“He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you.” (John 16:14)
Jesus says, “But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. When he (The Holy Spirit) comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: about sin, because people do not believe in me; about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.” (John 16:8-11) The Holy Spirit is the invisible working hands of God and The Holy Spirit glorify the Name of God. The Holy Spirit is also called the Spirit of Truth. The Holy Spirit come to guide the believers into all truth but the Holy Spirit will not speak on his own. He will speak only what he hears from God and The Holy Spirit will brings glory to the Name of God by making Him known to us. (John 14:6, 14:26, 16:13, 17:4-5)
The Holy Spirit - The Advocator, intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. (John 14:26; 16:9) The Holy Spirit teaches the believers all things and remind them everything of what Jesus had said. The Holy Spirit is a helper in our work of the harvest field. He (The Holy Spirit) convicts the world of sin, so that others may believe in the Lord Jesus. (John 10:16)
As believers in Christ, we were marked in Him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit unto the day of Salvation. (Ephesians 1:13, 4:30) God is a Spirit; The Holy Spirit is poured out of God. It is biblical that we do not pray to the Holy Spirit but we can talk to the Holy Spirit because he is the third person of the Holy Trinity. Expressive word like “Come Holy Spirit, fall afresh on me” or “Holy Spirit, thou art welcome in this place” is a form of acknowledgment that the presence of The Holy Spirit of God is working in our midst. (Genesis 6:6, 8:21; Isaiah 63:11; John 4:24; Acts 13:2; Ephesians 4:30; Revelation 4:2)
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off. (Acts 13:2) Convicted by the Holy Spirit, then Peter said, "Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? (Acts 5:3) And God had also spoke to Peter in a vision. He convicted Peter through the conviction of The Holy Spirit in Acts 10:19 and also of Philips who saw the angel of the Lord. With the conviction of The Holy Spirit, lead him to stay close near to the Chariot (Acts 6:29). And this is also true of Agabus who stood up and through the conviction of the Holy Spirit, predicted that a severe famine would spread over the entire Roman world. (Acts 17:28, 21:10-11)
But Paul however experienced The Lord on the way to Damascus and so he said in 2 Cor 3:17, "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." After they (the Eunuch and Philips) have come out of the water, the Spirit of The Lord took Philips away. (Acts 8:39; 16:7) Ananias recognize it was The Lord who spoke to him in a vision, said to Saul, "Brother Saul, the Lord—Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here—has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.", and after he had placed his hands onto Saul, Saul received the Holy Spirit and was filled with the Holy Spirit. (Acts 9:17)
Now Paul, filled with The Holy Spirit of God said, "And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there. I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me.” (Acts 20:22) In Athens, apostle Paul spoke in the meeting of the Areopagus and said, from one man God made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ (Acts 17:26-28)
Today, God has given us His Holy Spirit. (Acts 2:17) The Holy Spirit works in and through the people of God, but men is not God that they should know the things of God. The bible says, the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. The Spirit of God knows the thoughts of man but no one knows the thoughts of God except that God choose to reveal it to us by His Spirit. (Amos 3:7; John 17:4-5; 1 Corinthians 2:9-11; Ephesians 3:4-6; Romans 8:26-28)
When Jesus sent out the seventy-two, he said to them, “I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.” And before His ascension, He (Jesus) instructed the disciples to wait for power from above (The Holy Ghost) when the Spirit comes on them and there they will be the Lord’s witness in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
Today, without the power of The Holy Ghost, Christians would be powerless against the powers of the principalities of darkness in the spiritual world. (John 16:11; Acts 10:38; 1 John 2:20) Paul say, "we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us." So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. Hence we are but God's vessels, in the Lord's use. (Matthew 28:18-22; Luke 10:19; Acts 1:8-9; 1 Corinthians 3: 5-7, 2 Corinthians 4:7-8)
