Information Related to "The Holy Spirit: God's Promise of His Divine Help"
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A cornerstone of the New Covenant is God's promise to "put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts" (Jeremiah 31:33). In Ezekiel 36:26-27 He tells us how He will accomplish this: "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws" (NIV).
We need God's help, through His Spirit, to obey Him from the heart and bring our thoughts, attitudes and actions in line with His. We must allow His Spirit to become the guiding force in our lives so that we might have this "new heart."
To grasp how God's Spirit works within us, we must understand what God's Spirit is.
The Holy Spirit is not a separate "person" forming part of a "Holy Trinity." There simply is no biblical evidence to support the common belief that the Holy Spirit is a separate person (for biblical proof, request or download our free booklet Who Is God?). In Scripture the Holy Spirit instead is described most often as the power of God at work in our lives to lead us (see Romans 8:14).
Divine help through God's Spirit
How does God's Spirit lead us? Let's consider a few ways.
The Holy Spirit keeps us in contact with God's mind. God's Spirit works with our mind. The apostle John describes it this way: "Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit [which] He has given us" (1 John 3:24). Through God's Spirit, which He gives us, we can be influenced by God for the good. This is in stark contrast to the world around us and our own nature, which influence us toward evil.
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