The Holy Spirit Teaches Us what to Say

The Holy Spirit teaches us what to say. In Luke 12:11-12 Jesus said, “When you are brought before synagogues, rulers and authorities, do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say, for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.”

In the mid 1970’s I was serving in the US Army in Berlin. The Army mandated several days of training to deter racial discrimination. The facilitator presented lots of issues, but didn’t seem to have any solutions. So when he asked for some, I volunteered to the group that I thought Jesus Christ was the answer to our racial discrimination troubles. The facilitator exploded in anger and verbally abused me publicly and forbade me to talk about Christ in our sessions again.

Quite honestly, my immediate response was to report him for religious discrimination! But the Holy Spirit clearly led me in this instance to keep my mouth shut, to love the guy and pray for him. After our session the following day, he approached me and genuinely apologized for his outburst. This gave me an opening to demonstrate the love of Christ toward him. This situation also resulted in several conversations about the Lord with the other participants.

© Rob Fischer 2008