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This morning in my communion time the Holy Spirit directed me to declare Psalms 144-150 in worship to the Lord. I have come to realize as a pattern that this happens with me on occasions when I have time with the Holy Spirit. I have found from experience that after the declaration of the Psalms, I always experience a new sphere of glory from the Lord resulting in a new and greater impact in my life of the Presence of the Holy Spirit. The word does say that God inhabits the praises of His people. Psalm.22.3.

I recall the time when I was shepherding a group of professionals on a weekly programme and the Holy Spirit directed me to instruct them to declare the psalms daily for a month. It was such a rewarding experience hallmarked by numerous wonderful testimonies that happened in each of their lives after obeying those instructions.

There were several financial breakthroughs and work promotions. Two of the students got great promotion in work and a 43% increase in salary as a result of that daily confession of the Psalms.

This morning was no different for me 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.11 They will tell the world of the lavish splendor of your kingdom and preach about your limitless power.12 They 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.

Please remember that with the Lord there is always a cause and purpose for everything and the Holy Spirit is always the Person who announces the purpose of God 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. Hebrews.13:15.

Next we as God’s people and followers and lovers of Jesus should always be found in a position of bowing in surrender to our Master 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. Revelation.4:8-11.

They cast their crowns before Him in submission and total adulation of His superior position. They certainly do not flaunt themselves in pride before the Lord. A 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 nature and the Character 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 of Jesus to the world by demonstration through preaching about the limitless power of the Lord. Mark.16:17-20.

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

Certainly not our failures in the process of serving Him. The failure of man is constantly evident in everyday life and what we need to witness is the faithful love and loyalty of an Omnipotent, All powerful God who can accomplish marvels on our behalf.

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.

The Holy Spirit has been speaking that 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. The reign of His Kingdom on earth will be visible 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. James.4:6.

As I declared these psalms before the Lord you can now see why I say my sphere of glory arose and became more expansive 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 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 we are in.Then take swift action through the grace supplied through these words to reposition ourselves back in full alignment to bowing in humility by seeking the Lord with your whole hearts in readiness to partake of this move of the Holy Spirit.

Take this opportunity to repent of every way in which you are coming short spiritually. Do not fear to confess your weakness to the Lord because He already knows it. It is us that need to acknowledge our shortcomings so the Holy Spirit can free us.

This allows for grace to empower us to be fit and able because it is the power of the Lord at work in us both to will and to do for His good pleasure. May you seek the Lord with all your being 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. This will provide an opportunity for men to turn to Him in Jesus name. The result will be an expanding His kingdom on earth of which there is no end in Jesus’ name. Amen.

I have found that the Holy Spirit loves to correct us through edifying words rather than words of condemnation. I noticed that Jesus always used parables to correct people’s mindsets and thought patterns so that through those words people could identify their errors and make the necessary adjustments.

Thus find a way for repentance to come back to their relationship with the Lord. The Lord is always more interested in us moving forward than us dwelling on the past particularly when the lessons have been learnt through the words of correction we submit to.

The Holy Spirit always wants us to know our heart and the things that make us do what we do. In other words He wants us to know what motivates us and why we yield to what we yield to because when we own our mistakes and make the right corrections on them, we are truly free because we know the truth and since it is the truth we know that makes us free we will be free indeed. Owning the truth.

So I will share with you today a situation in the bible where a refusal to deal with the truth cost a God servant to lose out on God’s best because he refused to own the truth and make the necessary adjustments that could have changed the course of his and his family’s life.

The Holy Spirit wants me to bring to the table the life of King Jehoshaphat. In 2 chronicles.19:1-3 we read of a warning given to him by a seer after he goes on a battle with king Ahab who the Lord describes as a wicked hater of God whom you helped and for that reason the wrath of God is against you.

In other words God points out that you have done wrong and wrath is set against you because you came into agreement with a wicked evil doer, hater of God so repent and turn which he doesn’t do because kind words for the other good works he has done cause him to not feel the need to make the adjustment because his good was acknowledged.

Remember: Never fall into that trap regardless of what good you have done. God tests the intent and purpose of your hearts and that will determine your end results on that. He chooses to go on to ignore the warning and that wrath begins stirring up in his house.

In 2 chronicles.20:35-37 Again He allies with those God describes as haters of God Ahab’s son now and God destroys his works using a prophet to speak to him about this trend of working and allying with enemies from God’s perspective.

In 2 chronicles.21:4 we see that the wrath of God manifested when his son as King, having replaced him, killed his brothers after how honorably Jehoshaphat had shared their inheritance before he died in 2 chronicles.21:3. It will benefit you to read all the accounts in these chapters of 2 Chronicles.20&21 and 1 Kings.15-22 to have the fuller complete picture of this reality.

What the Holy Spirit wants made clear is that our thoughts on things and our relationships are not what determines our outcomes but what God says and our willingness to change our minds with His perspective that will determine our end result.

How does a man who walked in that level of righteousness have a family where brother kills brother and Ahab who did such wickedness have a family where brothers help one another and live on until the Lord steps in to destroy them?

This was because of intermingling with wickedness by refusing to repent when challenged to change when warned by a Prophet of disaster awaiting his life from the Lord.

Unfortunately the conclusion of a righteous man is his death and the spiral of death in his family when the rewards for his righteousness should have been his deliverance from death. This is exactly what Balaam suggested to Balak would bring down Israel if they intermingle they can and will be reduced to nothing. Numbers.25:1-4.

May you selah on this reality then make the decision to follow by obeying the dictates of the Holy Spirit regardless of what you see or perceive from natural events. Take heed to make decisive action to repent and turn from error when the Lord speaks this to you.Then quit the futile excuses that they are brethren whom you have to support.

I pray that today that from seeing the reality of truth from these words concerning intermingling you will find the grace from the Holy Spirit necessary to protect you and guide you to walk circumspectly so that you do not lose out on your reward because of ignorance in your helping of those you are not supposed to help.

Though they petition you profusely with praises and seem to need you desperately. You will still be siding with evil and thus compromise your own heritage by losing the ensuing rewards that are tied with it and end up on the losing side. May that never be your portion in Jesus’ name. Amen.

I conclude this word with the message from 2 John.8 which reads: Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward. Let that be your portion for serving the Living God in Jesus’ name. Amen.

I thank the Lord so much for the person of the Holy Spirit who is such a wonderful mentor and coach who always has our best interest at heart in all things. The Holy Spirit has the role of working with us until we achieve the goal of inheriting the promises of God in our lives as we walk in everything Jesus died for us to partake of.

It is such a beautiful thing to be partakers of the Divine nature of God by experiencing His Power working in and through us mere mortals to glorify His Precious Name. 2 Peter.1:3 & 4.

I am so happy that Jesus chose us to be His disciples. He has provided a curriculum for us which enables us to be victorious and triumphant in all things that pertain to our lives and Godliness. Take some time to just worship and thank the Lord for the wonderful and indescribable gift of the Holy Spirit that causes us to triumph and manifest the fragrance of the knowledge of God in every place. 2 Corinthians.2:14-16.

It is so beautiful to note that when the Apostle Paul wrote those words in 2 Corinthians.2:14 he had just missed out on an opportunity to minister the gospel unimpeded by attacks. However had no rest in his soul so was unable to capitalize on the open door opportunity and had to leave.

I recall asking the Lord at the time how can the apostle Paul say that the Lord always leads us out in triumph when he had just missed the opportunity and had no triumph in that venture through ministering to that company of believers.

The Holy Spirit reminded me that He led Paul into the place of triumph but it was Paul who did not walk in the position of triumph, so we cannot say that the Holy Spirit does not lead us into triumph because He always does but we must walk with Him to experience the triumph.

That truth has stuck with me all these years and is a constant reminder that God will not fail me and all I need to do is cooperate with Him by yielding and surrendering to His leading which results in triumph becoming my portion all the days of my life.

We are the workmanship of God created in Christ Jesus for a life of good works prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. This truth is so real that the Apostle Paul mentions in Ephesians.2:10 and we should seek to walk in that reality all the days of our lives as we repent and turn from sin and error whenever we stray from that truth quickly to be restored back to life by the Holy Spirit.

Being what God created us to be is the greatest thing that we can ever experience in life because we get to have His impartation of resurrection life working in us both to will and to do for His Own good pleasure.

When Jesus told the Apostles in John.14:12 that the works I do shall you do also, Paul in this verse in Ephesians shows us how this becomes reality through the working of the Holy Spirit in our daily lives to see those works of miracles, signs and wonders which God made ready and available for each of our lives to perform on His behalf.

Yes God wants to work miracles through you. What a privilege and honor to be counted in that class of glory because of a choice God made to include us as participants in the process of doing miracles.

We need not boast in our strength because it is nothing we do but what He did for us by imparting grace to us by which we perform on His behalf. Just take the time to offer praise and thanksgiving to God for this great privilege as the Apostle Paul mentions in Hebrews.13:15 offering continually the sacrifice of praise that is the fruit of our lips.

The Lord does not want our mouths to complain by moaning and speaking lies to Him and about Him. We must revere Him for all He has done to redeem and save us by giving us a grand present with a much greater future in all of His goodness made ready for us to share in.

So today rest fully in the reality of these words of Divine love already made available to you by allowing the Holy Spirit to reign over your life by bringing you to the expected place of glory in Jesus to which you have been called by God to inherit in Jesus name . Amen.

It is time the Holy Spirit is saying to compile and make a record of all the things He has taught you and brought you through for the benefit of others to make it available so that other lives can benefit from and use the lessons to enhance, change their lives and build a lasting relationship with Jesus. Luke.1:1-4.

This in turn will establish the kingdom Mandate and provide an avenue of support for those who are facing similar warfare and have no answers as to why things are panning out negative in their lives and just need the solutions and spiritual answers that remind them they are not alone in the things they are facing but can benefit from those who have already scaled those paths by coming out victorious with a proven and trustworthy spiritual Pathway that always works. 1Peter.5:9.

Be diligent to put together all the things the Holy Spirit has worked you through. Endeavour not feel vulnerable in expressing the challenges that happened including the mistakes you made which the Holy Spirit brought you out from because you repented and turned back to the Lord.

Do not fear to relate your weakness as in it the strength of the Lord was made manifest on your behalf. You will be amazed at the level of comfort it will bring to those struggling in their faith having made many similar errors.

They are discouraged and feel that it is the reason God will not bring them out and have allowed the condemnation of the enemy to paralyze their forward movement. By hampering the result they could now be walking in because of this deception of failing God and somehow that has now disqualified them from being usable by the Lord.

Remember that it was Peter’s failure in faith that Jesus used to bring him out by praying for him that gave him encouragement to build and raise Jesus a strong people of faith for His glory. Luke.22:31 & 32.

Remember that in Romans.8:28 it points out that all things will work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are the called according to His purpose. In other words God will use various bad situations in the lives of those who love Him by turning around the negative events in a miraculous way to bring glory out of what was intended to bring harm and shame.

Remember that when Joseph was been sold by his brothers to the Ishmaelites as a slave to enter Egypt no one could have imagined that he would become the Prime Minister and rule over the most devastating famine that had ever occurred and become the solution to a world crisis in his generation which saved so many lives from starvation and death because of his relationship with the Lord who intended this glory for him but needed him to be in Egypt which his brother’s wickedness was needed to achieve to position Joseph for that to happen. Genesis.37:28.

It is noteworthy that when Joseph arrived in Egypt God described him as a prosperous man because God was with him. He had no money at that time but had God. Take note of that reality in your life. Having God for you is greater than having just money. Genesis.39:2.

I recall the time when the Lord spoke to me in Abuja Nigeria that He the Lord does not judge the events of our lives but what the intent and purpose of our hearts are in those events. He pointed out to me that we cannot always determine the events that happen in life as was the case when Jesus was born. Caesar determined where Joseph and Mary needed to be because he wanted a census taken.

He required every person to be in their home town for this to happen regardless of whether they were pregnant or not. You had no choice but to obey the decree and make the journey. This is what happened which caused Jesus to be born in Bethlehem. Luke.2:1-7.

It really freed me because in that season the enemy was using the mistakes that happened by being in the wrong place to accuse me. Then assaulted me with accusations by using them to condemn me. The aim was to destroy my confidence in answered prayer by making me feel vulnerable because of the uncertainty of my physical position.

The Lord brought me a sweet victory with a deliverance that has continued to remain with me till this present day for my life. My union with the Holy Spirit has increased and I am enjoying a greater confidence in the Lord through answered prayers.

I pray for you today that as you take hold of these truths every grace necessary will make itself available to you as you lay hold of the Lord to soar above every condemning word the enemy has used to hinder, delay and stop your progress in manifesting the promises of God for your life. I rejoice at the freedom these words will make available to you just as it did for me in Jesus name. Amen.

The Holy Spirit today is releasing a new level of Peace to you that will override all the turmoil, discomfort, pain, sorrow and betrayal you have experienced over the years that keeps sipping through in your relationships. These negative vibes turn once sweet friendships into bitter arguments that breed strife, jealousy and ultimately a separation of friendship. This process causes another season of loneliness for us which our enemy desires because it gives him advantage over us.

The Lord wants you to know that in spite of all these negative situations you were created for relationships with people by bringing everything the Lord has worked for us to conduct good positive relationships with people. Do not shy from people and do not allow these conflicts to build a mindset of distrust concerning men which then makes it impossible to relate with them. The aim of this attack is to nullify your call and mission from the Lord to turn men to Him. It reduces you and makes you an object of shame and disgrace which satan wants your life to reflect. Remember that in John.2:24 & 25 it reads: But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men, 25 and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what was in man.

Although Jesus did not commit Himself to man He did everything for man his Father directed including dying on the cross to save the souls of men. In other words you are not to seek to please and give men what they desire and want from you but to provide for man what God has apportioned your life to bring them. We are to relate with them on that basis of the Holy Spirit leading not just in giving and doing what they want. This is because as Jesus pointed out to Nicodemus in John.3:19-21 truly men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. However the Father wants man to love and seek Him as they come to the knowledge of truth as they experience the light. Remember that only the truth makes men free, not meeting all their needs physically. John.8:31 & 32.

The Lord is giving you an increase of His peace which He left for you on earth and His Peace which He gives you from heaven through the Holy Spirit which transcends even that which He walked in on earth which can and will still any storm, situation or block that could possibly arise by causing you to soar above it without it impacting or affecting you in any negative way or depreciating your value. John.14:27.

It is the peace that passes all understanding that guards your hearts and minds in the knowledge of God. Be expectant of receiving this peace which means that the things that worried and concerned you will no longer be there. However you will soar over them and stand in wonder as to why they had so much sway over you before when you could have had this level of Peace that transcends this realm all along. Philippians.4:7.

Be thankful that you have entered into a new level of glory where you must be above the turbulence to impact lives regardless of the conditions as Jesus did with the lady at the well in Samaria in John.4 who was attempting to use religious arguments to stop Jesus from ministering to her the freedom of life from a new well of life flowing from Him to her. Her bias was not going to stop Jesus giving her what she really needed, the life spring of Jesus which would also transform her whole community and bring an explosion of joy in Samaria.

In like manner this new peace the Lord is releasing to you will empower you to go beyond the human conflict and bring the life spring of Jesus to people who need it over and above their human bias and attempt to railroad you through conflict that seeks to bring confusion and every evil work to play which your peace will override to bring the Kingdom into manifestation and an expansion of new lives in the kingdom to the glory of the name of Jesus. Acts.10:9-16.

Receive this grace today, as you ascend into this new place in the Holy Spirit where impossible things become possible through this reality working in your life going forward in Jesus name. Amen.

I thank the Lord so much for the person of the Holy Spirit who is such a wonderful mentor and coach who always has our best interest at heart in all things. The Holy Spirit has the role of working with us until we achieve the goal of inheriting the promises of God in our lives as we walk in everything Jesus died for us to partake of. It is such a beautiful thing to be partakers of the Divine nature of God by experiencing His Power working in and through us mere mortals to glorify His Precious Name. 2 Peter.1:3 & 4.

I am so happy that Jesus chose us to be His disciples. He has provided a curriculum for us which enables us to be victorious and triumphant in all things that pertain to our lives and Godliness. Take some time to just worship and thank the Lord for the wonderful and indescribable gift of the Holy Spirit that causes us to triumph and manifest the fragrance of the knowledge of God in every place. 2 Corinthians.2:14-16.

It is so beautiful to note that when the Apostle Paul wrote those words in 2 Corinthians.2:14 he had just missed out on an opportunity to minister the gospel unimpeded by attacks.However had no rest in his soul so was unable to capitalize on the open door  opportunity and had to leave.

I recall asking the Lord at the time how can the apostle Paul say that the Lord always leads us out in triumph when he had just missed the opportunity and had no triumph in that venture through ministering to that company of believers.  The Holy Spirit reminded me that He led Paul into the place of triumph but it was Paul who did not walk in the position of triumph, so we cannot say that the Holy Spirit does not lead us into triumph because He always does but we must walk with Him to experience the triumph.

That truth has stuck with me all these years and is a constant reminder that God will not fail me and all I need to do is cooperate with Him by yielding and surrendering to His leading which results in triumph becoming my portion all the days of my life.

We are the workmanship of God created in Christ Jesus for a life of good works prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. This truth is so real that the Apostle Paul mentions in Ephesians.2:10 and we should seek to walk in that reality all the days of our lives as we repent and turn from sin and error whenever we stray from that truth quickly to be restored back to life by the Holy Spirit. Being what God created us to be is the greatest thing that we can ever experience in life because we get to have His impartation of resurrection life working in us both to will and to do for His Own good pleasure.

When Jesus told the Apostles in John.14:12 that the works I do shall you do also, Paul in this verse in Ephesians shows us how this becomes reality through the working of the Holy Spirit in our daily lives to see those works of miracles, signs and wonders which God made ready and available for each of our lives to perform on His behalf. Yes God wants to work miracles through you. What a privilege and honor to be counted in that class of glory because of a choice God made to include us as participants in the process of doing miracles.

We need not boast in our strength because it is nothing we do but what He did for us by imparting grace to us by which we perform on His behalf. Just take the time to offer praise and thanksgiving to God for this great privilege as the Apostle Paul mentions in Hebrews.13:15 offering continually the sacrifice of praise that is the fruit of our lips. The Lord does not want our mouths to complain by moaning and speaking lies to Him and about Him. We must revere Him for all He has done to redeem and save us by giving us a grand present with a much greater future in all of His goodness made ready for us to share in.

So today rest fully in the reality of these words of Divine love already made available to you by  allowing the Holy Spirit to reign over your life by bringing you to the expected place of glory in Jesus to which you have been called by God to inherit in Jesus name . Amen.

Today I am sharing part of my communion time with the Holy Spirit on what are you considering concerning your life as to the path you will take to go forward in your life?

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 that day so I do not come up short of what He has prepared for me by believing much less than what the Lord intended. Ephesians.2:10. The lord wants us to have no more partial victories that have a bitter after taste, because they are short of triumphing in all things.

The Holy Spirit I have found over the years is never pleased when we come short of what has been promised to 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 we need to change in our belief systems as to what we think about God we need to make sure we implement so we are on track with the Lord’s leadings. This is to ensure that we stop coming short of the full reward God intended for us. So today 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 right through to complete victory and triumph in the matter.Colossians.2:5-11.

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, we need to go back and make sure of what we heard. Do we really  understand the true import of what is being said by the Lord and then position your heart to hear further. Ensuring we understand the details stipulated.

Then look out for what we may have missed out on in our excitement of receiving the word or just missed when it was spoken. Through this process of recapping the conversation we are able to correctly position ourselves to hear again clearly what the Lord is saying so we can fully obey.Mark.4:24.

You see if you are a follower of righteousness which is truly what a follower of Jesus is as Jesus is the King of righteousness and rules with the Sceptre of Righteousness. Jesus also  loves righteousness and hates lawlessness. Hebrews.1:9. So if you follow Jesus you must be a very keen listener to what Jesus 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.Psalm.89:14.

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 be willing to listen to what correction the Lord 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.” Those whom I love I correct, says the Lord.

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. Isaiah.51:1 & 2.

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.

The Holy Spirit this morning in my communion time with Him shared many things with me concerning repositioning my spiritual position for what is ahead and asked me to share some of these spiritual realities with you that we miss and thus are robbed at the crucial moments of time. When we should be engaging completely with the Holy Spirit, by distractions based on desires which we have that suddenly make themselves available for fulfilment and demand our immediate attention or else we miss out on the offer presented. John.6:15.

Well the Holy Spirit wants you to begin rejecting those attractive offers that come to take you away from focusing and pressing into the promise of God rather than the transitory satisfaction of the desire being fulfilled which pleases the soul but rejects the Master Jesus’ Plan for your life. This unfortunate detour forces us to begin a new process of re-running that test all over again. 

Only this time with more cunning dilemmas with more complicated detours because we are unaware of what happened the first time and believe now that by faith we will surely make it and come through even though we are in deception needing a way out quickly through wisdom back to the place of union with the Lord. The Lord pointed out this reality to  Jeremiah, when He said to Jeremiah return to Me so I can return to you. Unfortunately Jeremiah was unaware that the Lord was not where he thought but had left and Jeremiah needed to come back to the place of fellowship with the Lord.

The Holy Spirit wants you to understand why He worked through the Apostle Paul to make certain statements or more like commandments about disciples of Jesus being filled with the Spirit , walking in the Spirit and not letting the flesh have its expression in us. If you walk in the Holy Spirit you will not fulfil the lusts and desires of the flesh because the Holy Spirit does not have such desires He needs fulfilled. For that reason He will lead you in a completely different direction away from the flesh. 

This is why it is so necessary to be in close communion with the Holy Spirit to know when, where and how to navigate the right path the Lord has prepared for us rather than that which seems right to our emotions, feelings or desires which want fulfillment in the now, regardless of our uneasy feeling and, inward check that the Holy Spirit is warning about which we will override unless we are filled with the Holy Spirit and what He dictates.

Jesus pointed out in John.5:30 that I have no other desire than what my Father wants me to do and so I will decide rightly on what I hear because I only want to please Him and not myself.

This is the position the Holy Spirit wants us to adopt so we do not miss His timing in any situation because we are seeking the Fathers will and not ours.

With our surrender to the will of the father which empowers us with the grace it brings will break the war in our hearts which wants our desire to manifest to align our full agreement with the Holy Spirit’s will which enables us to do the Lord’s will joyfully. This will need to be done daily with the Holy Spirit for us to enjoy the continuous benefit. Galatians.5:16-18.

Setting aside time to be filled with the Holy Spirit is not a one time event which suddenly makes us great from which we can then continually flow from that greatness. It is a daily event which we should approach humbly as we see our weakness which we surrender to Him to allow the Lord to transform it with His strength which makes us triumphant in all things. This is what the Holy Spirit desires most for us to have to make of us vessels that carry the glory of Jesus. Acts.1:14. Acts.2:1-3.

May you find abundant grace today in these words which will transition you into this spiritual place in the Holy Spirit where the Lord’s will becomes your greatest desire and passion where all your energy goes to make yourself ready and available for Jesus’ will to be done in your life. Have a favorable day in Jesus’ name. Amen.

For many of you today the Holy Spirit is saying that the tide of your spiritual events are changing in your favor. In situations where you have accepted and concluded that it will go against you. Be watchful and sober to respond to the Holy Spirit because those negative circumstances will change concerning you as things work out for your good bringing you out triumphant smelling like a rose. Philippians.1:12-14.

You must remember that natural currents always change. However the Lord who created the currents can change currents at any time to fulfil His plan and intent for your life. The Lord who created the currents can command them to change for His pleasure and they will have to obey Him. Acts.27:21-26.

Always remember the Holy Spirit is not limited to what is happening around you and the limitations you are experiencing at this present moment. He is over them as in Genesis.1:1-5.

The Holy Spirit is far greater than any mountain or obstacle that sets itself up against you hence His words in Isaiah.54:17 to His Own that No weapon formed against you shall prosper and every tongue that rises against you in judgment you shall condemn, for this is the heritage of the servants of God and their righteousness is of Him.

The Holy Spirit is far greater than all the present things set against you and He has chosen to change the tide to favor your righteous cause. So you will have many more reasons to praise Him because things are turning around for you. Recognise that what seemed like being doomed against you will totter and fall as you will be raised from the ash heap as your situation is turned into beauty by what shall be wrought by the Holy Spirit as the last story line in this drama of your life.

So lift up your heads today and focus on the One who is able to keep you by worshipping and adoring Him for what shall surely be an outstanding testimony for you to share which outwits and puts your enemy to shame and disgrace because of what the Lord has done on your behalf.

This changing of the tide will also mark a new season of the hand of the Lord working on your behalf as you see more of God’s manifestations for you than you have had in years and it will be like a honeymoon season of the goodness of the Lord in your life.

Therefore take heart today by pressing into His kindness by worshiping Him in the beauty of His holiness. Choose to revere Him through your words of thanksgiving and adoration for what He has done on your behalf as you let Him have His way and His day for you from this word He has sent to you now in Jesus name. Amen.

I present to you today the conclusion of my communion time with the Holy Spirit which deals with girding up the loins of our hearts and minds with truth. Allow these words to minister to you then take the action to gird up your hearts and minds on the truth that is most relevant for your specific situation and watch how it will turnaround as the Holy Spirit is given room to work out the miraculous in your life in Jesus name.

I have learnt through experience that one cannot cast down what we tolerate or allow to flow and pass through our minds. We need to actively rebuke and reject its right to determine our mindset by disallowing it. Ephesians.4:27. Remember that the truth you know and apply alone will make you free and keep you free.John.8:31 & 32.

“Truth not applied is dormant and will not work for you.” Hence we are told to gird ourselves with it, in an active state of mind which Jesus, Paul and Peter each insisted we as disciples must do.

Let us look at what Peter pointed out on what to do when he said to gird ourselves in 1 Peter.:13 Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Again we see it requires action on our part to take control of our mind and Peter here speaks about the reproductive part of our minds being so encircled with truth by being sober, not in presumption, or arrogance, or foolish thinking but resting completely on the grace which the Holy Spirit will bring to us by revelation.

In other words our mouths must be actively declaring the truth then establishing it in our hearts so that we are constantly ready to take the action the Holy Spirit will require us to take when the hour of manifestation arrives.

In Peter’s life this action of girding up our minds with truth occurs in Acts.10:9 Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour. Peter has to take the initiative to go pray and engage with God. It is only after he starts praying that he has the trance which gives the Holy Spirit the opportunity to break through with the truth which enables Peter to take action which he would never have done because of the mindset that he had prior as a jew which now required a different action.

Peter now had to gird his mind with the new truth which he had heard Jesus speak about time and again but it had not quite registered with him. However on this occasion it would come through that day as the Holy Spirit ministered it to him and said now go with those men without doubting.

Watch how that singular event which Peter engaged in by girding his mind with truth became the catalyst that birthed these words in Acts.10:34-35: Then Peter opened his mouth and said: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. 35 But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him. This statement made salvation a reality for us today and available to every human being on earth who would choose to believe, work righteousness and follow Jesus.

Be encouraged by how that singular event changed Peter eternally as He engaged with the Holy Spirit’s voice by choosing to gird his mind with the truth the Holy Spirit gave him. For his obedience he got to see God in action in a new dimension in Acts.10:44-48 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word. 45 And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also. 46 For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God.

Then Peter answered, 47 “Can anyone forbid water, that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” 48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then they asked him to stay a few days. God knew what Cornelius had done for His name by living for Him and was going to reward him for that. No human bias of Peter was going to stop that happening.

My prayer and heartfelt desire for you today is that you take this opportunity to engage in spiritual action by girding the loins of your heart and minds completely on the truth the Holy Spirit reveals by allowing Him to bring forth every good thing He has assigned for you to do in the Spirit.Let your life be for the advancement of the Kingdom which will glorify His name.

May you always find grace to be in the bullseye of God’s will and purpose for your lives. Be always girded with truth to execute good works on Jesus’s behalf in the prescribed time for His glory in Jesus name. Amen.

Take some quality time today and meditate these words over and over again, look over the scriptures again and let them become a part of your life and you will see more expansion of the life of Jesus made available to you and much increase of productivity for the Kingdom in Jesus name. Amen.