EVANGELICAL CHURCH WINNING ALL Food for the Day - 2023 SUNDAY, 6 AUGUST 2023 TEXT:JOHN 14:22-31 TOPIC: THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

EVANGELICAL CHURCH WINNING ALL

Food for the Day - 2023

SUNDAY, 6 AUGUST 2023

TEXT:JOHN 14:22-31

TOPIC: THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

JOHN 14 : 22 - 31 NIV

22:Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”

23:Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.

24:Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

25:“All this I have spoken while still with you.

26: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.

27:Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

28:“You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

29:I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.

30:I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me,

31:but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me. “Come now; let us leave.

THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Christians need to live in constant obedience to the Lord because He has the best plans for them. 

Because the word of God is the mind of God revealed, He expects us to do the things written in it so that we can accomplish His purposes on earth. 

The Holy Spirit is always present to reveal the things that we do not understand because He is our teacher, guide and counselor.

Obeying Him will also give us the needed peace which is entirely different from the peace of the world. 

We must therefore depend on His Spirit as we live in this world that is controlled by the forces of darkness.

*QUESTION: Do you depend on the Holy Spirit for the understanding of the word of God?

PRAYER:* Help me, Father, to understand that my intellect will not profit from You if I do not key into the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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