The Holy Spirit – Your Grasp Rebuilder

This previous spring my husband took on a rebuilding challenge of beautifying our small patio. The floor space round our tree was weirdly slanted and we needed to stage it as much as maximize its floor potential. It was a DIY reworking and landscaping challenge: constructing a retaining wall, laying stone pavers, and placing in new grass and crops. Being resourceful, he used leftover beams from our previous fence, and picked up free stones and slates given away by way of craigslist. It was a easy challenge however he needed to do it with the smart counsel of my father, a really skilled do-it-yourself sort of man. My dad not solely guided him, however gave him specialised instruments to assist within the rebuilding challenge. My dad’s assist and experience made the renovation simpler, which introduced an assurance that the patio was properly constructed. 

This backyard patio challenge jogs my memory how we view our lives as a relentless renovation challenge! We see issues in ourselves that should be made higher, rebuilt, beautified, so we might be maximized for God’s objective, and we’d like professional recommendation on tips on how to.

Once we are reborn in Christ, we obtain His Spirit, which makes us proper with God, but typically we really feel nice problem getting our lives collectively, being determined to get to the true us in Christ. We might really feel helpless, not figuring out the place to begin regardless that we’re Christians, so we have a tendency to alter ourselves on our personal power. The Good Information is that we’ve got The Helper, The Holy Spirit who is shipped to us to assist with our private restoration and achievement no matter our previous. 

So who’s the Holy Spirit and the way can He assist us in rebuilding the true you, your soul- your thoughts, will and feelings? 

The guide of Nehemiah will present you an image of the Holy Spirit and the way He desires to assist us; the wall-rebuilding course of described is likened to the best way God desires to revive our souls. We discover right here an account on how God gave a second likelihood to the folks of Israel by bringing them again to Jerusalem from Babylonian exile after disobeying Him repeatedly. The primary group that returned have been in a position to rebuild the temple, however the protecting metropolis partitions remained in ruins making them prone to conquering enemies. Nehemiah, a pacesetter and kinsman having heard of such a tragic property of his homeland returns to start and full the method of rebuilding of the partitions of Jerusalem. The temple of Jerusalem represents our spirit that has been made new in Christ. The partitions symbolize our soul, and Nehemiah represents the Holy Spirit who is shipped to us by King Jesus to work on our life rebuilding course of. 

Nehemiah’s identify in Hebrew is derived from nacham, “to breath strongly, to pity, to console” and from yah, which is the identify of the Lord. So his identify means “The Lord who comforts or brings comfort”. His identify is synonymous with the Holy Spirit as our comforter!!!

1. The Holy Spirit helps guard our thoughts.

With a view to expertise development and alter, we should change our thought life. When confronted with the enemy, Nehemiah prayed and posted a guard day and evening to fulfill this menace (Nehemiah 4:9). Proverbs 4:23 (NCV) says “Watch out what you assume, as a result of your ideas run your life.”  

The Holy Spirit helps us to watch out and filter adverse ideas and as a substitute He provides us peace that guards our hearts and minds in Christ. He additionally brings to remembrance the Phrase of God and reminds us who we’re in Christ!

His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you reside in Christ Jesus. – Philippians 4:7b

However the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will ship in My identify, He’ll educate you all issues, and produce to your remembrance all issues that I stated to you. Peace I depart with you, My peace I give to you; not because the world provides do I give to you. Let not your coronary heart agonize, neither let or not it’s afraid. – John 14:26,27

2. The Holy Spirit helps us pray.

However when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites heard that the work was going forward and that the gaps within the wall of Jerusalem have been being repaired, they have been livid. All of them made plans to come back and struggle in opposition to Jerusalem and throw us into confusion.However we prayed to our God and guarded the town day and evening to guard ourselves. – Nehemiah 4:7-9

Nehemiah all the time responded in prayer! By means of the 13 chapters, we depend about seventeen occasions he prayed as a a response to difficult circumstances, assaults of the enemy, and he additionally inspired everybody to do the identical. 

In the identical method, we should go to God in prayer so as to see our minds being renovated. And although it is likely to be troublesome typically to wish when in a adverse frame of mind, Jesus sees our first step in calling out to him in humility and sends you the Holy Spirit to help you as you pray. He hears and cares for you! Simply as Nehemiah got here to the folks of Jerusalem after they have been weak, and in misery, so the Holy Spirit will make it easier to in your weak point and every day issues whenever you have no idea tips on how to pray. You might be uncooked trustworthy with the Lord and inform him what you are worried about after which pray in your understanding asking God for what you want. However if you happen to have no idea what to wish for even, and really feel caught, the Holy Spirit provides you with phrases to say whenever you pray within the Spirit. Jude 20 says that you would be able to be “constructing yourselves up in your most holy religion and praying within the Holy Spirit”

And in the identical manner– by our religion – the Holy Spirit helps us with our every day issues and in our praying. For we don’t even know what we must always pray for nor tips on how to pray as we must always, however the Holy Spirit prays for us with such feeling that it can’t be expressed in phrases. – Romans 8:26

3. The Holy Spirit will encourage and make it easier to in weak point, and arms us for the battle with the Phrase.

So I positioned armed guards behind the bottom elements of the wall within the uncovered areas. I stationed the folks to face guard by households, armed with swords, spears, and bows….All of the builders had a sword belted to their facet. – Nehemiah 4:13,18

As Nehemiah superior the development work, they obtained escalating threats deterring them from ending the wall. Nehemiah is such an exquisite image of the Holy Spirit as he inspired folks pointing again to God who provides braveness and energy. He says “Our God will struggle for us” (Nehemiah 4:21). 

He additionally took place within the elements of the wall the place they have been most weak, after which stationed the folks on the uncovered areas of the wall with their swords. When Devil desires to assault us in areas that also should be restored, you possibly can welcome the Holy Spirit to defend you, whereas standing agency in religion.

Nehemiah additionally inspired them to be armed with defensive weapons whereas guarding their areas. We’ve the Sword of the Spirit (Ephesians 6:17) that we will additionally use to withstand the non secular enemy who involves assault our minds. We will push again His lies by talking God’s phrase in response. If a harmful thought comes, you possibly can declare a promise of God that cancels the lies – when you say it out loud, as a result of the Phrase of God resides and is Spirit (John 6:63), the enemy might want to flee from you. The ability of God is launched, and the enemy can’t stand being the place His energy and His Phrase is spoken out.