THE COMFORTER - PART 1 THE STAFF

 

The first time we read about the Holy Spirit is in Genesis 1.

GENESIS 1

1.  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

² and the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

³ and God said, let there be light: and there was light.

Whenever we hear the word water in the Word of God, the general connotation is a multitude of people or a sea of people. For instance, in the book of Revelation we read the Beast will come out of the sea.  It is not that the Beast or the Anti-Christ will come out of the literal sea, but he will come out of man.  He will be a man. The other thing of note is that we ourselves are made of water.  We are 70% water and we cannot live without water.  The interesting part is that the earth was void and dark and the Holy Spirit was on the face of the water.  Face here stands for surface.  When meditating on this scripture, my thoughts went to conception. The moment conception takes place in a mother’s womb, at that moment of conception, studies have shown that there is a light.  So, when I read, “and God said, “Let there be light and there was light”, my thoughts go to conception.  In other words, LIGHT equals LIFE.  The Holy Spirit is the life within us, the life that upholds all things created by the Spirit of God.  The Father spoke the Word, and Yeshua is the Word, and the Holy Spirit brought the life.

When you think of Adam and Eve, who were told not to partake of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, they did not obey.  The Father told them that the moment they would partake of that tree that they would die and as we know they did not fall at that moment down to the ground and die, but it was a gradual death.  But we do know that a death did indeed take place in that moment, the glory of the Lord departed from them.  They went from eternal beings to beings that would die.  They no longer had that intimate, or inward connection of the Spirit of God dwelling in them, but they went from the spiritual to the natural and hid themselves.  Their eyes were open to see their true state.  Whilst they were sewing fig leaves, the Father was walking in the Garden calling out their names.  I believe that they could literally hear them speak to them, whereas, probably, before that the unity amongst them was as such that they did not have to literally hear Him speak.  So, they went from the spiritual to the natural.  They went from living by the spiritual to living by the natural, or the flesh.  

 

EPHESIANS 5: 14

¹⁴ Wherefore he saith, awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

They went into a spiritual slumber, almost like the earth that was void and in darkness and then the Spirit hovered over the surface of the water and touched their hearts.  Like when we were unsaved.  Our own lives were like this earth and when the Spirit comes and hovers overs us, and touches our innermost being, the deep calling unto deep, that is when the Father comes and He speaks LIGHT.  And the incorruptible seed of the Word of God is sown in to our hearts by the Spirit and there is that spark of LIGHT, which is a spark of LIFE.  Literally what happens in the Spirit.  What happens in the natural in a mother’s womb is showing us what is happening in the spiritual.  Genesis 1 testifies of this as well.

The Old Testament is the previous dispensation where the Holy Spirit was on the face of the waters, but the New Testament it is a new dispensation.  In John 4 Yeshua met the woman at the well.   Everyday at noon she had to take her waterpot to the well.  At certain times the women took their waterpots to the well, which was separate from the town and they would fetch their water for the day.  This lady went at noon, which meant it was hot.  Every day she would go to the well with her waterpot to get water.  There she met Yeshua and He told her that if she knew who was standing in front of her, she would ask Him for water and that He would give her water.  She would never be thirsty, because this water will be living water and it will be as a well within her.  We see now that where the Holy Spirit was on the face of the waters in the Old Testament, now the Holy Spirit is the well within.  He is now the source within and she will never thirst again.  Yeshua tells her that the Father is seeking those true worshippers who will worship Him in spirit and in truth.  The mere fact that He mentions true worshippers means that there can be false worshippers.  Now, the inclination is to think of song or to put on music to worship the Father.  But this is not what Yeshua meant.  He was talking about the Spirit within and that those who are true worshippers are those who worship in spirit and in truth.  The Spirit of God is the Spirit of Truth.  Yeshua was saying to her that the Father is seeking those who no longer live from the well of the Old Testament Law.  No longer live from having to try and get living water out of that well.  She could get water out of the well, but she was obviously tired.  Daily she had to come and get this water.  The next day, the water was done with and she had to go the same path up to the well with her waterpot, do the same thing and get the water out.  He was talking about the water from within, which we are now to live from.  In the New Testament the water is now within us.  Now we no longer live by the law, but we are under grace. 

PSALM 42:1 – 2; 7

1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

² My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

⁷ Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

I am reminded of one verse that David also said, “Lord, all my springs are shut up in Thee.”  What is your source?  From which well are you living from?

In John 14 Yeshua tell His disciples that it is expedient that He should leave.  They were upset, because He just told them that He is going away.  I can imagine how that must have felt to them.  Growing so close to Him, the amazing miracles and then out of the blue He tells them that He is going to leave them.  They were sad.  He told them, “You are now sad, but afterwards you are going to rejoice.  You are going to do greater works than what I did.”  What is greater than raising the dead?  The answer is…MANY raising the dead.  The same Spirit that was in Yeshua is now in His Body.  In every single one of us.  Not divided into us, but the same measure that was in Him.  I have just the same amount of the Spirit of God in me as the Son of Man, and so do you.  We need to meditate on these statements and take them in.  We need to really think about it and when we do, we need to ask relevant questions about our own lives if it is then true.

The first time Yeshua introduces the Holy Spirit to the disciples, He introduces Him as the Comforter.  The word Comforter comes from G8735 in the Strong’s Concordance and it means – Intercessor, Consoler and Advocate.  I find that interesting that Father God thought, “My children need to know that I will comfort them.”  This says a lot about His heart.  In John 16 Yeshua talks about what the Holy Spirit will do.

JOHN 16

¹³ Howbeit when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

¹⁴ He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

¹⁵ All things that the father hath are mine: Therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

The Holy Spirit will always bring attention to the Father and to Yeshua.  Once we are born again, we are no longer under the dispensation of the law, but we are under the dispensation of grace.  When the disciples came to Yeshua and asked Him which of the laws are the most important to keep, He told them that there are now two new laws that are the fulfillment of all the laws.  He was saying to them that not one of these laws will fall away, but there is a new way of fulfilling it and that new way is through grace. Now grace in itself is not just the grace that God extends to us to be saved.  Grace is also the ability of God to give us the power, wisdom and strength and everything we need in a given moment to fulfill the law at all times.  Once again, from which well are you drinking? 

Yeshua tells them that these two new laws are, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind and strength and the second is as the last, loving your neighbor as yourself.  This is the whole of the law.”  Now, our problem is that we struggle to fulfill that law.    Somehow, we can know the truth, but because of either cognitive dissonance or a veil that has to be lifted, we easily parrot a truth but not necessarily live in the reality of it.  Let’s read 1 Corinthians 15: 45.

1 CORINTHIANS 15: 45

⁴⁵ And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

Immediately what we see here is the Old Testament and the New Testament.  Adam the Old Testament and Yeshua, the Last Adam, the New Testament.  Old Testament – living soul.  New Testament – quickening spirit.  We were made in God’s image, but we all came from the lineage of Adam.  We are living souls.  What constitute a living soul?

A living soul constitutes everything that you are.  Your personality, your talents, your quirks, your humor etc.  Your personality with regard to whether you are a very serious person, funny, gregarious, or deep, artistic, even your ethnicity.  None of these things are going to fade away.  That is who He made you…fearfully and wonderfully.  That is what He chose for you and He wants you to celebrate it.  You are going to celebrate it forever in the Kingdom of God.  That is who you are going to be.  What He is going to change is your body.  In the meanwhile, all these things, your emotions, your intellect, knowledge and personality, is what you have been living from.  When you were born, Psalm 51 says, “Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceived me.  Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part thou shalt cause me to know wisdom.”  David was saying that he was born in iniquity and in sin conceived.  From the get go we drink from the wrong well.  When we are born again, we live by the Spirit.  The problem is from the one to the other and consistency, and the completion.  We do not want to drink from two wells at the same time.  We only want to drink from one.  This is where the Holy Spirit comes in.  The Holy Spirit sanctifies us.  Yes, the blood of Yeshua sanctified us, we are justified, but sanctification is as much a position as a process. The process is getting all of the soul under the control of the Spirit, so that you no longer live from your soul.  Your emotions, from your understanding or intellect.  It does not mean you become a zombie and you cannot think for yourself.  It means that all these things are under the control of the Spirit.  There are many life coaches out there that teach you about the weaknesses and strengths of your personality.  That weakness is called sin.  Because there is either fear involved with it or pride.  Your personality has to be sanctified.  Your talent has to be sanctified.  Your humor has to be sanctified and your emotions.  No matter how valid they are.  Father made us able to be angry and sad.  Even fear is a natural response or emotion.  Without fear we will not have the response of fight or flight.  Not fear from the enemy, but fear that are realistic.  All of these things that pertain to your life has to be under the control of the Spirit.  Everything that your life touches have to be sanctified.  Your marriage, your work, your relationship with the Lord, your traditions…all these things that constitute your life have to be sanctified by the Holy Spirit.  This is so that you no longer live from that well, but you now live from that well that is within you.   The Spirit of God that has engraved the word of God upon your heart.  That takes time.  More than anything we are like that woman at the well and every day we come to the same well, and draw water from that well.  Once we realize what we are doing, we repent and feel bad.  Father has patience with us and comes along side us and teaches us to surrender. He shows us.  We must be willing that He shows us when we do drink from the wrong well and the difference when we drink from Him and He works through us.  The name of the game is SURRENDER.  The name of the game is TRUST.  We are in Yeshua, He is in us and we are seated in heavenly places with the Father.  I was thinking of the two trees in the Garden and it reminded me of Jeremiah 17 and Psalm 1.  We can see our own lives how we tend to live either from trusting in man, which includes ourself.  This is the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.  Or, whether we are trusting or eating from the Tree of LIFE.   The Tree of LIFE is rooted and grounded in God’s soil of love (Eph. 3), but it is also in the living water, the Spirit of God.  The source of the Tree of LIFE, because that which is LIFE, is in the sap of that tree versus trusting in the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, trusting in man or self, whose roots are in bitter water.  Water that are often our experiences, our sinful nature, our traditions, all those things that needs to be sanctified.  The Lord God wants to bring the axe to the root and no longer wants us to partake of that tree.  He wants us to be grafted in completely.  Like I said in my previous devotional teaching, “In order to be grafted in, you have to be cut off.”  Everything about you needs to be sanctified and given to Him.   

JEREMIAH 17

⁵ Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

⁶ For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. (The earth was void)

⁷ Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

⁸ For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

¹⁰ I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

Here the Lord God is talking about two trees and from which source they live from.  Then He mentions the heart.  Why does He mention the heart after the two trees?  He mentions the heart, because the word says, “Guard your heart with all diligence, because out of it flows the issues of life.”  Flows…like a heart pumping blood.  Life is in the blood.  From which LIFE are you living?  He is saying our heart is desperately wicked and it is deceitful above all things.  He is talking about man and the arm of the flesh and trusting in that when we can trust in Him.  He says that He tries our reins, which is our choices and tries the fruit of our doings.  The Spirit of God searches our hearts with the LIGHT of His Word.  From which source are you drinking? 

What does it mean to drink from the Spirit of God?  The word of God is also referred to as water.  Paul speaks of the husband that has to wash his wife with the water of the word.  Later he refers to the Church as well.  The Word of God is WATER, LIFE AND TRUTH.  (John 17).  Yeshua told the enemy, “Man shall not live from bread alone, but from every word that comes from the Father.”  Bread is manmade and the word from the Father is eternal.  Manna from heaven.  He wants us to live from the Spirit.  Formerly your mind made all the decisions.   This is why Romans 12 tells us that we must be transformed by the renewing of our minds that we may know what is the good, acceptable and perfect will of God.  Our mind has always made the decisions.  But what does the word say in 1 Corinthians 2?

1 CORINTHIANS 2: 16

¹⁶ For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.

 

Romans 8: 14

¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

When you make decisions in your life, when you need to pray for someone, speak to someone, post or write something, when you need to help someone, do you stop and pray.  Do you wait and ask what the Father’s opinion is about that person?  When someone offends you and you want to give them a piece of your mind, would it not be better to give them a piece of His mind?  Does He not know all things?  We should stop.  The word says that we have one mouth and two ears.  We need to listen to the Father before we respond and to not be so quick to give an answer.  Just because you can, does not mean you have to.  We have to learn to wait on the Spirit.  We are called to walk by the Spirit.   In Isaiah 11: 2 we read about the Holy Spirit resting on Yeshua.

 

ISAIAH 11: 2

And the spirit of the lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the lord;

This is the spirit that rested upon Yeshua.  It is the same spirit that rests upon us.

This word, “spirit” in this scripture is written in lowercase.  In the same way when we meet someone and we like that person’s spirit.  The New Agers would call it their “aura”.  What exudes from that person.  What you sense of that person.  It is the essence of that person.  In the Strong’s Concordance it is H7307 - rûach or the breath of God.

From H7306; wind; by resemblance breath, that is, a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively life.

Natural air was breathed into Adam and he became a living soul, but when the Spirit of God comes, He brings LIFE into us, we become a quickening spirit.  If we had to take the word LIFE and instead of saying spirit, we say “life” in this scripture, which is the same thing, we can get a different view on it.  It helps us to understand what Father gave Yeshua to be the Patterned Son.  What He has given you and me. 

ISAIAH 11: 2

And the LIFE of the lord shall rest upon him, the LIFE of wisdom and understanding, the LIFE of counsel and might, the LIFE of knowledge and of the fear of the lord;

We understand that the spirit of God is the LIGHT AND LIFE of God.  That which is incorruptible.  There have been many debates about exactly what it means to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.  When Yeshua was told by the Pharisees that He was driving out the demons by the spirit of Beelzebub, He told them that many things will be forgiven them, but blaspheming against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.  Many see that them saying that He drove the demons out by the spirit of Beelzebub, that this was the actual blaspheming.  It makes sense.  I would also like to see it another way.  It was almost as if Yeshua was saying, “You can say what you want about My Father and about Me, but let us just make one thing clear.  I draw the line when it comes to My Spirit.”  Often people debate about what Yeshua’s name is or is not.  I think of when the Pharisees told Him that He was driving out the demons through the spirit of Beelzebub, that He did not fall apart and call lightning from the sky and burn them to ashes, but simply said that they are not to blaspheme against the Spirit.   Let’s leave it at that.  Satanic cults assure those who get involved, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit or deny the Holy Spirit and thereby ensure that they would be forever damned.  However, there are those who do not partake in this and are still saved. 

The question I want to ask is, “What kind of relationship do you think Yeshua had with the Holy Spirit?”  When we ask this question, we need to think of the purpose why He came.  He came to be the spotless Lamb, without blemish, without spot or wrinkle.  Not even in His thoughts.  Not even in one thought.  What kind of relationship did He have with the Holy Spirit?  The other purpose He came was to represent the Father.  He had to reveal the Father to us.  He had to be the Patterned Son.  He had to come and show us how to live the way God intended Adam to live.  This is why He came as the Last Adam.  He could have come just as Yeshua or our Saviour, but Father specifically chose Him to come as the Last Adam to show us what it is to live by the Spirit as He intended it for Adam and Eve.  What kind of relationship did He have with the Holy Spirit?  What kind of conversations did He have with Him in those quiet moments where we often read in the word that He went aside to speak to the Father?  What kind of intimacy was there?  How desperately did He cling to the Holy Spirit?  What kind of trust was there?  Or do you think that it was a breeze?  Do you think that He just sat there and got His infilling and off He went for the day?

He told His disciples in John 13, “I can do nothing without the Father.” Just like us.  Whatever I see the Father do, I do. Whatever I hear the Father speak, I speak.  And whatever works I do, the Father does through Me.”  He was filled with the Spirit and it was the Spirit that was doing it through Him.  We do not stand a chance if He had all His divine attributes.  He stripped Himself of all these divine attributes and became the Patterned Son and lived by the Spirit to show us how to live.  I think that we often think that we can never be like Yeshua.  That is not true.  Why would He be the Patterned Son if we cannot be like Him?  That brings us once again to the source, to which well we are drinking from. 

When it comes to our relationship with the Holy Spirit, we can look at the intimacy within a marriage.  When a couple first get married, it is all roses and hearts and they are infatuated with each other and cannot get enough of each other.  Then the honeymoon subsides and life has its way with us.  It is at that time that you get to know your spouse.  You get to know their personality.  The good and the bad.  You get to know their tone of voice.  They might say something often, but one day they say it in a different way and you pick up in your heart that there was more to the saying than what you heard.   You are able to finish each other’s sentences.  You know what the other person needs without them having to say, able in a situation where something good or bad has happened to them, to feel with them.  There is such a unity and a bond between the two of you.  You are so united and in tune with each other’s emotions, needs and wants, that you do not even have to speak one word with each other to know what they need and you feel what the other person feels.  It touches you deeply.  That is the type of relationship that we must have with the Holy Spirit. 

How do we treat the Holy Spirit?  An example I want to use here is from when my daughter had an argument with me the other day.  She was having a particular bad day and said some things that would be best left unsaid.  It was inevitable that I had to punish her or discipline her.  And it was not a small punishment.  However, my daughter has a very strong personality where she would often “cut off her nose, to spite her face”.  Usually this leaves her at a greater loss.  She just casually turned around and told me that it does not phase her in the least.  That is a “catch 22” situation.  I could make the punishment greater, but because of her disposition to not care, it would not solve the problem.  I looked to her and said, “I wonder what your Father would say about that?”  She turned around and did not like that idea at all.  “Please don’t tell …”  Of course, I still told her Father. 

The Holy Spirit started to talk to me about that.  We know that the Holy Spirit is often, concerning the Comforter, as a mother figure.  A dove, the softness of God and the love of God.  I see us often treating the Holy Spirit like we treat mothers in a way.  Not that fathers do not treat us this way, but a mother forgives and forgives.  She gives and is willing to do so much for her children and are willing to lay her life down for her children.  A mother is there in the middle of the night and always gives wisdom, holds, cries, teaches and is seen as the heart of the house.  And yet, so easily, when the Holy Spirit treats us this way, always there for us, always forgiving, and speak to us and say, “Don’t do that, don’t say that word, don’t watch that program.  Please don’t post that.”  How often do we ignore the Holy Spirit, that life within us?  How often do we make as if we have not heard it at all, or we think of some way we can compromise or get ourselves out of it?  How often do we just flat-out rebel?  We think we can have this disposition towards the Holy Spirit?  Almost as if we do not respect the person of the Holy Spirit, but only enjoy and value the function of the Holy Spirit and what we can get from the Holy Spirit.  I think that this is what He wants to speak to us about.  Our disposition towards the Holy Spirit.  Because the Holy Spirit is never spoken of in the Word as “it”, but always as “He”.  He has feelings. 

Yeshua came to this earth, God to dwell amongst us.  God literally coming down and dying for us in a cruel death.  Equally is the miracle that He lives in us.  God lives in us.  When we truly think about that and allow the Spirit to reveal that to us, we will be down on our faces.   He truly deserves more from us than what we are giving Him. 

1 CORINTIANS 6

¹⁷ But he that is joined unto the lord is one spirit.

I was saying my memory verses the other day.  At this point I want to encourage you to do the same.  The time we are going in will be a great famine of the Word of God and it is going to be a terrible time.  There will not be opportunities to share the Word of God the way we do now.  A time is going to come that, that word that you have stored up in your heart, will be a saving grace to get you through the most difficult time.  I asked the Holy Spirit which chapters He wanted me to memorise.  During the course of the week, in every day things that I do, I am always memorizing scripture, because I want it in my heart.  It will enrich you. 

I was memorizing Psalm 23 and I came to this part of the psalm.

PSALM 23

⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

When I came to the part of the rod and staff that comforts us, my mind went to the Comforter, the Holy Spirit.  I was wondering whether there is any significance between the rod and the staff.  They both comfort and both represent the Holy Spirit. 

1.    STAFF - support (abstractly), that is, (figuratively) sustenance or (concretely) a walking stick: - staff. – You rest or depend on a staff to help you, to support you. 

When I read this, I thought of the devotional that I did, called “A limp and a new Name or Understanding the ways of God”.  I discussed Jacob that was wrestling with the Angel of Lord and his hip socket that was touched and he walked away with a limp, but also with a new name, “Prince of God”.  That limp was forever with him, so that whenever they saw Jacob, they recognized him by his limp.  I think that he may have had a staff as well.  This is the disposition, the weakness that we need to embrace, unable to fulfil the law or to do the will of God, because in embracing that, we will lean on the STAFF of God.  Then we are called Prince of God, because the Spirit of God becomes our source.  This is the staff that comforts us, the one we lean upon.  I had a vision that I want to tell you about that holds hands with the disposition Father wants of us and forms part of our heart towards the Holy Spirit.

VISION

This vision was about a little girl.  I saw a scene playing out before me.  It was a poor situation, the idea of a poor neighbourhood, where you would find lots of flats.  You would walk down the corridors, as you pass the different doors, you will hear people fighting, glass breaking, the dog yelping, children crying and swearing.  The next moment I was inside one of the homes and saw this little girl, dirty and very sweet sitting on the dirty ground.  Her mother and father were fighting in front of her.  The father was very big.  He had a vest on, hairy, bald and sweaty.  Foul mouth and looked like a bully.  Very strong and big.  He picked up the girl and walked out the room with her and put her down on the way.  He then went into another room, and I knew that she knew that she was to follow him.  She had to obey him, because he is angry.  As he went in, I saw the little girl grab the door handle and quickly closed the door and locked it.  She turned around and rushed away.  As she was running down the steps, I saw under her arm, her teddy bear. 

I asked Father what He wanted to tell me through this vision.  He said to me.

“Even a little child can bind a strongman.” 

He told me that the Teddy Bear represents THE COMFORTER.  Even as little girls and boys, the first thing we receive when born, is a comforter.  It is the first thing we do.  Just like when we are born again, the Father gives us the COMFORTER.  Father was speaking to me through that little girl saying, “This is the disposition that I need My children to be in.  That they would be so dependent on My Holy Spirit, that they would know, it is not how strong they are.  Because I do not expect them to be strong within themselves.  They cannot.  They cannot do anything without Me.  I want them to depend on My Spirit.  Just like the little girl that clutches her teddy bear. You can take anything from her, but don’t you dare take her teddy bear.  

The word COMFORTER COMES FROM: H5162 / INTERCESSOR, CONSOLER AND ADVOCATE.

to sigh, that is, breathe strongly; by implication to be sorry, that is, to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or to avenge (oneself): - comfort, ease.

This is what the Holy Spirit does.  I would like to give a small testimony here again of my daughter.  She came to me the other day telling me about her day.  My daughter has 5 disorders, so it has been a journey.  She was telling me about her day and she was crying.  She does this every day.  It is nothing new to me and I am deeply intimate with how my daughter feels.  She was telling me this and it was nothing new.  I knew that I just needed to let her tell her story and just be an ear to her and not try and fix it.  Whilst she was telling me how she felt, I started to cry.   I do not do that often when she tells me, because I want to be strong for her.  But I started to cry.  Not because I was helpless, but because I deeply felt her helplessness.  I felt her sorrow.  I felt her pain, I felt her struggle, I felt her aloneness in the struggle.   The tears started to run down my face and she looked at me and she became quiet.  And in that moment, I realized that just because I felt with her, it consoled her.  In that moment, I knew that it was not me that was feeling this with her, it was the Holy Spirit.  And it is the Holy Spirit that feels so intimately our burdens, our pain, our aloneness.  He knows all things and He lives in us.  I wanted to comfort you with the knowledge of the Comforter and how deeply He feels with us. 

PSALM 103: 13 - 14

¹³ Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

¹⁴ For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

He pities us.  Please listen to the Word He is giving us.

 

Word received on 17^th February 2022

ME THROUGH YOU

 

It is never what you can do.  And as long as you still think you must do it; you are not one with Me.  You are still unbelieving. 

But you have to exercise your faith.  You have to do as I tell you.  Listen and obey My every command and I will do the impossible.  Trust Me for the impossible.  Act out your faith continually. 

I am the LIFE in you that will do through you.  Not you through Me.  Just like I had to be obedient to My Father in what He showed Me or what I heard.  Your obedience is your dependence and your obedience is an act of faith that you trust Me for the results.

You can do nothing.  I could do nothing.  But I lived by My Father and you must live by Me.  Walk in the knowing that we are one.  In covenant where your inability is Mine and My ability is yours.  The covenant we have is a covenant of faith.  The covenant is only in affect by faith.  And faith is trusting Me and living by Me.  This is why you have to be as a child. 

Simple trust.

Simple dependence.

Just Me through you.

May you allow the Spirit to work this disposition in you.  That you would cherish the Holy Spirit and allow Him to work in you.  Trust Him and cherish Him.

Amen.