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The central point of this revelation from the Lord is that the Holy Spirit has been given to us by the Father to guide us into the fullness of the Lord’s truth, purpose, provision, and glory to operate in our lives.

We must purposefully learn to cooperate with Him by remaining humble, available, sensitive, and obedient to His leading because the more deliberately we yield to His direction, the more fully we will experience what the Lord has prepared for our lives. The Holy Spirit’s primary role is to guide us into all Truth.

This message begins with a clear reminder of Jesus’ teaching concerning the specific ministry of the Holy Spirit in John 16:12–15 where Jesus explained that there were still many things His disciples needed to know but that they could not yet bear them.

However, when the Spirit of truth came, He would guide them into all truth, by speaking what He heard from Jesus, by revealing things to come, thus glorifying Jesus, and taking what belongs to Christ and declaring it to His followers. Since everything the Father has belongs to Jesus, the Holy Spirit makes the riches and realities of Christ known to us. This means that no matter how much truth we already have received, we must never become satisfied with our present level of understanding.

We are to remain humble students of the truth, by continually pursuing greater illumination and learning how the Lord’s truth is intended to operate in and through our lives. The Holy Spirit determines when further illumination is needed, so our responsibility is to remain available and sensitive to His guidance because He knows what we need to understand next and when we are ready to receive it.

Our deliberate decision to minister to the Lord creates room for Him to reveal our new direction. A powerful example is found in Acts 13:2 which reads these words:“ Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” This passage describes Paul, Barnabas, and others ministering to the Lord and fasting.

Significantly, the passage does not say that the Holy Spirit initially instructed them to set aside time that day. They themselves chose to minister to the Lord and added fasting to their devotion. This event reveals an important spiritual practice of the fact that we are kings and priests unto the Lord, and because of this reality ministering to the Lord is part of our priestly responsibility.

Therefore, we should deliberately establish times when we withdraw from other activities simply to minister to the Lord. The result of Paul and Barnabas taking this time was astonishing because it was while they ministered to the Lord, that the Holy Spirit spoke a new direction for their lives. They were separated from their familiar role within the local church and commissioned into a greater assignment by the Holy Spirit.

Their ministry was about to expand beyond the boundaries of their established church environment and reach much broader spheres of human life with the message of the Kingdom. The Holy Spirit was moving them into places where they would influence communities, workplaces, governments, and people far beyond the believers they had previously ministered to.

The Holy Spirit always leads us into greater dimensions of the Lord’s assignment for our lives. What happened in Acts 13 demonstrates the Holy Spirit guiding Paul and Barnabas into a greater understanding of the mission the Lord had appointed to them and reveals how their obedience to His leading would expand the reach of the Kingdom of Jesus.

The new assignment would expose them to vastly greater numbers of people and would be accompanied by remarkable miracles, signs, and wonders. These supernatural manifestations would testify that they had obeyed the truth and moved forward with the Holy Spirit.

The Kingdom would consequently begin to affect spheres of influence beyond the church, even reaching into the governmental and public life of the world around them. The Holy Spirit was acting upon what Jesus had already spoken concerning Paul’s calling to reach the Gentiles and bear His name before kings.

That assignment could never have been fulfilled if Paul had remained permanently within the familiar environment of church ministry, continually ministering to the same believers and the people they brought into the church week after week.

I declare that your eyes are being opened to the ministry and leadership of the Holy Spirit. You will no longer remain stagnant in an old understanding when the Spirit of truth is calling you into greater revelation. You receive grace to remain a humble student of the truth, by continually learning, discerning, and understanding the things of the Lord.

I declare that you will make room to minister to the Lord, and as you seek Him, the Holy Spirit will speak clearly to you concerning your next assignment, your present positioning, and the things to come. You will recognise every divine shift in your life and you will not resist the transition into the greater purpose of the Lord for your life.

I declare that the Holy Spirit is bringing you back into alignment with the centre of Jesus’ will for you as every misplaced step is being corrected, every lost opportunity is being redeemed according to the Lord’s purpose, and your lost years are being recovered by the grace of God in Jesus name. Amen.

Today I present you the conclusion of my communion time with the Holy Spirit on us being carriers of the notable miracles of the Lord.

Let us take a look at Peter as he became a carrier of a notable miracle in Acts 3:6-10 at the Beautiful Gate, where Peter encountered a man who had been lame for thirty eight years. Peter simply told him these words: “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.” Peter then took him by the right hand and lifted him up.

Immediately, the man’s feet and ankle bones received strength. He leaped up, stood, walked, and entered the temple with Peter and John, walking, leaping, and praising God. Everyone saw him and the people knew this was the same man who had previously sat begging at the Beautiful Gate, and they were filled with wonder and amazement because the man was no longer dependent upon begging people for survival at the beautiful gate because his condition had been completely transformed.

In Acts 3:11-12, the healed man held onto Peter and John, as the astonished crowd gathered around them but Peter immediately corrected their perception as they were amazed at the miracle that just took place. Peter then asked why they were marvelling and looking at them as though they had caused the man to walk by their own power or godliness because Peter knew that the miracle was not about his human ability. It was about the demonstration of Jesus working through them.

Peter then explained further in Acts 3:16 that it was the name of Jesus, through faith in His name, that had made the man strong. Yes the faith that comes through Jesus had given the man his perfect soundness in the presence of everyone. The miracle therefore became a public demonstration of the power of the living Jesus. Peter was not interested in people concluding that he possessed some extraordinary personal ability. He only wanted them to recognise that the name of Jesus has the power to deliver, and that faith in His name had produced this marvellous and undeniable work.

The impact becomes even clearer in Acts 4:16-17. When the religious authorities considered what to do about Peter and John, as they acknowledged something remarkable by saying these words: “A notable miracle has been done through them is evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.” This is the kind of testimony the Holy Spirit wants to produce through the lives of His people today as witnesses to the resurrection of Jesus from the grave.

The enemies did not want the message of Jesus to spread, but they could not deny the evidence. So they had to admit that a notable miracle had occurred because everyone could see it. Their response was therefore not intended to disprove the miracle because they could not, however it was used to threaten Peter and John so that they would stop speaking in the name of Jesus. This fact of manifesting Jesus through the miraculous demonstrates the power of visible, undeniable evidence. When the Lord manifests His power through His people, even those who oppose the message will be forced to acknowledge what they have witnessed.

Their attitude becomes this that We do not like it, but we have to admit it. Jesus is great, and everybody can see what He has done. This fact is the challenge and invitation of this message through the Holy Spirit which is for us to become a carrier of notable miracles. The goal is not merely to discuss miracles, admire miracles, read about miracles, or believe that miracles happened in biblical times. The Holy Spirit wants us as followers of Jesus to become vessels through whom the reality of Jesus is demonstrated to people through signs, wonders, and miracles that cannot be denied.

The purpose of the miraculous is not for our personal fame or spiritual reputation. The purpose is that people will see the reality of Jesus and turn back toward serving the Lord. Jesus demonstrated the Father’s heart by His actions. Peter demonstrated the power of Jesus through the healing at the Beautiful Gate. The result was that people saw something they could not dismiss. The Holy Spirit therefore wants our determination to become: “I will be a carrier of the notable miracles of Jesus in my generation.”

This reality requires more than a passive belief because it requires a heart stirred into action with a willingness to pursue the Lord wholeheartedly, by hearing what He is saying, obeying what He directs, and allowing His power to operate through us. Always remember that the purpose Is Kingdom Expansion. The prayer of the message is that as these truths take root, in us the Holy Spirit will supply the grace to make us carriers of the notable miracles of Jesus.

These manifestations are not intended merely to make individuals marvel. They are meant to change society, transform lives, and expand the Kingdom of Jesus, just as the miracles in the book of Acts contributed to the spread of the Gospel. The Holy Spirit wants our hearts so stirred that we pursue the Lord wholeheartedly until this is no longer merely something we read about in Scripture but what becomes a daily reality in our lives.

The ultimate objective is that through our yielded lives, people will encounter undeniable demonstrations of the reality, goodness, authority, and power of Jesus Christ—and the Kingdom of Jesus will be expanded for His glory. It is one thing to believe what the Lord can do but it is another thing to manifest who the Lord is through demonstration.

The Holy Spirit is calling us to walk beyond passive faith into active demonstration. We are to become vessels who hear the Lord’s heart, act upon His word, and allow Him to prove His declarations through our lives. So just as Like Jesus raising the little girl in Luke 8:52-56, we are to demonstrate the Lord’s perspective in situations where natural circumstances appear final. Like Jesus healing the woman in Luke 13:10-17, we are to demonstrate the Lord’s liberating power over Satan’s oppression.

Like Peter at the Beautiful Gate in Acts 3:6-10, we are to release what we have received from Jesus and allow His name to bring transformation. And like the apostles in Acts 4:16-17, we are to live in such a way that the Lord’s works through us become notable, evident to all, and impossible to deny. The prayer is therefore not simply, “Lord, let me believe in miracles.” But it is: “Lord, make me a carrier of the notable miracles of Jesus.”

In the name of Jesus, I declare that the Holy Spirit is stirring within you a holy determination to become a carrier of the notable miracles of Jesus. Your faith will no longer remain merely a conviction about what the Lord can do but it will become a living demonstration of who the Lord is through your life.

You will hear what the Lord is saying to you and move promptly to prove what He has spoken. You will not be intimidated by circumstances, opposition, unbelief, ridicule, or the limitations of natural reasoning. The reality of the Lord’s hand working through you will become greater to you than the appearance of any situation.

Like Jesus, you will speak the Lord’s perspective into situations that appear hopeless, and the power of the Holy Spirit will confirm His word through your obedience. Like the woman in Luke 13, people who have been bound for years will encounter freedom through the power of Jesus working through you as a yielded vessel. The Lord will make His works through you notable because they will be evident to those around you, and there will be manifestations that cannot be denied.

I declare that even those who oppose you will not be able to disprove what the Lord has done through you. The miracles will not point people to your own power, godliness, reputation, or ability but they will point unmistakably to the name of Jesus. Like the man at the Beautiful Gate, those who have suffered limitation will arise into a new dimension of life, and their transformation will become visible evidence that Jesus is alive.

I declare that grace is being supplied to you now to pursue the Lord wholeheartedly, to become sensitive to His voice, courageous in obedience, and available for His power to flow through you. Your life will become a vessel through which signs, wonders, miracles, deliverances, and demonstrations of the heart of Jesus are made visible. May your life become a testimony that causes people to marvel, then turn toward the Lord, and acknowledge that the hand of the Most High is at work.

May notable miracles through your life bring transformation to individuals, families, communities, and society by contributing to the great expansion of the Kingdom of Jesus. So you will not merely speak about what the Lord can do, because you will become a carrier through whom He demonstrates what He can do. You will not merely tell people that Jesus is alive, but you will live out the evidence that He is alive.

May your heart be stirred, your faith be activated, your hands become yielded, and your life is made available for manifesting the glory of the Lord. From this day forward, may the notable miracles of Jesus become increasingly evident through your life, for the salvation of souls, the transformation of lives, the expansion of His Kingdom, and the glory of His name to cover the earth as the waters cover the sea in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Today I am sharing a portion of my communion time with the Holy Spirit on us being carriers of the notable miracles of the Lord.

The Holy Spirit, during my communion time with Him, spoke clearly about the necessity of us developing a determination of heart and soul that says, “I will be a carrier of the notable miracles of the Lord for people to see, so that they may turn to God.” It is one thing to believe that the Lord is capable of doing something, but it is a completely different thing to become a vessel through whom who the Lord manifests His power.

The Holy Spirit wants us to move beyond merely believing in the Lord’s power scripture shows us, to living in such a way that His power and character are demonstrated through our lives. We should be able to hear what the Lord wants done, act upon it, and then prove what the Lord has spoken through tangible results that people can see. Jesus always demonstrated the Father’s reality through irrefutable action.

In Luke 8:52-56, when everyone was weeping and mourning because a young girl had died. Jesus, declared emphatically these words, “Do not weep; for she is not dead, but sleeping.” As per normal when a spiritual man speaks those present ridiculed Him because they knew from a natural standpoint that she was dead. Jesus went on to remove them from the room, took the girl by the hand, called her to arise, and immediately her spirit returned and she got up.

Jesus then instructed that she be given something to eat. Her parents were astonished, and Jesus instructed them to tell no one what had happened. This event reveals the difference between man’s interpretation of a situation and the Lord’s reality which is spoken in Romans.4:17 which speaks of the fact that in the Lord’s Presence, He gives life to the dead and calls things which do not exist as though they did. So the people looked at death and saw an irreversible ending but Jesus looked at the same situation and declared the Lord’s perspective that she was only sleeping.

Their response was a ridicule because what Jesus said appeared absurd according to natural circumstances. Yet Jesus did not bother to argue with them but He acted and proved His declaration by raising the girl from the dead. The proof by raising her from death was so undeniable that no explanation was necessary because the funeral they expected as the next thing to happen never took place and no grave was dug.

The girl was alive, well and eating again. Jesus could even say to the parents, “Tell no one,” because the manifestation itself was sufficient evidence. Everyone could see the result and draw the obvious conclusion that Jesus some how knew what He was saying, and He proved it by action rather than words alone. The Holy Spirit wants us to emulate that pattern of living by walking in that same reality which means we do not merely talk about what the Lord can do but become vessels through whom the Lord’s reality can be visibly demonstrated.

We must also walk as Jesus did by always demonstrating His authority over satan. We see another example of Jesus demonstrating His authority over the devil in Luke 13:10-13. When Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the Sabbath He saw a woman who had been afflicted by a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years. She was bent over and unable to straighten herself, so Jesus called her forward and declared these words to her: “Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.”

Then He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified the Lord. Jesus again demonstrated openly that satan’s power could not withstand the authority of the Lord. The woman had been bound for eighteen years, yet Jesus brought freedom to her in the presence of those who doubted and opposed Him. The miracle itself became the evidence of the Lord Jesus’s authority.

The synagogue ruler was indignant because Jesus had healed her on the Sabbath day. In Luke 13:14-17, he told the crowd that there were six days on which people ought to work and that they should come to be healed on those days rather than on the Sabbath. Jesus simply exposed the hypocrisy of this reasoning by pointing out that they would untie their ox or donkey on the Sabbath and lead it to water.

If they would care enough about an animal to give it what it needed, how much more should this woman who was a daughter of Abraham who had been bound by Satan for eighteen years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath? Jesus brought the truth into the open that they were willing to care for their animals but objected when a woman who had been suffering for eighteen years received her freedom.

The result of this miracle was powerful because: “All His adversaries were put to shame; and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by Him.” Jesus again on this occasion used an infallible proof, through the miracle itself to silence the voice of His enemies. This evidence was undeniable and this is the place the Holy Spirit wants us to occupy: which is a place where the Lord’s heart concerning a situation is demonstrated so clearly through our actions that opposition cannot successfully deny what the Lord has done.

In the name of Jesus, I declare that the Holy Spirit is stirring within you a holy determination to become a carrier of the notable miracles of Jesus. Your faith will no longer remain merely a conviction about what the Lord can do but it will become a living demonstration of who the Lord is through your life.

I declare that you will hear what the Lord is saying to you and move promptly to prove what He has spoken. You will not be intimidated by circumstances, opposition, unbelief, ridicule, or the limitations of natural reasoning. The reality of the Lord’s hand working through you will become greater to you than the appearance of any situation.

Like Jesus, you will speak the Lord’s perspective into situations that appear hopeless, and the power of the Holy Spirit will confirm His word through your obedience. Like the woman in Luke 13, people who have been bound for years will encounter freedom through the power of Jesus working through you as a yielded vessel.

I pray that the Lord will make His works through you notable because they will be evident to those around you, and there will be manifestations that cannot be denied. I declare that even those who oppose you will not be able to disprove what the Lord has done through you. The miracles will not point people to your own power, godliness, reputation, or ability but they will point unmistakably to the name of Jesus. Amen.

This is the conclusion to my communion time on understanding the power of the grace of the Lord to enable you accomplish His will for your life.

The Apostle Paul is another major demonstration of the power in the grace of God where through grace a former enemy of the kingdom is transformed into becoming a vessel of honour for the Master’s use. Paul repeatedly acknowledged that his effectiveness in his ministry came from the grace of God working in him. His past had included blasphemy and opposition to Jesus, yet the grace of the Lord transformed him into a vessel of honour and empowered him to minister effectively among the Gentiles.

In Galatians 2:7-9, Paul explains that the gospel to the uncircumcised had been entrusted to him just as the gospel to the circumcised had been entrusted to Peter. The same God who worked effectively through Peter toward the Jews worked effectively through Paul toward the Gentiles. James, Cephas (Peter), and John, recognising the grace given to Paul which was evident in action, extended the right hand of fellowship to Paul and Barnabas and acknowledged their assignment to the Gentiles authorised by the Lord Jesus.

We see clearly that, the grace operating in Peter was not inferior to the grace operating in Paul because the same divine ability was working through different vessels for different assignments to different peoples. The grace of God enabled Paul to become what his former life would have made impossible and to accomplish a ministry far beyond what his natural qualifications could explain.

Therefore we must recognise that grace is not given so that a person can boast about their personal greatness, talent, intelligence, spirituality, or accomplishment. The Holy Spirit wants us as the followers of Jesus to value the grace bestowed upon us, by repenting of disrespecting or misusing it, and recognising the potency of what has actually been entrusted to us to steward. We must acknowledge the fact that grace demonstrates how mighty the Lord is when He chooses to work through people whom the world would disregard as useless.

The Lord chooses to use what man considers insignificant to accomplish what man considers impossible, so that no flesh can glory in His presence. Therefore, when the Lord accomplishes something remarkable through you, the proper response is not self-exaltation but worship, adoration and gratitude that: “This is the grace of God working through me.” This extraordinary result points back to the extraordinary Lord who supplied the ability for me to accomplish this marvel.

Never take the grace of God for granted. The central warning is that we as followers of Jesus must not allow our familiarity with the word “grace” to make us careless about the reality of the grace working through us. Grace is not just a theological concept to admire from a distance. It is supernatural ability made available to us for the assignment the Lord has given us.

So remember that if the Lord has called you to build something extraordinary for the Kingdom, it is His grace which enables you to build. If the Lord has called you to minister extensively to various Nations, grace is what enables you to minister. If the Lord has called you to overcome immovable obstacles, it is His grace that supplies you the ability to overcome them. If the work of building has stalled, grace alone can empower you to rise up again to build.

The Holy Spirit is calling you to lay hold of the abundant grace being apportioned to you rather than remaining passive, discouraged, or dependent upon your natural strength to bring you triumph. The picture of Zerubbabel’s life is particularly significant: because when the work had ceased, grace was still available to bring it to completion once it was acknowledged and received. It is time to rise again and complete the work the Lord has given to you.

The final exhortation is therefore a call to action. So whatever the Lord has assigned to your life, do not conclude that its difficulty means it cannot be accomplished. Never measure the possibility of its fulfilment by your natural strength because just as the grace of God enabled Noah to build the ark, empowered Gideon to become a deliverer, Zerubbabel to complete the temple, and Paul to fulfil his apostolic assignment, that same principle of divine empowerment remains available to the you today.

The Holy Spirit wants you to allow His grace to engulf and propel you into action, by bringing into reality everything the Lord has declared concerning your life. Remember that you are not being asked to accomplish the Lord’s purposes by yourself. You are being called to yield to the supernatural ability of God already being supplied by His grace to you. The key message is that grace is not merely the Lord’s undeserved favour towards us, but grace is the Lord’s supernatural ability working through us to accomplish what only the Lord can do.

Therefore never take the grace of God casually, never despise what grace the Lord has given you by relying exclusively on your natural ability. Do not allow stalled natural circumstances to convince you that the Lord’s assignment for your life is finished. Never boast in yourself of what the grace of God accomplishes through you, but instead, recognise, receive, and cooperate with the grace of God apportioned to you.

Rise up again where the work has stopped by allowing the grace of the Lord to empower you to complete what the Lord has assigned for you to accomplish. Let every extraordinary result through the Lord’s grace become a testimony of the mighty God working through a yielded vessel obeying His commands.

I declare in the name of Jesus that the grace of God upon your life is becoming real, active, powerful, and unmistakable to you. You will no longer treat the Lord’s grace as an ordinary or familiar concept, but you will recognise it as the supernatural ability of God working in and through you. So that where you have been weak, grace strengthens you. Where you have been unable to cope, grace supplies you with ability ability.

I declare that where your assignment has stalled, abundant grace will cause you to arise again and shine. Where obstacles have stood before you, the grace of the Lord will give you supernatural capacity to overcome them. So that where you have wondered how the work will ever be completed, the Spirit of the Lord will make a supernatural way through for you. Just like Noah, you will receive grace to build what the Lord has commanded you to build.

I declare that just like it was with Gideon, you will rise above fear and become the deliverer the Lord has called you to be and like Zerubbabel, you will hear the word of the Lord saying to you : “Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,” and you will cry, “Grace, grace unto it!” Every work that the Lord ordained for your hands to accomplish will receive fresh supernatural ability. So that every place where progress has ceased, it will experience a divine restart in your life in Jesus name. Amen.

I declare that every obstacle that has mocked your natural ability will bow to the power of God’s grace operating through your life. You will complete what the Lord has commanded you to complete and like Paul, you will discover that the grace of God is sufficient to make you effective in the assignment He entrusted to you.

Every work that the Lord ordained for your hands to do will receive fresh supernatural ability and every place where progress has ceased will experience a divine restart. Every obstacle that has mocked your natural ability will bow to the power of God’s grace.

I declare that you will complete what the Lord has commanded you to complete and you will not glory in yourself, but only in what the Lord accomplished through you. Men will see what the Lord has accomplished through you and marvel at His greatness. As the grace of God will make your life a demonstration of His power, His wisdom, His faithfulness, and His glory.

It is time to rise up again and take hold of the grace being supplied to you now. So let the supernatural ability of the Lord engulf you, propel you, strengthen you, and bring you into the reality of everything the Lord has spoken concerning your life. So that what the Lord has ordained for you shall be accomplished, not by might, nor by power, but by His Spirit in Jesus’ name. Amen.

This morning I am sharing a portion of my communion time with the Holy Spirit on the subject of grace.

The Holy Spirit, during my communion time with Him , brought my attention to a familiar truth that we as followers of Jesus often take for granted: the grace of God. Because the word “grace” is used so casually and repeatedly, its significance, relevance, and necessity can gradually diminish in our understanding. When this happens, we can be robbed of the potency of grace and its ability to make us conquer, overcome obstacles, and accomplish the purposes of the Lord in our lives.

The Holy Spirit therefore wants us as followers of Jesus to recover a proper understanding, appreciation, and active dependence upon the grace of God which is our access to life from the Lord. Firstly we must remember that grace is essential for our salvation. Ephesians.2:5. The first and foundational truth in our Christian walk is that without grace, salvation is impossible. Grace is the divine agency through which a person can turn from darkness to light in an instant.

It is entirely a gift from God and is not the result of human works, accomplishments, or merit, leaving no room for boasting. Ephesians 2:8 establishes this foundation: that salvation is by grace through faith and it is the gift of God. The Holy Spirit gave me a working definition of grace which is that: Grace is the supernatural ability of God given to a human being to be and do what only God can do, and to bring that process to completion on the earth.

Grace, therefore, is not merely the Lord’s kindness toward us. It is also the Lord’s supernatural ability working through a human vessel to accomplish what human ability alone could never accomplish. We see grace at work first in the life of Noah. Genesis 6:5-8 describes a world in which human wickedness had become exceedingly great and was overcoming human behaviour. The thoughts and intentions of man’s heart were continually evil. The Lord was grieved that He had made humanity and determined to destroy mankind, together with the animals and creatures of the earth.

Yet verse 8 declares these words: “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.” Noah’s situation illustrates clearly what grace can do in the midst of turmoil. While judgment was coming upon the earth, the Lord’s grace provided Noah with the supernatural ability to build an ark, something no ordinary human being could have conceived or accomplished by natural ability. Through this grace, Noah was able to obey the Lord’s instructions, construct the ark, preserve his family and the animals, and survive the forty-day continuous downpour.

The judgment that destroyed the rest of humanity did not destroy Noah because grace had enabled him to do what Lord required to keep him alive in the midst of the flood. When Noah emerged from the flood, he was able to begin life again, with everything necessary available for the continuation of humanity which had now been entrusted to him. This is why grace must never be treated casually because the grace that the Lord gives is His own ability operating through us, by enabling us to accomplish things that can preserve, deliver, rebuild, and transform the lives of ourselves and others.

The Bible is filled with examples of men and women who found grace in the Lord’s sight and consequently did things that nobody would have imagined they could accomplish. What of Gideon who provides us with another powerful illustration of the grace of God at work. He was initially a fearful and seemingly insignificant man, threshing wheat in a Wine Press. Yet when the angel of the Lord encountered him, and with a word from the Lord with grace transformed him from a fearful man into a deliverer of the nation of Israel.

Through the Lord’s supernatural ability, Gideon was empowered to obey the Lord’s instructions and defeat armies he had never fought before. The lesson is that grace does not merely meet us where we are but it also empowers us to become and accomplish what the Lord has appointed us to become and accomplish for Him on earth. So what looks impossible from the standpoint of natural human ability becomes possible when the supernatural ability of the Lord comes upon a person who yields to Him in surrender.

The Holy Spirit then pointed me to the life of Zerubbabel in Zechariah 4 which involved the work of rebuilding the temple which had encountered opposition and had ceased, yet the Lord declared these words: “Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says the Lord with the prophetic word concluding with the cry of: “Grace, grace unto it!” The completion of the temple would not happen because of human might, political power, or natural resources, but it would happen because the Spirit of God supplied the supernatural ability necessary to empower him to build.

Zerubbabel’s hands ultimately completed the temple as the Lord had declared, even though there were governmental laws and obstacles, including the reference to the Law of the Medes and Persians, which could not be altered. Those barriers could not prevent what the Lord’s grace empowered Zerubbabel to accomplish. This message is especially important for anyone whose God-given assignment has stalled: You must know that what has stopped does not necessarily have to remain stopped. Grace is able cause you to rise again and complete what the Lord ordained for your life.

I declare in the name of Jesus that the grace of God upon your life is becoming real, active, powerful, and unmistakable to you. You will no longer treat the Lord’s grace as an ordinary or familiar concept, but you will recognise it as the supernatural ability of God working in and through you. So that where you have been weak, grace strengthens you. Where you have been unable to cope, grace supplies you with ability ability.

I declare that where your assignment has stalled, abundant grace will cause you to arise again and shine. Where obstacles have stood before you, the grace of the Lord will give you supernatural capacity to overcome them. So that where you have wondered how the work will ever be completed, the Spirit of the Lord will make a supernatural way through for you. Just like Noah, you will receive grace to build what the Lord has commanded you to build.

I declare that just like it was with Gideon, you will rise above fear and become the deliverer the Lord has called you to be and like Zerubbabel, you will hear the word of the Lord saying to you : “Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,” and you will cry, “Grace, grace unto it!” Every work that the Lord ordained for your hands to accomplish will receive fresh supernatural ability. So that every place where progress has ceased, it will experience a divine restart in your life in Jesus name. Amen.

Today I share the conclusion to the revelation of us always triumphing in Christ in all aspects of our lives.

This concern is not merely about missing one moment in life because a missed opportunity can take a long time to recover from. It may require waiting until circumstances align again before the person can return to the place where the opportunity was available.

This truth reinforces Jesus’ instruction to His disciples in Luke 12:35-37 which reads these words: “Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning; 36 and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately. 37 Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching.

Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them.” The emphasis in this word from Jesus is on our readiness, alertness, and immediate obedience to what we have been taught. The servant does not know precisely when the Master will arrive or what will be required of us at any particular moment. Therefore, as servants we must remain prepared.

My heart expresses the importance of this lesson by saying that “I never want to be the reason for the Lord’s will not to be fulfilled in any situation because I did something wrong or was not prepared ahead of time to capitalise on the opportunity.” This fact produces within me a commitment to remain spiritually prepared so that whenever the Holy Spirit creates an opportunity, I am always ready to respond.

The opportunity the Holy Spirit creates must be met with our availability, so the central question for every follower of Jesus is therefore: I know the Lord will always lead us out in triumph in Christ, but will we make ourselves available for the fragrance of the knowledge of God to be manifested everywhere through our lives? The issue is not whether the Lord has the ability to triumph. He does.

The issue is whether we will cooperate with His purpose sufficiently for that triumph to become a testimony and manifestation through our lives. This requires a deliberate commitment to the Lord that our bodies, time, attention, strength, and resources will be available for His purposes. We must refuse to let unnecessary concerns, fear, weakness, inconvenience, or personal priorities prevent us from responding when the Holy Spirit opens a door.

The goal is not simply to have the Lord work for us, but to allow Him to work through us which requires a deliberate commitment to the Lord that our bodies, time, attention, strength, and resources will be made available for His purposes. We must therefore refuse to let unnecessary concerns, fear, weakness, inconvenience, or personal priorities prevent us from responding when the Holy Spirit opens a door.

Jesus and the woman at the well in Samaria is a perfect example which provides the model of this fact in John 4. In Samaria, Jesus encountered the woman at the well and even when He was tired and thirsty, He deliberately remained there waiting for her. Jesus could have moved on because of His physical condition however, He made Himself available for the divine appointment. His willingness to remain in that place allowed the fragrance of the knowledge of God’s Kingdom to be released into Samaria.

So the encounter with one woman ultimately became a doorway through which an entire community was affected and transformed. Jesus demonstrated what it means to recognise and embrace a God-created opportunity even when it requires personal sacrifice. The lesson is therefore not merely to recognise divine opportunities but it is for us to remain available long enough for the purpose of the opportunity the Lord created to be fulfilled. The Holy Spirit’s message is ultimately a call to constant spiritual readiness.

Remember that the Lord is continually working for us, by opening doors, arranging divine appointments, and preparing people to encounter Him. He desires to release the fragrance of Christ through His people wherever they go. Therefore, we as His followers must cultivate a lifestyle of fellowship with the Holy Spirit so we can recognise these divine opportunities and receive the grace to respond appropriately to them.

Our weakness and failure does not have to become the end of the story. So even when a person has missed an opportunity or failed to respond as they should have, fellowship with the Holy Spirit can reveal the truth that restores our perspective, removes shame, and teaches us how to move forward in triumph.

The goal for us is to become a vessel that is always ready, available, watchful, and obedient whenever the Holy Spirit provides an opening for us to manifest the fragrance of the knowledge of Christ everywhere. When we make ourselves available, the knowledge of Christ can be spread through our words, actions, presence, obedience, and willingness to serve. In this way, the Kingdom of Jesus is continually expanded and the glory of the Lord is manifested through our lives.

I declare that the grace of the Holy Spirit is released upon you to remain spiritually alert, prepared, willing, and available for every divine opportunity God creates for you. You will not miss the doors of opportunity that the Lord opens before you. You will not allow fear, weakness, worry, family concerns, inconvenience, disappointment, or personal circumstances to prevent you from fulfilling the assignment of the Holy Spirit.

I declare that your spiritual senses are becoming sharper and more resolute so you will be able to recognise divine appointments and know when the Master is calling you to act. Your waist will be girded and your lamp will remain burning, and you will be found watching and ready when the Lord comes and knocks. (Luke 12:35-37).

Where you have previously missed opportunities, the Holy Spirit will teach you, then restore you once again, and position you in readiness for the fulfilment of His purposes for your life. Shame and disgrace will never have the final word over your life because you will arise from weakness with renewed strength and walk forward in the triumph of Christ.

The Holy Spirit will make your body, your voice, your time, and your life available as instruments through which the fragrance of the knowledge of Christ is released everywhere you go (2 Corinthians 2:14). You will not merely experience the Lord’s triumph, but you will become a vessel through whom His triumph is manifested to others.

I declare that people will encounter Jesus because you are available to demonstrate His glory. Families, communities, and nations will be touched because you have refused to withdraw when the Lord opened the door.

May you have the grace to recognise every opportunity the Holy Spirit makes available yo you, with the courage to embrace it, and the strength to remain faithful until His purpose is fulfilled. The fragrance of Christ will spread through your life, and the Kingdom of Jesus will advance through your obedience, as the glory of the Lord will be revealed through you in every place He sends you in Jesus’ name. Amen.

The Holy Spirit wants to reveal to you a truth that can keep you moving forward even after weakness, failure, or even an inability to lay hold of a present opportunity which has caused you to pull back due to negative energy. Through fellowship time with the Holy Spirit, you can discover “nuggets” of truth that bring you out of extremely difficult life threatening situations and show you a way forward that is still triumphant in impact, by removing the shame and disgrace which has plagued your life.

The Holy Spirit drew my attention to 2 Corinthians 2:14 which reads these words: “But thanks be to God, who in the Messiah constantly leads us in a triumphal procession and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of what it means to know him!” This declaration is especially significant because it follows an occasion when the Apostle Paul appears to have failed to capitalise on an open door the Lord had provided for him in Troas.

Paul was always continually looking for opportunities and open doors in different regions where he could preach the Gospel for which Christ had chosen him. He had repeatedly endured difficult circumstances, opposition, dangerous terrain, and persecution simply with the aim of reaching places where the Gospel could be proclaimed.

So even when he eventually had to leave those places, he was normally willing to fight through tremendous obstacles to take advantage of any opportunity that showed up. Therefore, it seemed strange that in Troas, when the door was open by the Lord and there were no adversaries preventing him, Paul did not remain and minister the gospel. Instead, he left and went away to go and find Titus. This fact raised an important question as to why did Paul not take advantage of this God given opportunity?

The situation appeared to be everything Paul would normally desire an open door, no opposition, and people already prepared to hear the Gospel. Why would he leave that stage when everything seemed ready? I wondered why Paul did not first seek the Holy Spirit’s confirmation concerning Titus, or at least remain long enough to speak words of encouragement and edification to those who were ready to receive his message.

Paul had taught others the importance of walking by faith and not by sight, yet on this occasion he seemed unable to take hold of an opportunity that appeared perfectly suited to his calling, which led me to ask an even deeper question concerning 2 Corinthians 2:14. How could Paul say that the Lord always leads us in triumph and spreads through us the fragrance of the knowledge of Christ when this episode appeared to contain a failure on Paul’s part?

The Precious Holy Spirit answered me with a revealing question as to whether Paul was led out in triumph on this occasion? The answer was yes. So the Holy Spirit did not fail to lead Paul out in triumph. The revelation was clear that the Holy Spirit never fails to lead us out in triumph in any situation because the Lord’s triumph is never dependent upon the perfection of our performance. However, our response and availability to follow through the door of triumph determines whether the fragrance of the knowledge of God is actually manifested through us in that situation.

So Paul was led out in triumph, but he did not spread the fragrance of Christ in Troas because he did not remain there to minister the gospel which would have manifested the fragrance of the knowledge of Christ for them to behold. This distinction the Holy Spirit pointed out is crucial because the Lord’s ability to lead us into triumph never fails, but our failure to make ourselves available can prevent the manifestation of what the Lord intended to release through us in a particular moment of time.

The Holy Spirit emphasised that He needed Paul’s physical body to be present so that Paul could speak and minister the gospel of the Kingdom to the people. The Lord had prepared the opportunity, but Paul still had to make his body available for the divine purpose to be expressed through him. The fragrance of Christ does not simply manifest automatically because an opportunity exists because the human vessel must be present, willing, prepared, and obedient for the Lord to be made manifest.

This revelation became a pivotal lesson to me personally concerning the danger of allowing our personal weakness, family circumstances, worry, concern, or other distractions to interfere when the Lord creates an opportunity to release His glory through our lives. Through this revelation I recognised the importance of always being ready to share what the Lord has entrusted to me rather than allowing weakness or personal circumstances to stop the process of revealing the fragrance of Christ.

I declare that the grace of the Holy Spirit is released upon you to remain spiritually alert, prepared, willing, and available for every divine opportunity God creates for you. You will not miss the doors of opportunity that the Lord opens before you. You will not allow fear, weakness, worry, family concerns, inconvenience, disappointment, or personal circumstances to prevent you from fulfilling the assignment of the Holy Spirit.

I declare that your spiritual senses are becoming sharper and more resolute so you will be able to recognise divine appointments and know when the Master is calling you to act. Your waist will be girded and your lamp will remain burning, and you will be found watching and ready when the Lord comes and knocks. (Luke 12:35-37). Where you have previously missed opportunities, the Holy Spirit will teach you, then restore you once again, and position you again for the fulfilment of His purposes for your life.

I declare that shame and disgrace will never have the final word over your life because you will arise from weakness with renewed strength and walk forward in the triumph of Christ. The Holy Spirit will make your body, your voice, your time, and your life available as instruments through which the fragrance of the knowledge of Christ is released everywhere you go (2 Corinthians 2:14). You will not merely experience the Lord’s triumph, but you will become a vessel through whom His triumph is manifested to others in Jesus name. Amen.

Today I share the conclusion of my Communion time with the Holy Spirit on understanding the operation of the Kingdom in our lives.

We must understand that, the promises and revelations of Scripture must be understood in their proper spiritual context, and as the followers of Jesus we must allow the Holy Spirit to bring them into the place where we can genuinely partake of what the Lord has made available to us. Returning to Mark 4:9, the Holy Spirit emphasised the big difference between us possessing an ear to hear and us actually applying that inner ear to hear. To say , “I have an ear to hear,” is one thing, but to actually hear the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking to our hearts is another.

True spiritual hearing involves us receiving knowledge from the Holy Spirit, then owning it, understanding it, and being able to apply it to real situations in life. The proof that we have truly heard from the Lord is that the truth becomes operational in our lives. As hearers of the word we have the responsibility to hear the truth in our hearts. Then we must make sure the truth we receive is clearly understood by us receiving and owning what we have heard, to ensure we apply that truth correctly by allowing it to produce its intended result in our lives.

Jesus reinforces this principle in Mark 4:24 when He speaks these words: “Take heed what you hear…”This reveals the fact that what we hear matters, and how we hear also matters because the manner in which we receive and process truth will influence our ultimate result.

The operation of the Kingdom involves spiritual processes during the different seasons we have to pass through. Therefore, as followers of Jesus we must allow the Holy Spirit to develop the constant character traits and mental dispositions necessary to survive and triumph through each stage we pass through till our triumph is achieved.

Trust, patience, endurance, obedience, repentance, humility, and perseverance are not incidental qualities which we must develop. They all form part of the spiritual equipment necessary for us to reach our God-intended goal and lay hold of the inheritance assigned to our individual lives. This is why Galatians 6:9 says these words: “Don’t grow weary in well doing, for in due season you will reap if you do not faint.” The warning here is very clear that if we faint, we lose out and if we grow weary in doing good, we can impede the harvest that the Lord intends to bring forth on our behalf.

There is therefore an important role for us as followers of Jesus in working through the operation of the Kingdom in our lives we must make. We must take our responsibility seriously and work out our salvation with fear and trembling. The lessons which the Holy Spirit teaches us are not merely interesting spiritual information we use to boast to others about how spiritual we are. They encompass the necessary preparation for the transitions we must make as we move into the blessings and purposes the Lord has prepared for us.

So the more we yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit, the greater and ultimately easier our path becomes to navigate because the Holy Spirit teaches us how to respond correctly in each season we pass through. We must remember how the Holy Spirit is continually available to bring back to our remembrance the things the Lord has taught us over the years.

Therefore, we should maintain a tender, repentant heart. So that when we miss it, we do not become stubborn, defensive, or remain separated from the Lord based on our pride. We should quickly recognise our error, repent, turn back, and allow the Holy Spirit to realign us with the Lord’s present agenda for our lives.

This message connects this reality with Jesus’ words in Mark 4:12, where turning back and receiving forgiveness are associated with us being restored rather than remaining outside. Repentance therefore becomes our pathway back into the Lord’s purposes because when we turn, we can experience deliverance through the forgiveness of sins and regain our alignment with the Kingdom plan Jesus has for our lives.

A repeated observation I have made from Scripture is that when people could not find a place for repentance from their mistakes, their life was lost. This makes the warning against the hardness of heart and stubbornness especially serious. Hard-heartedness will rob us of the Lord’s best because it prevents us from receiving correction and making the adjustments necessary for our forward movement.

As followers of Jesus we must therefore guard our hearts against becoming rigid when the Holy Spirit corrects us because correction is not a rejection of us but it is an invitation back for us into alignment with the Lord’s program. The Kingdom life requires constant cooperation with the Holy Spirit which is the overall message is that the Lord’s promises us not to bypass the process He has established for bringing us into manifestation of the promise of the Lord.

We must trust the Lord fully when we cannot yet see the desired outcome, but we must wait patiently while maintaining a disposition of gratitude through the different seasons of the process. Be open to hear the Holy Spirit in this time rather than merely listen to negative words by asking the relevant questions and seeking greater understanding. Take responsibility for applying what the Lord teaches you by allowing the truth to become operational in your life rather than it remaining theoretical in your experience.

Develop the character traits necessary in your hearts for the season we are entering by refusing to grow weary or faint before the harvest arrives. Maintain a repentant heart so that your mistakes do not become permanent barriers against you by allowing the Holy Spirit to correct and realign us whenever necessary. Take the time to meditate on God’s Word, especially Mark 4, so that further revelation can emerge concerning the operation of the Kingdom in your life.

Remember that your cooperation with the Holy Spirit is vitally essential to remain successful operating in the Kingdom. The Lord has made the Kingdom available to us, but we must learn how the Kingdom operates and cooperate with its principles in our hearts. The goal is not simply for us to know Scripture but for us to understand the operation of the Kingdom well enough to live it out successfully.

Remember that what the Holy Spirit teaches us today may become the very key we need to navigate tomorrow’s season. This message closes with a prayer for anyone who has been trapped in a particular situation that has baffled them, especially a stubborn situation that has caused you to repeatedly return to negative patterns until you are almost ready to quit and throw in the towel.

The prayer for you is that the Holy Spirit will grant you a supernatural avenue of escape so that where there has seemed to be no way forward, the Lord would reveal a miraculous way forward that could only have come from Him. May there be such a miraculous intervention that startles you, breaks the cycle, and gives you an entirely new testimony of victory and triumph.

The purpose of this divine intervention is not merely to solve your immediate problem but to build in you a renewed confidence in the mighty ability of our heavenly Father to act on your behalf. The invitation from the Holy Spirit is therefore to stop, then meditate deeply on Mark 4, and allow the Holy Spirit to reveal to you any additional truths concerning the operation of the Kingdom in your life.

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

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

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

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

I receive the grace to maintain a tender and repentant heart so that when I miss it, I will not harden my heart, make excuses, or run from correction. I will quickly turn back to the Lord, to receive His forgiveness, by accepting His correction, and allowing Him to realign me with His purposes. I declare that every negative cycle that has kept me trapped is broken off me and every pattern that has brought me repeatedly to the point of discouragement and almost caused me to quit is being interrupted by the mighty hand of the Lord.

I declare that the Holy Spirit is showing me the way of escape, the pathway forward, and the adjustment necessary for my breakthrough. I declare that what has baffled me will become a testimony in my life. What has caused me to become weary will become an opportunity for me to see the faithfulness of the Lord. The supernatural intervention of my Father is coming into my situation, and I will behold a new story of victory, triumph, and manifestation.

I declare that I will not merely know about the Kingdom but that I will understand clearly how it operates and walk in its reality. I will inherit the promises after I have done the will of the Lord. I declare that my confidence in the mighty ability of my Father is increasing, and my life will testify that those who trust, hear, obey, endure, repent, and continue with the Lord will see His purposes fulfilled in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Today I share the conclusion of my communion time with the Holy Spirit on choosing to be Cheerful in every situation.

We possess endless eternal life working on our behalf from our hearts, and therefore our ultimate outcome is never determined by temporary events. The Lord is committed to bringing His people through triumphantly and victoriously no matter the challenge or obstacle. The circumstances may be real, but they are not sovereign and the storm may be fierce, but it does not have the final word. The threat may look overwhelming, but it cannot cancel the Lord’s purpose.

The Holy Spirit’s instruction is therefore direct that we should submit ourselves to the truth and lay down the lie. The lie which always insists that circumstances must determine how we feel, think, speak, and respond. However the truth says that we have a choice on how things turn out. So we can choose to be cheerful. We can choose to remain hopeful and can choose to allow the joy of the Lord to rise afresh within us.

So we can come out of every threatening situation with “joy unspeakable and full of glory.” Instead of allowing sorrow and sighing to dominate us, we must allow the joy of the Lord to spring up again in its place. The invitation from the Holy Spirit is for us to experience the awesome power of the Most High working on our behalf. The command for us is to: “Rejoice in the Lord and again I say rejoice in the Lord.”

This is the emphasis of Philippians 4:4. which alludes to the fact that rejoicing is not merely a response reserved for favourable circumstances, but it is a deliberate spiritual choice rooted in the Lord Himself being for us. Therefore, become consumed with His cheerfulness, by saying goodbye to sorrow and sighing, and watch what the Holy Spirit will accomplish on your behalf for the honour and glory of Jesus.

The Choice moving forward is ours because the final reminder is simple yet profound: which is that we have the choice concerning how we respond with cheerfulness or sorrow. Paul chose cheerfulness in the middle of a fourteen-day storm when others had concluded that death was inevitable. He chose hope when circumstances offered no visible reason for hope. He chose faith because his confidence was in Christ rather than in the condition of the ship. And just as Paul experienced the Lord’s faithfulness and came through the ordeal safely, you too are called to make the same wise choice.

Never let circumstances ever become the determinant factor of your conduct and never allow temporary trouble to dictate your permanent disposition. Do not allow what is happening around you to make you forget Who is working within you and Who holds your life. On purpose choose cheerfulness, choose joy, choose faith and choose to rejoice in the Lord. As you make that choice, expect the Holy Spirit to work powerfully on your behalf and bring you through every threatening circumstance into triumph and victory, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

I declare in the name of Jesus that circumstances will never again govern your response in any situation. You will never again be controlled by what you see, hear, feel, or experience around you becauseyour heart is anchored in Christ, because your life is hidden with Christ in God, and your confidence rests upon the eternal Word of the Lord.

I declare that every spirit of sorrow, heaviness, anxiety, fear, discouragement, and sighing loses its influence over you as the joy of the Lord arises afresh within you. You receive abundant grace to remain cheerful, hopeful, peaceful, and full of faith even when circumstances appear threatening.

Like Paul in the midst of the storm, you will remain steady when others are losing hope becauseyou will hear the word of the Lord above the noise of the storm, and what the Lord has spoken concerning you will come to pass. So no temporary circumstance will overturn theLord’s eternal purpose for your life in Jesus name. Amen.

I declare that nothing will be able to separate you from the love of God. No tribulation, distress, persecution, peril, or adversity will ever have the final word over your life. You are more than a conqueror through Him who loves you andthe Lord will bring you safely through every storm, and you will emerge with a testimony of triumph, victory, and divine faithfulness.

Therefore, I decree that you arise and rejoice, by letting your heart become cheerful again. Let joy unspeakable and full of glory spring up within you. Let all sorrow and sighing depart andlet the power of the Most High become evident in your circumstances. So you will see the hand of the Holy Spirit working for you, and your response of faith will become part of your testimony of victory.

You will once again rejoice in the Lord and again I say rejoice in the Lord. You will walk by faith and not by sight, and you will come out of every storm with far greater confidence in your Father’s power and ability to deliver you. Your life will bring honour and glory to the name of Jesus as a witness of His resurrection powerin Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.