Jesus Christ came to save us from our sin, and then He sent the holy Spirit to give us power over our sin. We were never meant to go it alone, but to gain the necessary help from the Helper sent from Heaven, the Holy Spirit.
You’ll never reach your potential on your own. Jesus promised us, “And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor—Counselor, Strengthener, Standby), to be with you forever—the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive [and take to its heart] because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He (the Holy Spirit) remains with you continually and will be in you.” (John 14:16-17 AMP).
We need to rightly interpret this title of “Helper” so that we would understand the type of help He would bring us. It is not like an earthly helper, someone who takes care of the mundane so we can focus on greater things. But rather it is the heavenly Helper who was sent to help us, in the mundane and in the spectacular, that we would become that man or woman whom God has ordained for us to become.
Jesus had to be raised up before the Holy Spirit could be poured down on you. Jesus said, “Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you” (John 16:7 NKJV).
The Helper, the Holy Spirit, can help bring us comfort in our anxieties and our suffering. We are not promised a life without trouble, but Jesus did promise He would give us a Comforter to help us in all that we are going through. We are not alone.
The future hope of heaven comforts you in the troubles of the day. Jesus taught, “But I will send you the Comforter—the Holy Spirit…” (John 15:26 TLB).
The Helper, the Holy Spirit, can help us with counsel on what we should do and where we should go. Our Counselor is there for us in the life-changing moments and also in every detail in between. He is there for the sacred and the secular alike, as to the Holy Spirit, all of our life is meant to be sacred unto God.
If you don’t seek counsel, then you won’t get counsel. “Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the way, walk in it…’” (Isaiah 30:21 NKJV).
The Helper, the Holy Spirit, can help us have more strength and courage to carry on and to overcome. There is no obstacle before us that is greater than the Spirit of God, for in Him is all the power of heaven. We are not alone.
So long as your focus is on what you can do, the Lord won’t help you. “Then he [the angel] told me, ‘This is the message from the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘You will not succeed by your own strength or by your own power. The power will come from my Spirit,’ says the Lord of heaven’s armies’” (Zechariah 4:6 ICB).
The Helper, the Holy Spirit, can help us by convicting us of where we are wrong and then help us to change and do what is right. Every conviction is meant to be the inspiration for a course correction that your life would be pointed directly at God.
The Holy Spirit convicts you of sin and then helps you to overcome it. “When the Helper [the Holy Spirit] comes, He will show the world the truth about sin. He will show the world about being right with God. And He will show the world what it is to be guilty” (John 16:8 NLV).
The Helper, the Holy Spirit, can help teach us the deeper things in the Word and help us to see the truth of heaven with greater clarity. We cannot interpret spiritual truths apart from our spiritual Teacher, who alone can reveal what is hidden.
If you want to teach about being Spirit-led, then you must be Spirit-led in you’re teaching. “We don’t speak about these things with words taught us by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, as we explain spiritual things to spiritual people.” (1 Corinthians 2:13 ISV).
The Helper, the Holy Spirit, can give us the words that we should speak and help us in how we would deliver them. If you want to preach a powerful message, let the Holy Spirit preach through you. If you want to write a powerful message, then just be the pen.
It’s impossible to have writer’s block so long as you’re inspired by the Holy Spirit. Jesus taught us, “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” (John 14:26 NKJV).
The Helper, the Holy Spirit, can help us to be new creations in Christ, set apart from the things of this world, and given over to the purposes of heaven. The Helper’s job will never end with us, and that is why Jesus promised we would have the Holy Spirit with us forever.
The greatest blessings from God are the ones that last forever. Jesus promised, “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper [the Holy Spirit], so that He may be with you forever” (John 14:16 NASB).
Child of God, we have the Helper, the Holy Spirit, with us. We need to ask for His help, and then be willing to let Him. In everything before you, every decision you have, every anxious thought that is in your head, every trial you are going through, ask the Holy Spirit to help you, let Him, and then He will.
How far you go in your faith never depends on your strength but on your willingness to let the Lord help you. Jesus promised us, “…the Father…will give you another Helper [the Holy Spirit]…to be with you forever…” (John 14:16 AMP).
Blessings to you always,
Paul Balius
Powerful
I pray for that one person that would read this and be inspired to let the Holy Spirit reign in their life!
Truth after truth is in this posting on a subject that should be dear to all of our hearts. Once you admit to God that you need Him everything will change, as pointed out in the first paragraph of this posting. ‘We were never meant to go it alone’ this truth will be dear to us once we experience the helper as manifested through the Holy Spirit.
When first reading John 14 years ago I thought that He the Spirit of Truth helped only with spiritual matters, that is to say He would take no interest in your nonspiritual or practical matters of doing your job well for instance.
Nothing could have been further from the truth and although I have some testimony of my own on the subject, two acquaintances of mine and their experiences speak well to the subject I feel.
Both are middle aged married men, both have been the victims of verifiable church hurt. This was not in any way sexual abuse, but rather of a controlling and manipulating nature in both cases. One has never allowed God to heal the wrongs against him nor forgiven the offending church leader. This man I will call Dave has worked many years proficiently as an HVAC (Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning technician) his employer requires him to be ticketed with certain proof papers of understanding the trade. Advice has been given to him to ask God to help him pass the exams, he scoffs and replies get real! 4 years of annually failing the exams by 1 or 2% has been Dave’s testimony.
My other acquaintance I will call Aaron works in a very modern wood processing plant and two years ago wrote a 3.5-hour exam to qualify for entry into an open position of great complexity and importance. Aaron failed two years ago, yet right after that Aaron started on a path to recovery from bitterness and blaming others. A month ago 16 people wrote the exam. 11 failed, 5 passed, Aaron was 2nd in the class of the 5 passing.
I recently met and asked Aaron how such a transformation materialized? this was his reply, he held up the thick manuals and proclaimed “God you invented these machines, for every invention of man comes from you, therefore I ask for your help and pass or fail I surrender myself to you and your will and plans for me.
What a mighty God we serve!
I like this quote from A.W. Tozer, “It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular; it is why he does it.” God doesn’t just want part-time saints, but full-time workers who lean on Him in everything they are doing. I have been so blessed by the leading of the Lord in my career and with what I do at my work. I am convicted to be godly even in what can sometimes seem like a godless world.