Journey to Wholeness
Paraklétos is variously translated as Paraclete, Advocate, Intercessor, Consoler, Comforter, Helper, Strengthener, Standby, and Counselor. Paraclete, the Anglicized form of the Greek word, is used here to represent all possible translations.… Read the rest
When they lead you away and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say. But say whatever will be given to you at that hour.
You are not abandoned—God draws near within you, guiding, comforting, and revealing His living presence through the Spirit of truth.… Read the rest
“Do you see that the love of God is intertwined with our own and connected like a sort of chain? Thus, it sometimes says that there are two commandments, sometimes only one.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him.
I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing.
But if it is by the Spirit of God that I drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me.
Beholding the Father in the Son draws us into the heart of Jesus’ revelation.
“Do not let your hearts be troubled.… Read the rest
No one has ever seen God. The only Son, God, who is at the Father’s side, has revealed him.
John 1:18
Do you not believe that I am in the Father
and the Father is in me?