In Luke chapter 5, Jesus had entered Capernaum and was in a house full of people where many gathered together, so that there was no longer room to receive them, not even near the door.:
17 Now it happened on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
18 Then behold, men brought on a bed a man who was paralyzed, whom they sought to bring in and lay before Him.
19 And when they could not find how they might bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the housetop and let him down with his bed through the tiling into the midst before Jesus.
20 When He saw their faith, He said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”
21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
22 But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, He answered and said to them, “Why are you reasoning in your hearts?
23 Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up and walk’?
24 But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the man who was paralyzed, “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.”
25 Immediately he rose up before them, took up what he had been lying on, and departed to his own house, glorifying God. 26 And they were all amazed, and they glorified God and were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today!”
Do you believe that everyone in that house could have been healed that day? Absolutely! The power to heal was there but it hindered once the “reasoning” of the mind began. When you begin trying to figure out the how, why, when, where, to what degree FATHER is moving you begin to quench THE SPIRIT in your life and when you quench the Holy Spirit, you miss a blessing in your life.
I have been around many who use their reasoning as the guide to their walk and it would seem that everything they do always points to the future. There is a much smaller group who are led by THE SPIRIT who live a rich life of blessing and ministry to others in the here and now. Which path are you on?
In Matthew chapter 4, Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. How many of us would reason away that particular path? But it was necessary for Jesus to pass this test before His ministry was to move forward. Each of us will be tested to see if we respond to THE SPIRIT or instead reason away why we should take another path. Once you began to deliberate, you have failed that particular test.
A man I know was told by FATHER to give an elderly woman a twenty dollar bill. When he opened his wallet, he immediately saw a ten dollar bill and his mind drew him to compromise what FATHER had told him. Nevertheless he looked further and found the twenty dollar bill and gave it to her. Your mind will try to compromise at any given opportunity, especially when it involves money. Compromise enters in most often where you are at your weakest. If you are led by the Spirit you will not submit to the weakness of the flesh and its trappings, you will be blessed with the fruit of THE SPIRIT.
Paul wrote in Galatians chapter 5:
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
And in contrast Paul further wrote:
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
At this hour, there is an activation and authentication of those who are led by THE SPIRIT. I beseech you to get in your prayer closet and get quiet before FATHER. Quiet your mind for HIS SPIRIT is activating those who are willing to be led fully by HIS SPIRIT. Don’t let your mind talk you out of what HE has in store for you. Whatever FATHER tells you to do, just do it. Don’t reason away into the abyss of compromise.
James 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting (or reasoning), for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Don’t let the deliberations of your mind keep you from inheriting the Kingdom of Our Heavenly Father for HIS Kingdom is at hand.