And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— (John
The gift of
the Holy Spirit was due to the intercession of our Lord, and the Apostle Peter
refers to it when he says: "Having received of the Father the promise of
the Holy Spirit" (Acts
"I
will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you." Christ had been
speaking of sending another; now He says, I am coming Myself, so that we learn
that He is so indissolubly One with the Holy Spirit, Whom He sends, that the
coming of the Spirit is His own coming. Do not look for the Spirit apart from
Jesus. As the sun comes in the light, so does Jesus come in the Spirit. When we
are filled with the Spirit, we shall not think of Him, but of Jesus to whom He
bears witness, and when our hearts are taken up with the Lord, we may know that
we have received Him, who is the Gift of gifts.
Open your
whole nature to the entrance of the Holy Spirit. Unlock every door; open every
curtain on every window, so that entering He may fill you with the glorious indwelling
of the Father and the Son. "I will prepare a "mansion," Jesus
said; and, "We will make the holy soul our mansion."
"'He
shall teach you all things." His lesson book is the life and words of our
blessed Lord. We may think that we are fully informed of all that He has said,
but as we study the Bible, the Holy Spirit brings us back to them again and
again, always revealing new light, and unthought of depths. Never let a day
pass without reading some of the words of Jesus under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
PRAYER
You have not
left us comfortless, heavenly Father. May life be renewed in its springs, by
the gracious operation of Your Holy Spirit dwelling within us, and leading us
from grace to grace. I ask it in your Sons name, Amen.
God's
Daily Promise
Promise #307:
I have chosen you to be My own treasured possession.
Deuteronomy 7:6 (WEB)
For you are a holy people to
Yahweh your God:
Yahweh your God has chosen
you to be a people for his own possession,
above all peoples who are on
the face of the earth.
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