Question 36
What do we believe about the Holy Spirit?
John 14:16–17
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.
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
Prayer
We thank you heavenly Father for all that you have given to us through your Holy Spirit. We thank you that each of us who has come to put our trust in Jesus Christ has the Spirit in us and living with us. We pray that he may show Christ to us and make us more like Christ from day to day. We ask these things for the glory of your great name. Amen.
Derived and adapted from John Stott’s prayer at the end of his sermon “The Work of the Spirit” on John 16:5–15, recorded 18th August 2002, available from www.allsouls.org.
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