Friendship with the Holy Spirit

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' “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 nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. '

John 14:15-18

' “All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. '

John 14:25-26

  • The Holy Spirit is not a ________________ but a ________________.

 

  • The apostle John uses the word __________________ 5x to name the Holy Spirit and His relational nature.

 

  • Para-kaleo means __ __________ _______________

 

Other names of the Holy Spirit:

  • Helper
  • Counselor
  • Comforter
  • Advocate

 

“The Spirit is not like some divine milkman who leaves the gift of life on our doorsteps only to move on. In giving us life, He comes in to be with us and to remain with us. Having once given life He does not just move on, He stays to make that life blossom and grow. The life He gives us is a life of fellowship with the Father and the Son.”

- Michael Reeves, Delighting in the Trinity

 

PRACTICAL WAYS TO GROW IN THIS FRIENDSHIP:

  1. _________________ to the Holy Spirit by name
  2. Practice the posture of ________________
  3. Trust that when you don’t have words, He does

 

This Week's Memory Verse:

“In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.”

Romans 8:26