{"id":4517,"date":"2020-04-09T19:29:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T19:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.azurewebsites.net\/nlt\/?p=4517"},"modified":"2021-12-08T09:20:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T09:20:34","slug":"holy-week-reading-plan-day-6-never-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/2020\/04\/09\/holy-week-reading-plan-day-6-never-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Week Reading Plan Day 6: Never Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cWhen the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth.\u201d John 16:13, NLT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Devotional from the Beyond Suffering Bible<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After years spent with Jesus, the disciples were devastated to hear him say,
\u201cI am going away\u201d (16:5). They had been living with him for years. They had come to place their faith in him as their Messiah. He was their hope. Now he was leaving? This couldn\u2019t be! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will all lose people who are close to us. This is one of the most painful experiences of life. However, Jesus did not want the disciples to dwell on his impending death. He revealed that something very significant would happen once he left them: He would send an Advocate, the Holy Spirit, to guide his disciples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Although it would be great to walk and talk with Jesus, we discover as believers that God in his wisdom has given us a greater gift. As children of God who have been given the Holy Spirit, we have God himself dwelling within each of us. Jesus was restricted by time and space as an embodied person, but the Holy Spirit isn\u2019t\u2014he is with us always. He helps us in our weakness (Rom 8:26) and serves as a guarantee of our inheritance as God\u2019s children (Eph 1:14). Think about it. No matter what our circumstances\u2014whether disabled, alone, suffering, or confused and afraid\u2014God is with us in the person of the Holy Spirit. Jesus did not leave the world because he wanted to return to heaven. He departed so that he could send the Holy Spirit to be with us always.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a moment to thank the Lord for sending his Holy Spirit to empower you to overcome any obstacle and to accomplish the work of God. Allow the Spirit to guide you in your relationship with God and others. This is a lavish gift from God to his people; resolve to be sensitive to the leading of the Spirit in your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a look inside the Beyond Suffering Bible<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth.\u201d John 16:13, NLT Devotional from the Beyond Suffering Bible After years spent with Jesus, the disciples were devastated to hear him say, \u201cI am going away\u201d (16:5). They had been living with him for years. They had come to place their faith […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,14,15,45,52],"tags":[116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5694,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions\/5694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}