Greetings saints of God, today I want to encourage us to remember where our help comes from.  The Psalmist says in Psalm 121:1-2 our help comes from the Lord, maker of heaven and earth. This realisation must hold our gaze and focus our attention. 

In John 16:13 we read that Jesus had to go that the helper, comforter would come to help us in our sorrows. The Holy Spirit would come to lead us into the truth of God. We cannot do Kingdom work unaided and thus the Holy Spirit of God comes to help with the work. The third person of the triune God is a present help in times of trouble, firstly to indwell us, to empower us, and to reveal the deep things of God to us. 

The Spirit of God comes to show the way to God He is our refuge and strength. When John speaks in chapter 6 of the Spirit of God, he says the Spirit quickens, revives, and resurrects. He then speaks of the Word of God, describing it as spirit and life, (John 6:63). Whatever life the church has must be of the Holy Spirit, and every child of God must allow themselves to be led by the Holy Spirit of God. 

The kingdom can function righteously and effectively without the following hindrances: hard heartedness, bitterness, malice, strife, gossip, back biting, and lies but it cannot function as it must without the overarching power and authority of the Holy Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit is in control.