Daily Devotion

 With Pastor Ancel Presnell

“THE WONDERFUL COUNSELOR FOR YOUR SOUL”

The Christ of Christmas is also the Wonderful, Counsellor. This name was fulfilled far Beyond the Manger when, as a young boy, He astonished the doctors and lawyers in the temple with His understanding. But His counseling didn’t stop there.

He has transformed countless lives—those who felt they could never live good enough, those bound by addiction and immoral living. He has counseled them and made them new creatures through His precious Spirit and His transforming blood. When you are emotionally at a loss and can’t even pray, the Spirit helps your infirmities, making intercession for you with groanings which cannot be uttered (Romans 8:26).

And the other form of counsel is like an attorney: “If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” Christ and God the Father are never in disagreement; they are always on the same page. Christ represents those that His blood has been applied to. When you need wisdom, when you are struggling, and when you sin, the Wonderful Counselor is there, ready to advocate for you and guide you through His Spirit.

1 John 2:1–“My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:”