This week, we are privileged to have a guest speaker who will be wrapping up our series “Living Life with the Holy Spirit,” with Session 8: The Comforting Presence. Dr. Nelson Estrada from Asia Biblical Theological Seminary will deliver a message on how the Holy Spirit, as the Comforter, enables believers to endure suffering and hardships alongside empowering us with boldness, wisdom, and divine authority as we fulfill God’s calling to proclaim the Gospel.

The Holy Spirit was never promised to take away our trials, but to walk with us through them. Just as the disciples in Acts were transformed from fearful and inadequate followers into bold witnesses, so we can be strengthened to endure whatever suffering comes our way. The Spirit turns pain into testimony, weakness into strength, and persecution into proclamation. So let’s not pray for es ...