Notes of Faith June 24, 2026

Notes of Faith June 24, 2026

The Divine Helper

Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Romans 8:26

The Greek word Jesus used for the Holy Spirit is parakletos, a combination of para (“beside”) and kaleo (“to call”). The Holy Spirit is, therefore, called to come alongside believers to help them—“Helper” being the translation of parakletos in many modern English versions (John 14:16).

Recommended Reading:

John 14:15-16

Paul employs the image of helper when he says that the Holy Spirit “helps in our weaknesses” when it comes to prayer. When we come before God in prayer, sometimes “we do not know how to pray as we should” (NASB1995). Not so much what to pray for but how to pray at all. In such cases the Spirit “makes intercession for us” before God. That image is consistent with another rendering of parakletos—“advocate.” The Spirit helps us by representing us before the throne of God, interceding for us when we simply don’t know how to intercede ourselves.

When you want to pray but don’t know how, don’t despair. Trust that the Holy Spirit will represent your heart before the throne of God.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

Jeremy Taylor

God, the Father, has invited us into the experience of the Divine by His indwelling the believer and follower of Jesus, through His Holy Spirit!  We have what I believe to be the closeness of intimacy designed in the beginning, in the garden of Eden, where God walked with Adam and Eve in the cool of the day.  He has given us this intimacy through His will and desire for His creation…only the part created in His image…mankind. 

May we contemplate, and enjoy the glory of God that He gives to those who belong to His body, the church, relishing this intimacy with the glory of God that lives within! 

Eph 3:20-21

Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, 21 to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

Pastor Dale