Hello, and welcome to Enbolden, living a bold Christian life. I'm Chris Shutter, an ordinary Christian living with and learning about an extraordinary God. Thank you for joining me on spending 30 days of praising God. My praise of us today comes from Philippians 2, 13.
For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. How glorious would it have been to live when Jesus was physically here on earth to sit at the Sermon on the mountain, hear his words directly from his mouth, to be in a busy marketplace and accidentally bump into him, turning to see directly into his face? Isn't it amazing how he spent so little time here with us yet the impact has been so astounding that even our days are marked by when he arrived? And when he ascended, the gift he left behind is something for which we can never be thankful enough.
John 14, 15 to 17 has him saying, If you love me, keep my commands, and I will ask the Father and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever, the Spirit of Truth. The world cannot accept him because it neither sees him or knows him, but you know him, or he lives with you and will be in you. When you study the Bible, you see how Jesus and the Holy Spirit actually touched our lives before the time we say God became fully human. Their presence has woven throughout the Old Testament, so it's not as though they were created suddenly.
God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit all spoke the world into creation and have placed their holy hands under lives throughout eternity. So today, specifically though, I praise God for the gift of the Holy Spirit and for being our constant intercessor, our inner voice, our God-whisperer. It is the Holy Spirit that helps us to pray when we don't know what to pray, because the situation has gotten so dire. It is the Holy Spirit who whispers to us to get up and do God's work.
It is the Holy Spirit who partners with us when we need rescue. Romans 826 says, In the same way the Spirit helps in our weakness, we do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. I shared with my BSGs in the past that when I'm really stressed or worried, I have a difficult time praying. My mind gets so jumbled and full of negative thoughts that I can't seem to quiet it down.
And one of my BSGs responded saying, I've just cried out, help me when I don't know what to say. And that's great advice. I mean, it says it right there in Romans 8. The Holy Spirit will help us pray.
He will give us the words to speak to God. Friends, God is so beautiful and loving that He didn't leave us orphans. He didn't leave us grieving because He left us with a piece of Him inside of us. I once heard a Christian teacher say, we don't need to attain patience, kindness, love, etc.
It's because we already have all those imputed through the Holy Spirit that lives in us because we believe. We just need to ask the Holy Spirit to help us release those gifts, to help us pray the words to fight back against the devil, and to whisper to us, help us love this person in front of us right now. God has given us access to this awesome power. And once we do that, we should pray to unleash it with all its glorious might.
Have an awesome day.