Holy Wind
"And it shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then you shall advance quickly. For then the Lord will go out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.” (2 Samuel 5:24)
Do we need to know the will of God? And if so then what, essentially, is God's will? Moses gives a very precise definition of God's will: His ways. To know God's will is to know His ways, to know which direction the movement of God's power is going. If one knows this, then it becomes possible to move in His power. Then, naturally, successful movement is guaranteed. Any movement that does not correspond to the movement of the Spirit of God will be in resistance to the movement of His power. This is the same as when there is movement with or against the wind, any movement against the wind will meet with resistance from the wind.
The Hebrew for the “Holy Spirit” is “Ruach Qodesh”. “Ruach” translates as “wind”, and “Qodesh” is “sacred, holy”, so “Ruach Qodesh” is the Holy Wind. Moving in the direction of the Holy Wind, one is moving in the will of God. Can anything stand against the movement of the Holy Wind when it is the power of God Himself? Therefore, Moses prayed like this: “Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.” And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Then he said to Him, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.” (Exodus 33:13-16). Moses asked for the way of God to be revealed to him in order to know Him. Only in the knowledge of God's will does God Himself become known, since His will determines His character. Is this not similar to how we get to know a person, according to the ways of their heart? That is, according to the person’s actions, according to their will, how they choose, what they choose and by how that person acts. All this determines the thoughts and desires of a person, and consequently the soul, meaning the heart, of the person is manifested through his will.
The will of God also reveals God Himself to us. Why is it that when we study the Old Testament, the character of God is revealed to us through it? It is because the will of God was manifested on God’s people and we see the movement of the Holy Spirit, by Whom was the direction and movement of the people. However, when the people disobeyed and stepped away from God, they found themselves moving against the Wind, against the power of God and so began the destruction of their destinies and even the destiny of the entire people. God was angry at His people that He had led in the wilderness, because they had seen His ways but through them they did not come to know Him Himself. They were led by the Holy Wind, but they did not know His ways, that is, they did not know God's will; they did not seek and did not want to know but hardened their hearts every time God's will was proclaimed to them. This is why the Holy Spirit warns: “Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: ‘Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, and saw My works forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, “They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.” So I swore in My wrath, “They shall not enter My rest.” ” (Hebrews 3:7-11).
Moving against the Holy Wind, against an extraordinary force, is a great crushing, a disastrous destruction for the life of a person, just as any barrier is destroyed by a strong wind. Birds, catching the wind with their wings, rise upward, but if the same wings are opposed to the wind, the feathers will break. Jesus said: “…for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or resist.” (Luke 21:15) It is impossible to resist the power of the Holy Spirit, therefore victory is found only in the movement of the Holy Spirit, and the works of God are accomplished only in the movement of God's Spirit, therefore Jesus said: “He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.” (Matthew 12:30). The one who does not move according to the Holy Wind finds himself resisting Him, standing against the breath of God. Opposing the Wind of the Holy Spirit, everything he has is scattered.
Jesus also tried to explain that He could see the movement of the power of God's Spirit and was abiding in the flow of this Wind: Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. (John 5:19-20). That which God did, Jesus did, where the Wind blew,
there His Father directed Him. He was like a tender plant growing out of dry ground, bending in the wind: For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. (Isaiah 53:2).
Without feeling the movement of God's Wind, it is impossible to move in Him; without seeing God working, it is impossible to do the works of God. God once told David to only begin moving when he could see the movement of God's Wind, because that would mean he would be moving into victory in the power of God: Then the Philistines went up once again and deployed themselves in the Valley of Rephaim. Therefore David inquired of the Lord, and He said, “You shall not go up; circle around behind them, and come upon them in front of the mulberry trees. And it shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then you shall advance quickly. For then the Lord will go out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.” And David did so, as the Lord commanded him; and he drove back the Philistines from Geba as far as Gezer. (2 Samuel 5:22-25). In order to be victorious, one must always move in the Spirit of God, but in order to move in the Spirit of God, one must know His movement, His direction, that is, His will.
Even our prayers must be in accordance with the will of God, because then they have power. For example, if we pray and command Satan according to our own will, he will not obey, even when using the name of Jesus in prayer. However, "... when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then you shall advance quickly. For then the Lord will go out before you to strike the camp...", and in this case it will not matter how large and strong the opposing army is, because there is no power equal to the power of God. Most importantly, one must be in the Wind of the Holy Spirit and not against Him, that is why James said: “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” (James 4:7).
The Spirit of God cannot be involved where self-will is present. Much can be done through the efforts of one's own soul and with the help of rebellious spirits, but there will be no help from God's Angels and God's ministerial Spirits which are sent to believers. God's Angels will not obey the command of a human being acting according to his own will, according to his own pleasure, contrary to God's will: “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.” (James 4:3). God’s will is good for a person and there is no other good: “He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:8) To walk humbly before God is to live according to His will. Therefore, before one starts to pray with authority, commanding God's powers, addressing the ministering spirits and before one begins commanding Satan, one must submit to God, which means one must seek His will and act in accordance with the will God, moving according to the Holy Wind.
It is written regarding the Angels: Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation? (Hebrews 1:14). All of them are sent to those who inherit salvation, yet they are all obedient and submissive to God. Only when one has received Rhema, one can act with boldness and faith, without doubt, and then: “…whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. (John 14:13-14), “Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.” (Matthew 18:19-20). In this place it also speaks about agreement, but according to the will of God, and not agreement according to one’s own whim. "... in My name ..." - the success of all prayers is contained in this.
The Word of God, like a seed thrown into the ground, lies in the ground until the time of germination and each seed has its own time. Although it lies in the ground, it seems lifeless, but preparation for germination is already taking place within it, invisible to the human eye. The sower only believes that the seed will sprout, and when the time comes, it bears fruit through the process of fulfilment. Each word has its own time of fulfilment, and it does not depend on correctly spoken prayers, for prayer is not an incantation or a spell, the time of fulfilment depends only on the will of God.
Could we say that Abraham and Sarah were not praying correctly all those years? Was God waiting for them to say their prayer correctly so that the promise could be fulfilled? Or did they have such poor faith that the promise was delayed which is why they received a son in old age? Even if their prayers were prayers of faith, commanding God's powers to bring God's promises to fulfilment, they would still not have received anything until the specified time of fulfilment. Isaac was born on time, and this time was not determined by Abraham or Sarah, but by God. Rather than obeying the physical laws of nature, even the physical bodies of Sarah and Abraham obeyed the will of God.
Taking another example, could we say that Joseph prayed incorrectly in Egypt which meant that he spent years in slavery, then with Potiphar, then in prison? Alas, the timing of the fulfilment of God's promise did not depend on him either: “For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.” (Hebrews 10:36).
Neither could David bring the days of his accession to the throne any closer, nor could any of the prophets demand their promises. Only obedience to the will of God, gratitude to Him for everything and worship bring the time of fulfilment closer, the time of germination of the seed. This is the faith of the saints, complete trust in God's faithfulness. Patience in anticipation of the Holy Wind is the fulfilment of the will of God.
Pastor Taysa Kotov
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