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Presented by Lisa Bishop
Does your prayer life feel weak? We have been exploring the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives and today we’ll wrap up by looking to God’s Word to power up our prayer life.
I don’t know about you but sometimes my prayer life can be really puny. There are times I just go about my day and forget to pray for God’s supernatural wisdom and power. Other times I feel like my prayers are a broken record, and I simply don’t know what to say. Have you ever felt that way?
There is good news! When you are at a loss for words, this is what Romans 8:26b-28 says,
We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose (Romans 8:26b-28).
When you do not know exactly how you should pray, or can barely squeak out a prayer, God himself (through the Holy Spirit) helps you and prays on your behalf. And he prays for you in a way that guarantees all things will work together for your good.
There is no other God like our God! Whatever you are facing, ask the Holy Spirit to intercede on your behalf; his prayer for you will make a way through.
As we end our time, I want to pray Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 3 over you. If you can, and feel comfortable, open your hands, palms up in a position of receiving this blessing from the Lord.
For this reason, I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen (Ephesians 3:14-21).
