.2:1-3 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

He starts His relationship with man from the seventh day which is when He rested and called us to enter that rest with Him.

Man was not involved in the work of the creation process till the seventh day the rest of God where all things worked.

From the Holy Spirit’s perspective sabbath is a time of delighting ourselves in the Lord completely and giving Him our undivided attention.

Now the thing I love so much about the Lord is that He spells it out clearly for us what He wants and requires us to do and what He will then do for us as we obey. Look what He requests we do:stop doing what pleases you on My day and start calling doing Me your delight, and the holy day of the Lord honorable by not doing your own ways, that is the thoughts, opinions you take and then carry out that become a way for you that always leads to death. Cease from doing that.

Not finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words. Your words are not Spirit and life as Jesus pointed out in John.6:63

So stop speaking them and only speak thus says the Lord and watch the difference in results. God’s words on your mouth produce life and change circumstances.

When this happens that you are delighting in the Lord, not just calling it a delight this is when you will start riding where God rides on the heights and high places of the earth. The place where you begin to influence what happens in nations and determine the results that happen.

When you find this place in God with the Holy Spirit you begin walking and riding where God rides in His chariots of fire and Divine control of all situations and affairs in life.

This is the place of supreme glory that the Holy Spirit wants all disciples of Jesus to walk in: The all authority that Jesus Has over everything in heaven and on earth. In Hebrews.4:9-11 we are told There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. 10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.

I came to see that even John in the book of revelation got those mighty words on the Lord’s day which is sabbath where He was alone , by himself with no distractions but could focus completely on the Lord and just look at his results. Finding the place of rest in what God has done and already completed is the greatest place to walk in because you are on a roll and ride with and by God and therefore cannot fail if you remain riding there.

I pray that as you have heard these words of truth the grace to walk in them will be supplied to you and you will take the action to sabbath delight with the Lord and come into the place where you ride with the Lord in His place and experience life from His Perspective while riding in His vehicle. He hides you in the secret place of His Pavillion from the strife of tongues and the secret place of His Presence from the plots of men. The place Jesus walked that men could not harm or touch Him.

May you be enriched by the potency of these truths that propels you into the magnificence of His glory that will radiate through you and bring full glory to His magnificent Name as you bear much fruit that remains in Jesus name. Amen.

In my communion time with the Holy Spirit this morning He shared with me again the importance of us building ourselves up on our most holy faith by praying in the Holy Spirit. He emphasized the reality that it is not a physical, human building but a spiritual enlarging and magnification which produces phenominal results in the natural realm.

It is not how you feel after praying in the Spirit that matters but what you gain in the spiritual realm that counts. How you measure your results determines the benefit you will get from what you have done. Stop looking at the natural to determine what progress you think you have made and thus lose courage to keep your prayer in the Spirit as a regular part of your spiritual arsenal and begin to lose ground.

Make the correct spiritual assesments of your progress and follow through what the Lord has promised you gain when you pray continually in the Spirit and all will be well. When you take spiritual action you will fully appreciate what you gained by doing it faithfully. Allow the words below to stir you back up to action which the Holy Spirit directed I should share again to stir your hearts in remembrance to lay hold of. Then go on to experience what is before you in the now to lay hold off it and reap the benefits of what God planned for you in Jesus name. Stop losing out on what you have worked for in jesus name.

The Holy Spirit this morning wants you to know that He is not relying on you to do or be anything for God, but for you to depend upon Him to empower you to be what God created you to be. The Holy Spirit wants you to look to Him for the boldness you need to be effective for the Kingdom. Even if you believe you are eloquent, your eloquence will not cut it in the Kingdom.

You will need more than eloquence of speech to defeat the works of the devil. In the book of Acts.4:29 it reads Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, 30 by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”

After an attack of the devil to force the Apostles to stop speaking in the name of Jesus we see them pray a prayer that must be our daily cry before the Lord. “We need to be able to speak with all the boldness that flows from the Holy Spirit to us the word of the Lord.”

“It is one thing to speak the word with your voice but a complete difference when you speak that same word by the unction of the Holy Spirit which will produce life in the darkest and most death-filled environment.”

“Words spoken by the Holy Spirit will always radiate light and bring forth life into any darkness and change chaos and bring order.”

Look again at the request of the Apostles and watch for the Answer the Holy Spirit gives because this is what we need to be looking for in our lives daily. Grant that your servants may speak your word with all boldness. Not with some boldness or in timidity or trepidation but in all boldness with no boldness left out.

“We should not speak for the Lord coming short in any boldness that the Holy Spirit has, but loaded with all the boldness that He possesses and carries which will bring answers of great magnitude.”

“The boldness of speech has direct correlation to the stretching out of the hand of God to heal and then the production of signs and wonders to be done through the hand of the Holy Spirit for the glory of the name of Jesus.”

Without the boldness of speech flowing from the Holy Spirit through you you will not see the miraculous power of God made manifest to heal, deliver and bring freedom.

“It is imperative that we request from the Lord through the Holy Spirit for the boldness to speak the word and then we will see the manifestation of the hand of the Lord.” It is not by might, nor by power but by My Spirit says the Lord.

“Our shouting will not cut through the enemy but being loaded with the boldness of the Holy Spirit will break through any and every obstacle.”

Let’s look at the results from this prayer for boldness. Acts.4:31 And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness. Most times in church the people do all the shaking and activity but here we see the Holy Spirit shaking the place and boldness overtaking the people and the results are stunning as the word is spoken boldly. Acts.4:32-37

Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul; neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. 33 And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all. 34 Nor was there anyone among them who lacked; for all who were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold, 35 and laid them at the apostles’ feet; and they distributed to each as anyone had need.

36 And Joses, who was also named Barnabas by the apostles (which is translated Son of Encouragement), a Levite of the country of Cyprus, 37 having land, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

Firstly the agreement we see in the disciples is awesome and we have not seen that level of union in our day where we have every soul present having the same heart and soul and relinquishing their ownership of possessions for the common good of all.

The Apostles manifest the tangible presence of the resurrection power of Jesus that people see and grace is imparted to people that removes poverty and any lack in the life of every believer as resources from owners of lands and property was sold to remove the burden of lack on their brothers and sisters and everybody’s needs were met.

Life changed in a minute and all disciples’ financial problems were sorted out and no one was in any lack while others boasted of their wealth and how good God was to only them. There was corporate deliverance.

“I pray we see that again in our day as the Holy Spirit is permitted by us to do such marvels as we boldly declare the word of God and let the Hand of the Lord manifest as it did then.”

I pray that as you hear these words today the Holy Spirit will ignite in you a fire and passion to pursue after this grace which will bring an awakening to God of boldness that speaks as God and goes on to manifest Him in such dimensions that all have to say the Lord has visited and we are living in the days of the Lord in full manifestation. May you be found passionately pursuing this reality of the Holy Spirit in this day in Jesus name. Amen.

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