- [Narrator] Welcome to a gracedigital presentation.
In this video, we shall be discussing,
who is the Holy Spirit is to you.
If there is one companion
that we should not even attempt to live without,
it is definitely the Holy Spirit.
Because all that we could ever need,
the Father has provided for us in His precious Spirit
and He is always available
for a personal relationship with each one of us,
if we let Him into our hearts.
John 14 AMP which says,
"I assure you and most solemnly say to you,
anyone who believes in me as Savior
will also do the things that I do.
And he will do even greater things than these
in extent and outreach, because I am going to the Father
and I will do whatever you ask in My name
as My representative.
This I will do,
so that the Father may be glorified
and celebrated in the Son.
If you ask Me anything in My name,
as My representative I will do it.
And I will ask the Father
and He will give you another Helper, Comforter, Advocate,
Intercessor, Counselor, Strengthener,
Standby to be with you forever."
From these verses it is obvious,
that the Holy Spirit has been assigned
for specific assignments in our lives.
Number one, our Comfort,
life can put a lot of strain on us:
losses, disappointments and regrets are all around us.
This is why many get emotional
and fly off the handle for no seen reason.
While some just fold up and quit on life with suicide.
Hebrews 12:2 AMP says,
"The Holy Spirit comforts us
and assures us that we will be fine at the end.
Looking away from all that will distract us
and focusing our eyes on Jesus
who is the Author and Perfecter of faith.
The first incentive for our belief
and the One who brings our faith to maturity,
who for the joy of accomplishing the goal set before Him
endured the cross disregarding the shame
and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Revealing His deity, His authority
and the completion of His work."
No man can truly endure the rigors
that comes from the race of life,
without some form of comforting by the Holy Spirit.
This comforting brings strength to us.
And so that we can endure to the end, just like Jesus.
Luke 22:43-44 AMP says,
"Now, an angel appeared to Him from heaven strengthening Him
and being in agony, deeply distressed and anguished
almost to the point of death.
He prayed more intently
and His sweat became like drops of blood
falling down on the ground."
Even though Abraham was and of faith,
yet he experienced many difficulties while waiting on God.
However, see what God said concerning Abraham
in Isaiah 51:1-5 AMP,
"Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness
right standing with God, who seek an inquire of the Lord.
Look to the rock from which you were cut
and to the excavation of the quarry from which you were dug.
Look to Abraham your father,
and to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain.
For I called him when he was but one,
then I blessed him and made him many.
For the Lord will comfort Zion in her captivity,
He will comfort all her ruins,
and He will make her wilderness like Eden
and her desert like the garden of the Lord.
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
thanksgiving in the voice of a melody.
'Listen carefully to Me,' says the Lord,
'Oh My people and hear Me, oh My nation.
For a divine law will go forth from Me
and I will quickly establish My justice
as a light to the people.
My righteousness justice is near,
My salvation has gone forth
and My arms will judge the peoples,
the islands and the coast lands will wait for Me.
And they will wait with hope
and confident expectation for My arm.'"
God was the source of His inner strength.
Number two advocate,
mistakes are bound to happen as we run our race.
But so that we do not remain condemned or live in guilt,
when we make mistakes we need an impartial advocate.
The devil loves the job of picking holes
and condemning us before God and men, when we falter.
But praise the Lord, we have a righteous advocate
who will always stand firm to defend us.
John 14:30 AMP says, "I will not speak with you much longer
for the ruler of the world Satan is coming.
And he has no claim on Me, no power over Me,
nor anything that he can use against Me."
In the case of the children of Israel,
God said He had heard their cry
but for His people to be delivered,
He would have to send someone to speak for them.
Job 33:20-26, "So that their body finds food repulsive
and their soul loathes the choicest meal,
their flesh waste away to nothing in their bones
once hidden now stick out.
And they draw near to the pit
in their life to the messengers of death.
Yet, if there is an angel at their side a messenger,
one out of a thousand sent to tell them how to be upright.
He is gracious to that person and says to God,
'Spare them from going down to the pit,
I have found a ransom for them.
Let their flesh be renewed like a child's,
let them be restored as in the days of their youth.'
Then that person can pray to God and find favor with Him.
They will see God's face and shout for joy.
He will restore them the full wellbeing."
Back then, it was Moses God sent.
But us in the New Testament,
the Holy Spirit is our major mediator.
Exodus 3:1-10 AMP says,
"Now, Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro,
Reuel, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian.
And he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness
and came to Horeb, Sinai, the mountain of God.
The angel of the Lord appeared to him
in a blazing flame of fire from the midst of a bush.
And he looked, and behold the bush was on fire
yet it was not consumed.
So Moses said, 'I must turn away from the flock
and this great sight, why the bush is not burned up.'
When the Lord saw
that he turned away from the flock to look,
God called to him from the midst of the bush and said,
'Moses, Moses.'
And he said, 'Here I am.'
Then God said, 'Do not come near,
take your sandals off your feet out of respect
because the place on which you are standing is holy ground.'
Then he said, 'I am the God of your father
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'
Then Moses hid his face
because he was afraid to look at God.
Then the Lord said,
'I have in fact seen the affliction suffering,
desolation of my people who are in Egypt
and have heard their cry
because of their taskmasters oppressors
for I know their pain and suffering.
So I have come down to rescue them
from the hand power of the Egyptians
and to bring them up from that land
to a land that is good and spacious.
To a land flowing with milk and honey a land of plenty.
To the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite,
the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Now, behold the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me
and I have also seen the Egyptians oppress them.
Therefore, come now, and I will send you to Pharaoh
and then bring My people,
the children of Israel out of Egypt.'"
Intercessor, an intercessor is like a burden bearer
that makes a plea or prays on our behalf.
Life's journey will require lots of spiritual strength
and interventions from God.
And many times we may not even pray the right prayers
because of lack of understanding of what we are up against
or we're even too weak to pray.
In this case, we need someone that ends the situation
and the kind of prayers we need to pray,
or one that will pray on our behalf when we are weak.
This is where the Holy Spirit comes in.
The Bible speaking in Romans 8:26-28 AMP said,
"In the same way the Spirit comes to us
and helps us in our weakness,
we do not what prayer to offer
or how to offer it as we should.
But the Spirit Himself knows our need
and at the right time, intercedes on our behalf,
with sighs and groanings too deep for words.
And He who searches the hearts,
knows what the mind of the Spirit is.
Because the Spirit intercedes before God,
on behalf of God's people in accordance with God's will.
And we know with great confidence
that God who is deeply concerned about us,
causes all things to work together as a plan for good
for those who love God.
To those who are called according to His plan and purpose."
Counselor, the Holy Spirit tells us what to do,
when we don't know what to do.
He shows us how to do it because many times,
we may not know the techniques we need to achieve our goals.
He is after all the Spirit of wisdom,
He tells us when to do something and what needs to be done.
Because there specific time to do certain things,
especially at sensitive times and season.
Remember John 14:26,
says that the Holy Spirit shall teach us all things.
Let's see how this works by reading Exodus, 14:13-30 AMP,
"Then Moses said to the people, 'Do not be a afraid,
take your stand, be firm and confident and undismayed
and see the salvation of the Lord
which He will accomplish for you today.
For those Egyptians whom you have seen today
you will never see again.
The Lord will fight for you
while you only need to keep silent and remain calm.'
The Lord said to Moses, 'Why do you cry to Me?
Tell the sons of Israel to move forward toward the sea.
As for you, lift up your stuff
and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it.
So that the sons of Israel
may go through the middle of the sea on dry land.
As for Me hear this,
I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians
and they will go into the sea after are them.
And I will be glorified
and honored through Pharaoh in all his army
and his war chariots and his horsemen.
And the Egyptians shall know without any doubt
and acknowledge that I am the Lord.
When I am glorified and honored through Pharaoh
through his war chariots and his charioteers.'
The angel of God,
who had been going in front of the camp Israel
moved and went behind them.
The pillar of the cloud,
moved from in front and stood behind them.
So it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel.
It was a cloud along with darkness
even by day to the Egyptians
and it gave light by night to the Israelites.
So one army did not come near the other all night.
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea
and the Lord swept the sea back by a strong east wind,
all that night and turned the sea bed into dry land.
And the waters were divided.
The Israelites went into the middle of the sea on dry land.
And the waters formed a wall to them,
on the right hand and on their left.
Then the Egyptians pursued them into the middle of the sea,
even all Pharaoh's horses
his war chariots and his charioteers.
So it happened at the early morning watch before dawn,
that the Lord looked down on the army of the Egyptians
through the pillar of fire and cloud
and put them in a state of confusion.
He made their chariot wheels hard to turn
and the chariots difficult to drive.
So the Egyptians said, 'Let us flee from Israel
for the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians.'
Then the Lord said to Moses,
'Stretch out your hand over the sea
so that the waters may come back over the Egyptians,
on their war chariots and on their charioteers.'
So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea
and the sea returned to its normal flow at sunrise
and the Egyptians retreated right into it,
being met by the returning water.
So the Lord over through the Egyptians
and tossed them into the midst of the sea.
The water returned and cover the chariots
and the charioteers, and all the army of Pharaoh
that had gone into the sea after them.
Not even one of them survived.
But the Israelites walked on dry land
in the middle of the sea,
and the waters formed a wall to them on their right hand
and on their left."
The Lord saved Israel that day
from the hand of the Egyptians,
and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the seashore.
That was God's spirit at work,
making a way where there is no way.
He counseled Moses on what to do and when to do it.
So as to help the Israelites escape death
and cross the red sea to their freedom.
Our strength, destiny in its entirety requires strength.
If a man gets stressed, drained, exhausted,
he will naturally want to throw in the towel.
But the Holy Spirit is famous
for supplying strength to the weary.
Let us pray.
Thank you Precious Holy Spirit for being Everything to me.
Thank you for comfort, strength
and your grace at work in me.
You are invisible, yet I see You work in my life daily.
In the name of Jesus, I will keep drawing closer to You
and to Your will for my life, amen.