~ Dr. Wesley L. Duewel-
The Holy Spirit will add special depth, power, and faith to your prayer.
He will not only direct you to pray for special needs, but He will also guide you in how to pray for special needs, but He will also guide you in how to pray for them, will strengthen your faith as you pray, and will anoint and empower your praying.
In addition, as your Payer Partner, He will join you in praying and interceding at a depth not possible to you alone (Rom. 8:26-27). (Google image, Pray for our world today)
We are weak in ourselves and our prayers are weak as compared to His. He sees the urgency far better than we so. His infinite personality feels an infinite depth of love, sorrow, compassion, and yearning. He sees the tremendous potential and possibilities beyond anything we could ever understand.
The Spirit's prayer, says Paul, transcends any possible prayer on your part. This is not so much His intercession through you, but above and beyond that it is His intercession for you (v. 27).
He intercedes for you and for those for whom you intercede. He has led you to share his heartcry, His burden, His love. But He does not leave you to pray alone. He joins you as your loving Prayer Partner, adding infinite understanding, desire, and power.
The Holy Spirit wants you to have a worldwide prayer ministry.
He intercedes for you and for those for whom you intercede. He has led you to share his heartcry, His burden, His love. But He does not leave you to pray alone. He joins you as your loving Prayer Partner, adding infinite understanding, desire, and power.
The Holy Spirit wants you to have a worldwide prayer ministry.
The Holy Spirit, your indwelling Prayer Partner, longs for you to share His heartbeat for the whole world. Since He is the Creator God, He loves all His creation equally.
About half of the people of the world have never heard the name of Jesus; or if they have heard it mentioned, they have not heard enough about Him to enable them to make an intelligent decision to receive Christ.
These peoples live in a kind of poverty not often recognized or publicized. It is a poverty of intercessory prayer, for the intercessors in these heathen nations are few.
Who will pray for them? Who will pray for the outcast, the atheist, the communist, the terrorist—if not the Christians in our nation? The Holy Spirit, who prays for them with deep hunger each day, longs for you to share His intercession for the rapid advance of the gospel.
How tragic if our reluctance to pray and our failure to reach these lost ones are factors contributing to the delay of Christ's return (Matt. 24:14).
God forgive us! Why not stop right now and ask forgiveness, promising that through the Spirit's enabling power, you will begin to assume your full role as His prayer partner. Undoubtedly there are whole cities, nations, and world leaders waiting for your prayer. How long must they wait?
The Holy Spirit may call you to fast.
About half of the people of the world have never heard the name of Jesus; or if they have heard it mentioned, they have not heard enough about Him to enable them to make an intelligent decision to receive Christ.
These peoples live in a kind of poverty not often recognized or publicized. It is a poverty of intercessory prayer, for the intercessors in these heathen nations are few.
Who will pray for them? Who will pray for the outcast, the atheist, the communist, the terrorist—if not the Christians in our nation? The Holy Spirit, who prays for them with deep hunger each day, longs for you to share His intercession for the rapid advance of the gospel.
How tragic if our reluctance to pray and our failure to reach these lost ones are factors contributing to the delay of Christ's return (Matt. 24:14).
God forgive us! Why not stop right now and ask forgiveness, promising that through the Spirit's enabling power, you will begin to assume your full role as His prayer partner. Undoubtedly there are whole cities, nations, and world leaders waiting for your prayer. How long must they wait?
The Holy Spirit may call you to fast.
We as a church have largely neglected the method of fasting as a means to more powerful praying and greater prayer results. From time to time the Holy Spirit will call you to add fasting to your prayer. (A more lengthy discussion of fasting is found in chapter 13.)
The Holy Spirit wants to multiply your eternal reward.
The Holy Spirit wants to multiply your eternal reward.
Christ will greatly reward all His intercessors for their faithfulness. Far more depends on the faithful exercise of prayer than most Christians realize.
Significant prayer battles are being fought again and again. You are in danger of missing the greatest opportunities of your Christian Life. Christ and the Holy Spirit long for you to be their effective prayer partner. They need your intercessory help.
God the Father has ordained that much depends on your prayer. Don't fail your divine Prayer Partners. Don't fail your world. The Holy Spirit longs for your prayer life to become powerful and effective. He wants you to receive your full and glorious reward. Don't miss the intercessor's crown He has waiting for you!
(Chapter 6, pp. 49-50, italics added for emphasis)
Significant prayer battles are being fought again and again. You are in danger of missing the greatest opportunities of your Christian Life. Christ and the Holy Spirit long for you to be their effective prayer partner. They need your intercessory help.
God the Father has ordained that much depends on your prayer. Don't fail your divine Prayer Partners. Don't fail your world. The Holy Spirit longs for your prayer life to become powerful and effective. He wants you to receive your full and glorious reward. Don't miss the intercessor's crown He has waiting for you!
(Chapter 6, pp. 49-50, italics added for emphasis)
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Original posting of #18 The Holy Spirit Will Add Special Depth, Power
Let's pray-
Father, we look to You for help in learning to pray with more depth, power and faith. Your Spirit is our Ability to do so, and He joins us in praying and interceding at a depth not possible to us alone.
As we discover that we are in ourselves weak compared to Him, we will look to Him to see the urgency in what it is we need to be praying for. It is His interceding for us at Christ's throne in glory, that makes the difference in adding infinite understanding, desire and power to our prayer.
The question is, Who will pray for those who've never heard of Jesus' story of Redemption? Most Christians live in spiritual poverty of intercessory praying. We find that the intercessors for the heathen nations are few.
How tragic, if our reluctance to pray and our failure to reach out to lost ones are factors that contribute to the delay of Chris's return. As You depend upon our praying, help us understand that the rewards for the intercessor' crown awaits for those who pray for what is on Your Heart.
We pray for Your divine help through Your Holy Spirit in and through the name of Jesus! Amen.
651-655 one-line Scriptures for those of you who want to learn some more verses this week- or to review them from when they were first posted-
651- Ps. 62:12 "Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work."
652- John 15:13 "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
653- Ps. 69:5 "O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee."
654- Pro. 15:32 "He that refuseth insturction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding."
655- 2 Cor. 3:17 "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
Our Quote for today-
~Corrie Ten Boom- "The riches of the Bible are ours, but people continue to argue over interpretation. For those who have not yet accepted the Savior Jesus Christ, and who are therefore lost, it is the same as having your house on fire, and then having to listen to the firemen argue about which hose to use!" (Check Romans 14:3-4). [from EACH NEW DAY]
Words of wisdom-
~ Because our tongues are totally unrighteous without God's help, we are admonished to bridle them! We will eat the "fruit" of what we say, so we need to stay clear of negativity, as these words can tear down someone's faith and hope. We're to build up honorable words, so we can stay in peace, for it is true that "what we feed our hearts eventually comes out our mouths."
If you're looking for help to receive the Lord Jesus as your personal Savior, the link to Billy Graham's information is the Prayer for Salvation
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