22nd August 2024
Grace For You Today!
Encounter Jesus The King Of Glory and Reign On Earth Through The Counsel Of The Spirit!
“How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart daily? How long will my enemy be exalted over me? Consider and hear me, O Lord my God; Enlighten my eyes, Lest I sleep the sleep of death;” Psalms 13:1-3aNKJV
The Psalmist is lamenting over his pathetic state of affairs seeing that on one side he is tormented and frustrated by his enemy, as his enemy has the upper hand over him and on the other side, the Psalmist is not receiving the expected answer from God. Diverse thoughts rage within him bombarding him even to the point of feeling that God has forgotten him and let him down or even forsaken him.
The frustrated Psalmist then questions himself saying, “ How long should I take counsel in my soul?”
Ah! This statement simply shows us where exactly the problem actually lies- It is because of taking counsel in one’s soul, forgetting that man is a spirit made in the very image of God who is a Spirit and this God who is a Spirit communes with man’s spirit. From our spirit counsel & life of God permeates into our soul & our body.
All he needs to do is to simply calm down his soul that is so perturbed & desperate and allow his spirit to emerge and communicate what God is saying to his understanding i.e soul.
Counsel from the spirit is the ‘right counsel’ to think & it is the life giving, permanent solution.
Therefore, he is praying saying, “Enlighten my eyes”. “Eyes” don’t mean physical eyes but it means “eyes of understanding” just as it is mentioned in Ephesians prayer in Ephesians 1:18 “the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints….,”
Yes my beloved, your soul is limited in understanding and doesn’t have the right solution to problems that you face every day. You need the spirit’s elucidation into your soul every day – Spirit’s counsel!
Commune with the Holy Spirit. Allow Him to throw light to ( enlighten) your soul. Speaking in tongues greatly helps in bringing out the needed counsel from the Holy Spirit into your soul. Confessing incessantly that you are the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus calms down your soul and will usher in the desired counsel from the Blessed Holy Spirit that will make your enemy your footstool and you reign in Jesus name. Amen 🙏
Praise Jesus our RIGHTEOUSNESS !!
Grace Revolution Gospel Church