While the Holy Spirit has authority and power, you can absolutely shut the door to Him. He will not be manhandled.

 

Sometimes there’s a decision to make. How badly do you want the anointing of God versus the glory of man?

 

I’ve beat my head up against much in my life. Driving forward, pressing through, and frankly, sometimes it was just me working against the Spirit of God.

 

Today, I’m just not interested in a Spirit-less move. Time is of the essence. I need His life in me and also His life that pours out of me. It’s His desire that we make room for Him.

 

Once you’ve tasted such freedom in the Spirit, you just can’t go back. You can’t unlearn or unsee a thing. It leaves a lasting mark.

 

I’ve planned God right out of my life in the past. I’ve gotten in my own way and ultimately in His way. Both were obvious in the end. But I, often, stood my ground and demanded my own way or in the least failed to discern the way of the Spirit and missed the shift trying to “help God out.” To a measure, I lost that very moment of life He had offered me.

 

I’ve learned I can’t live there anymore. I yearn for His glory to manifest. I hunger for His presence. I long for His Spirit to flow and move around me and through me. Exalting Christ by His Spirit is necessary to my very health and life and to those around me in need of Him.

 

I must be able to operate freely with Him and at His direction.

 

It’s a wonderful thing to be free with the Holy Spirit. It’s also a beautiful kind of “easy.” In the past I didn’t realize that I had way more “hard” than was necessary.

 

In those cases, I see now that He never assigned that “hard” to me. I did it all on my own.

 

There is an ease in the move of God. You don’t have to force one single thing. It just flows like a river. It doesn’t mean there aren’t trials, but you’ll know when the wind of the Spirit is directing something, and you’ll also know when He is not.

 

Discernment is key in order to make God adjustments. We must move to His desires, not our own. Otherwise, we’ve turned over His work to another.

 

Whatever wall you’re beating your head up against, release it. Perhaps it’s a “hard” that is not necessary in this season. It will bring a weariness and a death to your soul that is not desired by the Lord.

 

Look for the “ease” of the Spirit. In that place will be a beautiful work of God that brings life to all it touches, including your own.

 

“… For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

(Matthew 11:30)