RHAPSODY OF REALITIES TEEVO
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH 2024
LET HIM PRAY THROUGH YOU
(Yield To The Holy Spirit In Prayer)
TO THE BIBLE
Romans 8:26 AMPC
“So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; 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.”
LET’S TALK
Henry found himself praying uncontrollably on the floor, his face full of tears and his hands on his tummy, groaning in the Spirit. He continued this for several minutes until there was a note of victory in his heart. Later on, he heard that some thieves had attacked his neighbours while he was at school, but they refused to enter his own home.
This experience exemplifies the powerful nature of intercessory prayer through the Holy Spirit. This is one of the most important kinds of prayer, one in which the Holy Spirit Himself prays through you in intercession for the saints. That’s what we read in our opening verse above. There’s the one in which your spirit is praying in tongues, like the Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 14:14: “For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.”
However, there’re times your spirit may have been praying, and it gets to the level where the Holy Spirit takes over that prayer. At that moment, it’s not your spirit that’s praying anymore but the Holy Spirit praying through you with deep sighs and groanings. You find yourself praying with intense, profuse, uncontrollable tears; you’re wailing, not out of sorrow or anguish but of soul-travail. No words are being formed; you even have to hold your stomach as though you’re in pain, but there’s no pain. It’s the Holy Spirit travailing in prayer through you.
Read our opening scripture again; it says the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings that can’t be uttered in articulate speech. This is an amazing way to pray effectively, and it’s important that you yield yourself to the Holy Spirit to pray through you like this from time to time. It’s His work through you. When He prays through you, Romans 8:28 tells us the result: “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” Hallelujah!
GO DEEPER
Romans 8:26–28 AMPC So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; 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. 27 And He Who searches the hearts of men knows what is in the mind of the [Holy] Spirit [what His intent is], because the Spirit intercedes and pleads [before God] in behalf of the saints according to and in harmony with God’s will. 28 We are assured and know that [[a]God being a partner in their labor] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose.
Jude 1:20 AMPC. But you, beloved, build yourselves up [founded] on your most holy faith [[a]make progress, rise like an edifice higher and higher], praying in the Holy Spirit;
DAILY BIBLE READING
ONE YEAR
Ephesians 4:1-16, Hosea 11-14
TWO YEAR
John 1:24-34, 1 Kings 2
ACT
Speak in tongues right now and yield yourself to Him praying through you.
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