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This awareness was so key to the way He lived His life that He talked about it in John 14:10, just before He said we, as believers, would do His works. “I am in the Father, and the Father in Me,” He said. “The words that I speak…I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works” ("New King James Version"). In the next few verses, He explained what that has to do with us. He said that after He finished His mission on earth and returned to heaven: “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever…. He lives with you [constantly] and will be in you…. The Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name…He will teach you all things” (verses 14:16-17, 26, "Amplified Bible, Classic Edition"). If you’ve ever wondered how it’s possible for you to live like Jesus did, how you could ever operate in that kind of wisdom, there’s your answer. God has sent the same Holy Spirit to indwell you who was in Jesus. He’s on the inside of you 24/7 and He’s in there to teach you all things. You can learn something new from the Holy Spirit every day from now throughout eternity if you’ll become aware of His presence and pay attention to Him. You can press into His wisdom by faith and find out everything God has and everything God knows! I realize that sounds like a wild assertion, but I can make it with confidence because Jesus essentially made it Himself in John 16. There, expounding further on how the Holy Spirit would help us, as believers, after Jesus returned to heaven, He said: "It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come…he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you" (verses 7-8, 13-15). The Master Designer of the Universe You want to get a glimpse of how much the Spirit of God knows? You want to see the kind of wisdom He possesses? Read in the Bible about how He planned out and created the universe. According to Isaiah 40, He calculated the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales. He measured the waters in the hollow of His hand and marked off the heavens with a 9-inch span. (See verses 12-13, "AMPC.") When I found out the Spirit of God measured out the heavens with a 9-inch span, I got out my ruler! I knew that a span is the distance between the tip of the thumb and the tip of the little finger, and I wanted to see if my span was the same size as The LORD’s. It turns out, mine is a little smaller. It’s 8¾ inches. (I have stumpy fingers.) 28 : BVOV

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