As we learn to listen and be led by the Holy Spirit in this dispensation, we are finding that they mysteries of the Father are being revealed more and more. As the End of the Church Age approaches, there are things that have been appointed to be revealed for only this time. We now have access to some things the Father has held in reserve for only this time.
We, the Church, are faced with a ministry we've never been faced with before. We are to "go into the byways and see to if that the Father's house is full." We are now the "laborers of the harvest" and the harvest is more plentiful than ever before.
The persecution of the Church has intensified, but we also see the "grace that is sufficient for thee" being revealed. His grace is still sufficient for all of our needs. The Word says that, "Where iniquity abounds, the grace of God does much more abound." It's vital that in this day and age, for us to be open to the Voice and Leading of the Holy Spirit.
The present day ministry of the Holy Spirit is critical and we, the Church, must listen carefully to the "Still small voice" that is leading us more than ever before.
Throughout the years, we've had many men and women of God who heard what most seemed to miss. Those days are coming to a close. The time of the Church "Superstars" is about to end and each person is going to have to hear for themselves. We've become accustomed to the T.V. ministries or the pastors building the Church. Now, the Holy Spirit is going to build it like never before. The common folks in the Church will be like the seventy that Jesus sent out. He still has other sheep who aren't of the same fellowship or denomination who are anointed.
The Father is making the gifts and ministry of the Holy Spirit available to all who will receive Him. The power of intercession and the anointing for healings and miracles is being made available to the Church on a scale never seen before. We have the "catching up of the Church" and the completing of the Body of Christ like never before.
I had the privilege of meeting a young man the other morning and revealing and leading him to Jesus. I wasn't trying to push him into a certain denomination, but was making him a child of God. As I simply allowed the Holy Spirit to "Light" my words to him, I witnessed the transformation of his countenance and saw the change in his eyes.
We seem to want counseling and classes to lead someone to Christ, but Jesus just goes into the darkness and brings light into a new believer. We try making becoming born again so difficult and miss God's simple plan. We were never meant to be the Savior when leading someone to Jesus. We simply reveal Jesus the Savior to them and the Holy Spirit will complete the rest.
When I came to the Lord, He never told me how to walk with Him. He simply told me to follow Him. My walk was His walk. The Lord is my Shepherd and He leads me in paths of righteousness for His Name's sake. He never told me to stop smoking, drinking or cursing. He simply told me to "Follow Him." And, as I followed Him, the other things simply ceased to be part of my life.
I've found that listening to the world's advice on following Him made it harder to do so and that listening to the Holy Spirit makes it much easier. The more I tried to become righteous through my own works, the more difficult my walk with God became. I finally learned how to receive righteousness from Him and stop trying to make my own righteousness.
Today, many are still trying to do what God has already given us and made us to be. I heard a quote from Dr. Seuss at our recent preschool graduation that said, "Just be yourself, everyone else is already taken." We need to just be who the Father created us to be. We are all unique in our own right. You are in a place to reach other people that no one else is in. There are people you live with, are related to, work with and deal with who are only people only unique to your witness.
Trust the Holy Spirit to speak through you and move through you to bring those people into relationship with Jesus. Don't be concerned about who they are or what they do, just trust Him to change them,. Each person is different and require what only the Holy Spirit knows about them to change them.
We cannot organize sinners into Christians, only the Holy Spirit can fit the Body of Christ together properly. We have sometimes organized the Holy Spirit out of a job in our own churches. No one organized the Day of Pentecost, it just came. And, when it came, more people were saved in five minutes than the Scribes and Pharisees ever did. After that day, the disciples trusted in the Holy Spirit for all the work that was to be done.
Once, when Peter tried organizing things concerning the Gentiles, the Holy Spirit simply "fell" on Cornelius ad his entire household and did what Peter thought wasn't obtainable. The revelation of the grace and salvation of God reached much farther than man believed it reached. Acts 10:34 (Amplified) says, "And Peter opened his mouth and said; Most certainly and thoroughly I now perceive and understand that God shows no partiality and is no respecter of persons."
God "Would that all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of Him and that none should perish." Sometimes, we have unspoken things in our lives that are out of reach for people to change, but the Holy Spirit can and will change them. There are some who are always "at a loss for words" and no one would believe they could preach, but God says they're good candidates for becoming Apostles. We need to listen to the Holy Spirit and let Him "Guide us into all truth."
Do not be deceived into thinking we have it "all figured out." God has things we have never seen or heard yet and they will not only change others, but us too. The "Secret things belong to God," but everything the Father has is now made available to those who have "ears to hear."
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