Help From Within

However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak onHis own authority, but whatever He hearsHe will speak; and He will tell you things to come. — John 16:13

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. — Romans 8:14

The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. — Romans 8:16

The spirit of a man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inner depths of his heart. — Proverbs 20:27

Let’s notice some things Jesus said about the Holy Spirit in John 16:13. “... He will guide you into all truth...” He will lead you. He will guide you.

“... for He will not speak onHis own authority, but whatever He hearsHe will speak...” The Holy Spirit does speak. Whatever He hears God say, whatever He hears Jesus say, He will speak to your spirit. Where is He to speak? He is in your spirit if you are a born-again believer, and that is where He speaks. He doesn’t speak out in the air somewhere. He speaks on the inside. The Holy Spirit passes God’s message on to your spirit, either by an inward witness, by the still small voice — the voice of your conscience, or by an inward voice which is the more authoritative voice of the Holy Spirit.

“... He will tell [show] you things to come.” This does not mean that the Holy Spirit will show us about the future events as recorded in the Word of God. It really means that the Holy Spirit will show YOU things to come. For example, God will show you things that will happen in your own family, city, or nation. He may reveal the approaching death of a loved one in your family.

Kenneth Hagin wrote in a book that he knew two years in advance about the death of his father-in-law. He began to prepare his wife who was very close to her father. He knew she would take it hard. So he began to say to her, “Honey, you know your father is getting older and he will one day be with the Lord.” Then over the next two years he dropped a word here and there, just getting her ready. He was away in a meeting when the telephone call came. After the service that night, he was sitting in the hotel room when the phone rang. Something inside him said, “That’s for you. This is what you have been talking about for two years now.” Within twenty-eight days his father-in-law was in Heaven. You are not unprepared when you know things ahead of time.

“But the Helper [Comforter], the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.” — John 14:26

The Holy Spirit will teach you. He will bring all things to your remembrance. You can memorize Scriptures in your spirit, besides in your mind. You can have supernatural recall of the Word. And sometimes Scriptures you never even knew will come up out of your spirit by the Holy Spirit. When you look them up in your Bible, you will be amazed at how God was speaking to you. Under the anointing, you will begin to speak and it will be the Holy Spirit speaking if you learn to cooperate with Him.