Our Omnipotent Helper

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all.

2 Corinthians 13:14

God the Holy Spirit is equal with the Son and with the Father in every respect. The Bible teaches that He is coequal with God the Father and coequal with God the Son. The Bible also teaches that the Holy Spirit is a Person. He is never to be referred to as “it.” He is not just an agent, He is not just an influence. He is a mighty Person, the Holy Spirit of God.

The Bible tells us that He is omnipotent. That means that He has all power.

The Bible tells us that He is omnipresent. That means that He is everywhere at the same time.

The Bible tells us that He is omniscient. That means that He has all knowledge. He knows everything that we do—He watches us. “His eye is on the sparrow,” and if God the Spirit is watching the sparrow, how much more He is watching us every moment.

He sees the thoughts and intents of our hearts. He delves into our minds, into the things we think, into the intents of our souls. He knows all about us. He knows everything. The Bible says that everything we do He writes down in a book, and someday it shall be brought out as evidence at the great Judgment of God.

The Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit is eternal. The Bible tells us that He is holy. He is referred to in the New Testament alone one hundred times as the Holy Spirit—absolute holiness, absolute purity, absolute righteousness.

What should this mean to me? With the seventeenth-century Anglican bishop Jeremy Taylor, I can say, “It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.”

Our Father and our God, I know You are awesome, all-powerful, all-knowing, and always present with me. Your Spirit indwells me and guides me in the Way to eternal life. With Your help, and through Christ my Lord, I can be more than a conqueror in life. Amen.

Billy Graham, Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2010).