The Holy Spirit - our Helper - How to stop fear and insecurity

We cannot keep Jesus’ Commandments on our own, but He promised us the Holy Spirit, our Helper, who will do just that – help us!Show more

I have tried to change my bad habits (the ones I knew about) for years and years, but nothing worked. It was like a rubber band – whenever I wasn’t paying intentional attention to what I was thinking or saying or doing, I kept falling back into old, unhealthy, destructive patterns. I never seemed to get to the “once I did it enough times, it’ll be the go-to.”

Until I heard about the Holy Spirit, and how we receive Him when we make the decision to follow Jesus for the rest of our lives and to make Him our Lord and Savior. The Holy Spirit is our Helper – He is God, and He lives in us and is always comforting, helping, correcting, guiding us to do the right thing. Once I stopped trying to change by my own (will) power, I was able to change by the Power of the Holy Spirit.

The truth is, we will always have free will, God promised us that He will never force us to do anything. So at any given moment, we can choose to do the wrong thing, but when we get to know the Holy Spirit and start relying on Him, as the Bible teaches us we’re meant to, our new, healthy thoughts, beliefs, words, actions and behaviours will be the new go-to. Not by our power, but by His Power.