Further, as we sit at our desks in our studies, we must experience the Spirit’s ministry as the spirit of illumination, enabling us to enter into the mind of God in any given text or theme of Scripture. When we pray at the beginning of the preparation of our sermons, “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law” (Ps. 119:18), it is the Holy Spirit who brings God’s answer to our minds and hearts.
