The Unrivalled Power of Prayer

The Unrivalled Power of Prayer

"We know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered." Romans 8:26

We realize that we are energized by the Holy Spirit for prayer; we know what it is to pray in the Spirit; but we do not so often realize that the Holy Spirit Himself prays in us prayers which we cannot utter. When we are born again of God and are indwelt by the Spirit of God, He expresses for us the unutterable.

"He," the Spirit in you, "maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God," and God searches your heart not to know what your conscious prayers are, but to find out what is the prayer of the Holy Spirit.

The Spirit of God needs the nature of the believer as a shrine in which to offer His intercession. "Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost." When Jesus Christ cleansed the temple, He "would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple." The Spirit of God will not allow you to use your body for your own convenience. Jesus ruthlessly cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and said - "My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves."

Have we recognized that our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost? If so, we must be careful to keep it undefiled for Him. We have to remember that our conscious life, though it is only a tiny bit of our personality, is to be regarded by us as a shrine of the Holy Ghost. He will look after the unconscious part that we know nothing of; but we must see that we guard the conscious part for which we are responsible.

My Utmost for His Highest
November 8
by Oswald Chambers

Hey, you're cheating and reading ahead...

my wife and i enjoy this devotional as well.

Might this thread be a place to encourage one another to pray without ceasing and, maybe, to talk about 'praying in the Spirit.' Do you have any thoughts on this, HeartSong?

Hey, you're cheating and reading ahead...

Do you have any thoughts on this, HeartSong?

:-)

Blessings to you and your wife.

I too am writing out thoughts that might fit, in part, here. They began in what was shared by last Tuesday’s SI speaker (Live Revival Conference Prayer). If you don’t know, someone speaks at the beginning and end.

Eph. 3: 20-21 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, [u][b]according to the power that worketh in us[/u][/b], Unto him [be] glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. Can you see revival there?

Glory to God. We never pray alone. There are three of us at least in intercession every time we pray: The person that prays, the Spirit maketh intercession (Romans 8:26) and our risen Lord interceding (Hebrews 7:25).

Any start in prayer,
The smallest squeak
Every going on in prayer
Is so, so profitable
Over flowing with exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.

Chambers wrote: He will look after the unconscious part that we know nothing of;

Surely God’s indwelling Holy Spirit also searches out in us what separates us from God as we pray and He intercedes there. We pray for our children and are corrected ourselves. And for revival, and for…and for…Praise God, more of Him…working in us…glory in the church.

When intercession seems long and difficult it is good to remember and experience [u][b]The Unrivaled Power of Prayer[/u][/b]. All that God does. What encouragement. What a relief. What a Glory!

If only I could put it better.