Who Is the Holy Spirit?
“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.”
John 14:26 (ESV)
In the Trinity, the Holy Spirit is often the one we know least. We have a picture of the Father as Creator, we know Jesus the Son incarnate, but the Spirit remains vague — like a holy draft of air, a fuzzy force. Yet Jesus did not call Him a force; He called Him the Helper, a word that literally means "the one who stands beside."
The Spirit is not an influence, He is a presence. He teaches when you read, He brings things back to mind when you forget, He intercedes when words fail, He strengthens when courage falters. His discretion is not absence: it is His own way of being God with you, in your innermost being.
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
Romans 8:26 (ESV)
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth.
John 16:13 (ESV)
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
Galatians 5:22-23 (ESV)