Our Helper is the Holy Spirit!

John 14:14-16

14 If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.
15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Role of the Spirit
"16 I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever;"

Notice that God said here that the Holy Spirit will "be with you FOREVER." God never takes back His promise to keep us until He comes for us.

Romans 8:14-15
"14 For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”

When we have been sealed with the Holy Spirit at salvation we are sealed FOREVER.

Ephesians 1:12-14 "…12 in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory. 13 And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth— the gospel of your salvation— you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.…"

An important picture of this is the oneness that is given to us in marriage. That oneness is not of us but a work of God. He changes us from two people into one person. Each one in this marriage of two into one we have specific roles and responsibilities. The husband is to lead and the woman is to help. She is to help in all manners of his life, supporting him in his business as well as providing counsel when he is not able to see something that we can see.

As wives our best friend is God and our second best friend is our husband. We wish the best for our husbands, the reason we seek Christ continually for His guidance to our husbands. A wife who loves her husband will pray for him as well as counsel him when the Holy Spirit gives her insight about a matter.

The greatest hope and desire we can have for our husband is that he will seek the Lord for all matters of life. The Holy Spirit works in both husband and wife in this matter of marriage. To negate half of the union as unable to help with truth is to negate the roles of each in the marriage.

Men are to lead their wives, when the husband is having difficulty seeing something that is clear to the wife then the wife must speak truth to her husband. In a godly marriage both are praying, both are seeking the Holy Spirit and both are relying on the Holy Spirit together.

One half of the person in the oneness is not ignored only to have orders barked at them. Both are seeking Christ together while the wife seeks to help the husband become successful in his walk and mission with Christ.

1 Peter 5:3
"Not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock."

1 Corinthians 11:1
"Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ."

We are to follow our husbands as they follow Christ.

Titus 1:7
"For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,"