Teacher

Luke 12:¹² “for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.” (NIV)

The key to life with God is The Holy Spirit. The first thing The Holy Spirit does for you is He Connects You To God’s Presence Forever. The Second thing The Holy Spirit does for you is He Teaches You How To Know God. Jesus gave you The Holy Spirit to teach you how to know God. John 14:^25-26 “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.” (NIV). The job of The Holy Spirit is to teach you. The Holy Spirit will teach you things you do not know about your destiny. There were things I did not know about my destiny that the Holy Spirit taught me.

The Holy Spirit is to teach us even more than Pastors, Authors, Teachers, Evangelists, and Apostles can teach us. After you hear a sermon in church or you listen to a podcast, The Holy Spirit takes that Word further in your time alone with Him. Let’s say your Pastor teaches you X in church. By the time The Holy Spirit expands on it, it will be X³. So, you should take the Word, and sit down with The Holy Spirit. I told you how I was at a conference, and the man of God was speaking about advocacy. As I was thinking through it, The Holy Spirit was showing me scriptures. Even things the man did not say.

1 Corinthians 2:^11-12 “For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.” (NIV). It actually takes God to know God. And this is the reason we sometimes struggle with reading and understanding the Bible. Listen, it does not take your brain or your intelligence to know God. It takes God to know God.

The Holy Spirit reveals God to us in three major ways. Firstly, He reveals God to us through the Scriptures. When you sit with God’s Word, The Holy Spirit opens your understanding. Secondly, The Holy Spirit reveals God to us through Prayer. When you take the Word and you are brooding over it in prayer and suddenly, light shines in your heart. The third way is in Community. When you join a life group, a small group, or friendships. Somebody says something and you know The Holy Spirit has just spoken to you. That is how He reveals God.

Prayer: Holy Spirit, teach me about my Father, reveal His heart to me, in Jesus Name. Amen!