RUSSELL SANDERS
7-27-2022
JABEZ – LESSON 7
GOD’S HAND WITH YOU – PART 2
1 Chronicles 4:10 (NKJV) gives the third part of Jabez’ prayer as, “Oh, that Your hand would be with me…” (Yesterday I mistakenly said 2 Chronicles.) We spoke of our dependence on God to handle the blessing and enlargement He brings to us in response to our prayer. Today we look at how He brings that help to us.
It comes through His Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the hand of God that works in us and for us and through us. What the Father “wills” and the son “speaks,” the Holy Spirit “performs.”
Jesus called the Holy Spirit the Comforter in John 14:6 and the Spirit of Truth who will teach us all truth. The Comforter strengthens and guides us during times of trouble and in times of peace. The peace that Jesus gives us (John 14:27) is conveyed to our own spirit by Holy Spirit.
Holy Spirit also intercedes on our behalf on things we do not even know about or how to speak about. (Romans 8:26-27.) His intercession is like that of an advocate speaking or working on our behalf. He is “the hand of God with you.”
Spiritual gifts are given by God through Holy Spirit. (1 Corinthians 12:4-11.) The fruit of the Spirit grows within us and manifested through us by Holy Spirit.
It is by the Holy Spirit, our advocate, that we can have confidence in the “hand” of God. In Romans 8:28 it says, (KJV) “All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called (saved, redeemed) according to His purpose.”
Holy Spirit is the hand of God who actively works for you.
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