The Holy Spirit (cont.)
John 14:26 – “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.”
Previously, we saw that the Spirit is a person, the third person of the Trinity of God. He is real. He, as a person, has knowledge, feelings or emotions, and He has a will! And He is able to understand all that you and I go through, and all that we feel, and He is able to use you and me according to His will! He is also praying for us right along side of Jesus. He loves us and He comes to dwell in our hearts, pointing us to Jesus.
The Holy Spirit is just as omniscient as the Father and the Son, because He is God, which means He knows all. He knows all about us. His knowledge of us reaches our past, our present and our future. And the marvel of this truth is seen in the fact that the Holy Spirit is able to move in such a way as to bring about answers and help and encouragement right when we need it. How many times have we experienced someone praying or speaking things which nobody knew except God and you? One pastor said this, “I’ve received messages from the Lord through people that were personal, direct, and supernatural. God often uses His Spirit, working in and through people, to deliver a word of encouragement, confirmation, or edification straight from heaven. This is one of the many reasons I’m so thankful to serve a God who is both personal and relational.” No doubt many, if not all of us, can testify to the same thing.
I want to go back to the thought of the Holy Spirit praying for us. As we mentioned previously, in Romans 8:26 it says, “Likewise the Spirit helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” He is not just an influence who moves us to pray, but He is a person who actually prays for us!
A person by the name of Alex Seeley said, “When we don’t know how to pray — when all we can offer is a sigh, groan, or the feeling of being at the end of our rope — that is when Holy Spirit steps in and becomes like our breath when it feels like we can’t breathe…”
As our intercessor, He takes our feeble efforts of prayer and presents them before the Throne of God and makes them His prayer of a heavenly language. He becomes our advocate and mediator seeking mercy and grace and intervention on our behalf. Thank God for the Holy Spirit! He, along with the Father and the Son, is worthy to be worshipped and adored!