Yay – Help!

Hello everyone,

How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord. Indeed God’s ways are not our way, and He is so awesome in just wanting us to succeed in this race. He has given us the Holy Spirit to teach us, comfort us, guide us, … and even to help us pray. The Bible says that:

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“So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakeness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance.” Romans 8v26 (AMP)

   

The work of the Holy Spirit as our prayer partner is well written in this book - Touch the World through Prayer. The author writes that:- “The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of prayer. He prays directly, speaking with the Father and the Son. He also prays indirectly, praying through you, the believer. It is the nature of God the Son and God the Spirit to pray. They ever live to pray. Just as God has ordained that you join Christ in intercession for His will to be done on earth, so He has ordained that the Holy Spirit should enable, guide, and empower your intercession. To say it in another startling way: God the Son is your enthroned Prayer Partner and God the Spirit is your indwelling Prayer Partner. Just as God the Father remains invisible to your human eyes, so God the Spirit remains invisible. But just as surely as you can know the Fatherhood of God and the Saviorhood of Christ, even so you can know when the Holy Spirit is working within you. To be filled with the Spirit is to be filled with the Spirit of intercession. When the Holy Spirit fills, prayer becomes your very spiritual breath. The Holy Spirit loves to do within you that for which He indwells you – to accomplish God’s will on earth. God has ordained that the prayer of the believer is one of the major ways He accomplishes His will, so the Holy Spirit desires to make intercession a major expression of your spiritual life.” In particular, the Holy Spirit enables and transforms your prayer by:- increasing your desire to pray; bringing Scripture to memory as you pray;  bringing spiritual goals to your attention e.g. the image of Christ to deepen your desire to be more like Him; bringing needs to your attention, so you can pray for them; placing prayer burdens on you; calling you to pray at crisis moments in the lives of people; adding special depth, power and faith to your prayer; wanting you to have a worldwide prayer ministry; calling you to fast; and wanting to multiply your eternal reward (Touch the World through Prayer, by Wesley L. Duewel, pgs. 45-50).

Prayer

Father, we thank You so much for Your Word. We apologize in anyway we have taken for granted our role in prayer, and ask to indeed partner with the Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit in prayer from henceforth. We ask for the enablement of the Holy Spirit to do this, and pray for the grace to yield to His promptings, in Jesus name, amen.