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John 14:25-26 NRSV
Jesus said, “I have said these things to you while I am still with you. But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you.”

John 16:7 NRSV
Jesus said, “Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.”

The Holy Spirit is God with us to comfort and convict, to remind and renew, to guide and guard, to sustain and support. Through the work of the Holy Spirit, we are convicted of our sin and assured of forgiveness. We are reminded of Jesus Christ and renewed in our relationship, guided toward the fulfillment of God’s purposes, and guarded against the powers of sin and death. In the power of the Holy Spirit we are sustained and supported amid temptation, suffering, and death. It is the Holy Spirit who draws us toward God and into community with God and one another.
– Kenneth L. Carder, Living Our Beliefs, Revised Edition

The following prayer is based on these promises of Jesus and a passage from Francis Chan’s excellent book, Forgotten God: Reversing our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit.

Prayer: Come Holy Spirit. Come Live in Me.
ONE:
Wondrous God, it is an astounding truth that you raised Jesus from the dead,
and it is equally astounding that you would desire your Spirit to enliven us.

ALL:
Come Holy Spirit. Come live in me.
I do not know what You will do or where You will lead me,
yet I welcome Your presence and guidance.

ONE:
Holy Spirit of God, we are tired of living in ways
which look exactly like people who do not have you living in them.

ALL:
Open me to consistently live with an awareness of Your strength and counsel.
Move in me so I am different today from what I was yesterday.
Manifest Your fruit more and more in me.
Help me submit myself to Your leading on a daily basis.

ONE:
Holy Spirit, Jesus said it is better for us that the You would come.

ALL:
Make my life an example of this promise and truth.
Come Holy Spirit. Come live in me.

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Come Holy Spirit. Come Live in Me. © 2012 Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia
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