What does Ezra 4 reveal about what God the Holy Spirit does in and through me?
God the Holy Spirit works in me so that when I face hardships and opposition in this life, I will not react in sin but in prayer. He helps me to pray and to leave vengeance in God’s hands. He also helps me not to use sinful methods in my response to those that do me wrong. He also uses the evil that people to do me for my good. He deepens my faith through trials and suffering (1 Peter 3:8–17).
1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the LORD, the God of Israel,