Are you leaning on the Lord? Some of you lean on people, your opinions, your feelings and so many other things instead of leaning on Jesus. The Bible says, Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved (Song of Solomon 8:5)?

Who is she?—the Bride of Christ, and she is leaning upon her Lord. Are you a member of the Bride? The only way you will be brought out of the wilderness of this old world and all its sin is by leaning upon Jesus. It is also the only way you will make the Rapture.

You can’t lean on someone unless you are in step with them, so you have to be in step with Jesus. Every step with Him should be a divine step. How beautiful are thy feet with shoes (Song of Solomon 7:1). Those are the shoes of Jesus, and He has a pair to fit the feet of every person.

Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant (Song of Solomon 3:6)? Do you have that beautiful perfume of divine love, and do you serve it to others?

The Lord gives everyone a big dose of His love when they get saved, and it’s called first love. That love won’t mix with bitterness, depression or discouragement; but it will bring you out of all those things and so much more. First love is perfect love, and that’s the kind of love the Bible gives the definition of in I Corinthians 13.

Do You Hinder God?

That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish (Ephesians 5:27). The members of the bridal company will be spotless, and you won’t make it out of the wilderness of this world unless you are. You must also receive the Holy Ghost, which is power from On High, and be obedient to the Lord in all things. The Bible says, Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice (I Samuel 15:22). Some people will sacrifice all kinds of things, but they won’t obey the Lord.

Are you a member of the bridal company, or do you hinder God? Do you hinder Him in not winning the souls you should, in not praying when He wants you to or in not fasting when He calls you to? Hindering God in any way is bad business.

Jesus is our example of how divinity is to work in human beings. He came to Earth as a man, and He used divinity as we are supposed to use it. He walked the waters, healed the sick, raised the dead and delivered people from all kinds of demonic spirits. He showed us that we can have power over the devil all the time and send him running in the other direction. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you (James 4:7).

No Defeat in Jesus

The Groom, Jesus, is saying to the Bride, Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee (Song of Solomon 4:7). The Bride is beautiful, but she is also fearless. Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners (Song of Solomon 6:10)? Children of God carry love and joy like the world has never seen before. They’re on their way out of this world shouting, “There’s no defeat in Christ Jesus! We will win! We always win!”

We live in the great hour of the pouring out of the Spirit. Jesus said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works [meaning in greater numbers] than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father (John 14:12). Are you leaning on Jesus and using the benefits of this hour? Are you walking in His steps of love and faith every day? You can’t take a few steps with Jesus and then decide, “I’ll walk with Him another day.” You’ll never keep up with Him that way.

You can’t be a part of this world in any way. In Old Testament days, the Lord winked at ignorance; or He would have killed more people than He did. But since Christ came, everyone is called to repentance. Nobody is excused. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent (Acts 17:30).

You Need the Holy Ghost

Are you on call with Jesus 24 hours around the clock? Prayer can be so exciting when you have reality in it. When you have the Holy Ghost living within and yield to Him, He will take you over and utter groanings from the innermost part of you that you could never utter on your own. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God (Romans 8:26, 27).

You must have the Holy Ghost to make it through this life and get you ready for the Rapture, or you’ll be left in the wilderness. If you don’t have the Spirit living within, now’s the time to open your eyes and decide, “I’m going to get the Holy Ghost no matter how many hours it takes.”

Jesus knew how important having the Holy Ghost was; so before He ascended back to Heaven, He told the disciples, And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high (Luke 24:49). Some people say they stayed seven days, and some say they stayed ten; but I say it doesn’t matter. The most important thing is that they stayed until they received that power from On High. That same power is available to you today.

Never Grumble

Some of you listen to people more than you listen to God; and that’s the reason you are full of doubt, fear, depression and so many other things a child of God should not have. The Bible says, Rejoice evermore (I Thessalonians 5:16). The joy of the LORD is your strength (Nehemiah 8:10). Do you think Jesus wants to be around an unhappy Bride? Some people are in such an awful state that I don’t know how the Lord can stand them.

Some of you complain and grumble about how hard you are having it, but maybe it’s because the Lord wants to get all of that out of you. Isn’t it awful to be around someone who’s always complaining about something and never has anything good to say? Well, the Lord thinks it’s awful too.

Jesus lived on Earth as a man, so He knows how hard things can be. He cried when He was standing before the tomb of His friend Lazarus. When Jesus therefore saw her [Mary] weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see. Jesus wept (John 11:33-35). Jesus knew that Lazarus was going to be resurrected, but He was weeping for the sorrows of people losing loved ones in death. It broke His heart.

Jesus cried over Jerusalem saying, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not (Matthew 23:37)! Jesus had arms of love for all of those people, but they didn’t accept His love; and they still don’t today. Those who reject the Lord will deserve all they get after the one flight out takes place.

Turn Everything Over to the Lord

Jesus said, Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28). Every morning, you must separate what you can take care of and what you can’t. Then you must turn the things you can’t do over to the Lord. Why carry unnecessary burdens when you can have divine help?

Some of you constantly worry about your children until you’re nearly crazy. If you have raised them right, then you have to put them under the blood and leave them there. They have to make their own decision as to whether or not they want to go to Heaven, and they have to fall in love with Jesus to be able to do that.

God doesn’t look at the outside of a person; He looks at the heart. For the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart (I Samuel 16:7). You may not have a perfect, flesh heart; but you can have a perfect, spiritual heart without ego, distress, weaknesses, despair and unforgiveness.

A perfect, spiritual heart also has no fear, so you don’t have to be afraid of tomorrow. You must know that God is with you and that He holds tomorrow in His hands. Take hold of His hand and live in His everlasting promises found in the Word. The Bible says, But the word of the Lord endureth for ever (I Peter 1:25).

The everlasting love arm of the Lord is always reaching out to you so lean on it. It will bring you up out of every valley and help you climb every mountain.

Never Trust Self

You must learn about divinity because it takes divine faith working in you to be able to lean on Jesus. When you have faith in God, you will trust Him. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths (Proverbs 3:5, 6).

Leaning to your own understanding causes problems. People will come to me crying, “Pray, pray, pray,” when they have gotten themselves into trouble; but they should have prayed before they decided to do what they did. If they had been leaning upon the Lord, He would not have led them on that path.

You can’t run ahead of God. You are a free moral agent, and you can choose to go whatever way you want to; but the Bible says, O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps (Jeremiah 10:23).

The more you lean on Jesus, the closer you will be to Him; but you can’t lean on Him if you are walking afar off. Can two walk together, except they be agreed (Amos 3:3)? You can’t walk with the Lord unless you agree with His Gospel. Leaning on your own theories won’t work. You have to throw them aside and have faith in the promises of God. The just shall live by faith (Romans 1:17). We are not living in Eden, so you must know and live by the promises of God.

Faith Pleases God

The Bible tells us that Abraham leaned on God and His promises through faith. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness (Romans 4:20-22). Abraham is called father of the faithful after all these years.

Enoch leaned on God and was raptured. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God (Hebrews 11:5). It pleases God when you lean on Him; but if you displease Him and are disobedient, He won’t take all your burdens and leave you with a song.

Divine faith pleases God, but without faith it is impossible to please him (Hebrews 11:6). Where does that faith come from? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17). Faith is so important that it is one of the fruits of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22,23 and one of the nine gifts of the Spirit listed in I Corinthians 12:8-10.

Every person is given a measure of faith. God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith (Romans 12:3). No one can find Calvary without that measure of faith, but many never use that faith and are never really saved.

Faith in God Brings Victory

The Bible is full of wonderful people who have leaned on God. It will help you to study the lives of those I have already mentioned as well as others. Noah and his family leaned on God and built the ark through faith. By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith (Hebrews 11:7). Those eight people were close enough to God to accept everything He said whether anyone else believed it or not.

Joseph learned to lean on God when he was sold into slavery by his own brothers. Years later, he became second in power under Pharoah over all of Egypt, and then God used him to save his people from the famine. And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families (Genesis 47:12).

Moses’ parents were leaning on God when Moses was born. At that time, Pharoah was killing all the Hebrew baby boys; so by faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment (Hebrews 11:23). They risked their lives for Moses; but when you lean on God, you will do His will no matter what it costs, knowing everything is going to be all right.

After the children of God left Egypt, Pharoah’s army went after them. By leaning upon God, they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned (Hebrews 11:29). It’s so sad that those people did not continue to lean on God because then they would not have had to wander in the wilderness for forty years.

According to the word of God, Joshua marched the Israelite soldiers around the walls of Jericho for seven days. God said that not one of them could talk during that time. He did not want to hear one grumble or complaint. Then by faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days (Hebrews 11:30). Those people didn’t have to use any weapons, but they did have to get themselves in shape for God to move. There will be times when you too will have to do certain things to get yourself in shape to lean on the Lord, and you should be willing to do whatever it takes.

Miracles from Leaning on God

We were not born leaning upon God. Because Adam and Eve sinned, we were conceived in iniquities and sin. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me (Psalm 51:5).

In the beginning, Adam and Eve had the image of God. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them (Genesis 1:27). But they lost that image when they sinned. Since then, a person has to be born again before they can have the image of God.

Rahab was a woman of the streets, but she saved her life and the lives of her family by leaning on the Lord. By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the [Israelite] spies with peace (Hebrews 11:31). The king of Jericho demanded she turn over those spies, but she hid them. Then because she lived on the edge of the city, she let them climb out of her window and down the wall by hanging onto a red cord. It represented the saving blood of Jesus; and you can follow that cord of blood through the Old Testament, into the New Testament and to the Cross of Calvary.

Gideon had to learn to lean on God in a great way. The Lord had told him, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites (Judges 6:14). So Gideon gathered together 32,000 men to go up with him against the enemy; but God said, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me (Judges 7:2).

The Lord then told Gideon to tell all those who were afraid to go home, and 22,000 of them left. Next, the Lord told Gideon to take the men to the water and have them drink. Those who did not stay alert and watching for the enemy while they drank were sent home.

Finally, Gideon was left with only 300 men to go up against the entire army of the Midianites; but because he obeyed the Lord, the Israelites won. And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled (Judges 7:21). If Gideon had not learned to lean on Jesus, that never would have happened.

You Need Divinity Within

If you don’t believe the whole Gospel, you’re not a new creation in Christ; and you’re not leaning upon the Lord. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (II Corinthians 5:17). You must have divinity within you.

David had divinity within, and he learned to lean on God as just a youngster. The Lord then helped him kill a bear and a lion, and he gave God all the glory. Later, he faced the giant Goliath; and through faith, he declared, The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine (I Samuel 17:37).

David had just a slingshot and five stones as he approached that giant, but he also had God on his side. And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David (I Samuel 17:49, 50). David was leaning on God.

Know Yourself

When you lean on God, you won’t be bound with fear. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind (II Timothy 1:7). That sound mind is the mind of Christ, and you must have that mind to make it to Rapture ground in this dangerous hour.

The mind of Christ will enable you to separate the spirit of divinity from the human spirit. Do you really know your spirit? Do you know when you’re failing God? Do you know when you’re not keeping up in prayer or in studying the Word? Are you embracing everything Jesus stands for? If not, you’re not leaning upon Him; and when you depend on self to get you out of the wilderness, you will never make it.

To lean on Jesus and keep up with Him, you must run the race set before you. Paul said, Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us (Hebrews 12:1). You must know where you are going, know who loves you, know your mission in life and abide in your calling. You must hunger and thirst for more and more of God. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled (Matthew 5:6).

Jesus said, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly [that means his innermost being] shall flow rivers of living water (John 7:37,38). Are those living waters of the Spirit really flowing from you? Do you even have the baptism of the Spirit? There is no limit to the anointings of God you can receive when you have the Holy Ghost living within you.

What Faith Will Do

The saints of God listed in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, known as the faith chapter, were leaning upon the Lord. Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions (Hebrews 11:33). There is nothing to fear when you’re leaning upon God and living through divinity. You will be a success for God no matter what you have to go through.

Those saints quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goat-skins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) (Hebrews 11:34-38). They all made it through by leaning on the Lord, and they should be your examples. The Bride will make it through by leaning on her Lord too.

Be Like Jesus

You must become just like Jesus. You must talk like Him and act like Him. You can’t be up one minute and down the next; you must be steady in the Lord and have victory in Him every day. You must put Him first all the time because He must be first in your heart.

When you lean on Jesus, you will agree with Him in all things and live in the whole Gospel. You will always be seeking more and more knowledge of the truth. The Bible declares, Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ (Ephesians 4:13).

After Pentecost, the disciples always leaned on the Lord’s everlasting arm. You must do that too. The arm of divinity is a glorious arm of love; and you must never be far from it, or you will be defeated again and again.

The Bible declares that Jesus never changes. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever (Hebrews 13:8). Are you steadfast, or are you changeable? Do you have the same love for Jesus every day? Do you have the same power He had when He walked on Earth? Do you have the same divine determination? Can people see the fruits of the Spirit in your life? If not, you are not leaning on Jesus as you should.

The rich, young ruler thought he was leaning on Jesus when he went to Him wanting to know how he could go to Heaven. Jesus said, Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother. And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up (Luke 18:20, 21). Then Jesus told him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me (Luke 18:22). That young man was not leaning upon the Lord like he thought he was.

I’m sure Jesus would not have made that young man give everything away. He just wanted to know if the man was willing, but he wasn’t; so he went away in great sorrow. If you don’t lean upon the Lord in this final hour, you too will have great sorrow.

Let Jesus Save and Heal You

If you don’t have Jesus in your heart, ask Him in today. Jesus is the only way to Heaven; and that is why He came saying, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (John 14:6). He also said, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber (John 10:1). There are no side doors to Heaven. The only way to get there is through the Word, Jesus. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth (John 1:14).

Jesus wants to come into your heart and be your everything. Pray this prayer with me now: Oh, God, I’m so sorry I have sinned against you. Forgive me of all my sins. I believe you died for me, and I know your divine blood can cleanse me from all sin. Come into my heart, Jesus. Come on in, Jesus. Amen.

If you meant that prayer, Jesus has come. Start reading your Bible, praying and spending time in His holy presence. Bible fasting will help you too.

Now, if you are sick or afflicted, Jesus is your healer. Lean on Him and let Him make you whole today as I pray. Oh, God, I bring the sick and afflicted to you. Lord, lay a healing hand on them right now. Let them feel your healing power flowing through them and getting them well. Heal! Heal! in the all-powerful name of Jesus I pray. Heal!

Watch for every sign of improvement daily and give God all the praise, the honor and the glory.