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The Holy Spirit

Introduction

The Holy Spirit in the New Testament, the third person of the Trinity. The Holy Spirit is a “He” not a “It”; He is the Holy Spirit of God.

The Holy Spirit has a personality:

He has a mind

And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. ( Romans 8:27)

 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. ( Romans 8:22)

 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, awaiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. ( Romans 8:23 )

The Holy Spirit that is in every believer continually helps in our weakness that may include physical, emotional, and spiritual disability. There have been times in my life I would be praying , but I would just run out of things to pray for, then the Holy Spirit would intercede. One evidence of their weakness is the fact that believers do not know what they ought to pray (lit., “what we should pray as it is necessary”). In their weakness both the content and the manner of proper prayer eludes them, but the Spirit Himself comes to their rescue and intercedes (pres. tense, “keeps on interceding”) for us with groans that words cannot express. Natural Creation groans (Rom. 8:22) and believers groan (v. 23), and so does the Holy Spirit.

2. He searches out the human mind

But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. ( 1 Corinthians 2:11)