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It has been a joy for me to write the Daily Devotions each morning, and I hope it has been a blessing to each of you. I was planning to take a summer break beginning in June, but after some prayer and discernment, I am thinking it best for me to end now and return in the fall. Thank you all for studying along with me. I look forward to writing again in September. I would encourage you to continue…

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth. (John 16:13)   The Holy Spirit has full access to God because the Spirit is God himself. God has chosen humanity to be the recipients of his truth. Yesterday we learned that Jesus will teach us through the Spirit according to our ability. Today we see that the goal of the Spirit’s teaching is that we will be guided into all the truth (emphasis on the…

I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth. (John 16:12-13)   I am fascinated by this statement of Jesus that he had many other things to teach his disciples, but they were not able to bear them yet. We know that after the resurrection, Jesus spent forty days continuing to teach his disciples about the kingdom of God. It was…

When the Holy Spirit comes, he will convict the world…about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. (John 16:11)   Satan is a liar. He wants us to believe that he is still the ruler of this world. He enjoys it when we fear him rather than fearing God. He wants us to think we are still enslaved to sin, even when Jesus Christ has set us free. Yet Satan is a defeated foe and has already…