‘We do not know what we should pray for…but the spirit …makes intercession for us.’ Romans 8:26 NKJV
When you go to a foreign country you can feel uncomfortable and a bit lost, because you don’t speak the language. Everything is different from what you’re accustomed to. The language of the spiritual world is prayer and since the spiritual world is the source of our power, victory, peace, joy, and everything else we need, it’s essential that we learn to speak it. The good news is, we have the perfect teacher and interpreter; the Holy Spirit Himself. One of His jobs is to teach us the language of prayer and guide us when it comes to addressing God and He’s good at this job! The Bible says the Holy Spirit can interpret our prayers to God even when we don’t know what to say. ‘If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans’ (Romans 8:26 TM). Isn’t that wonderful? Prayer is the link between the physical and the spiritual world; and since the spiritual world controls the physical, getting connected to the world above affects our functioning in the world below. Because prayer is relational, the Holy Spirit will communicate God’s heart back to us by connecting with our human spirit so that we’ll hear God talk to us in the deepest part of our being. That’s why prayer cannot be rushed. It’s also why taking time to meditate and be still before God is so important. It allows the Holy Spirit to share God’s thoughts with us, so that we begin thinking His way. How valuable is that?
When you go to a foreign country you can feel uncomfortable and a bit lost, because you don’t speak the language. Everything is different from what you’re accustomed to. The language of the spiritual world is prayer and since the spiritual world is the source of our power, victory, peace, joy, and everything else we need, it’s essential that we learn to speak it. The good news is, we have the perfect teacher and interpreter; the Holy Spirit Himself. One of His jobs is to teach us the language of prayer and guide us when it comes to addressing God and He’s good at this job! The Bible says the Holy Spirit can interpret our prayers to God even when we don’t know what to say. ‘If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans’ (Romans 8:26 TM). Isn’t that wonderful? Prayer is the link between the physical and the spiritual world; and since the spiritual world controls the physical, getting connected to the world above affects our functioning in the world below. Because prayer is relational, the Holy Spirit will communicate God’s heart back to us by connecting with our human spirit so that we’ll hear God talk to us in the deepest part of our being. That’s why prayer cannot be rushed. It’s also why taking time to meditate and be still before God is so important. It allows the Holy Spirit to share God’s thoughts with us, so that we begin thinking His way. How valuable is that?
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