Prayer 2021 - June 13 - The Holy Spirit's Help in Prayer pt 2

Scripture For Today:

Genesis 32:9

 “Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, Lord, you who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,’”

The Holy Spirit’s Help in Prayer pt 2

Yesterday, we started to look at some things the Apostle Paul taught us about praying with the help of the Holy Spirit. We noticed that Paul taught us some things that Jesus did not address or teach on during His earthly ministry. We also seen the reason why Jesus did not take time to teach on this subject is because the disciples would not have understood it since nobody BUT JESUS had been filled with the Holy Spirit – and that happened at HIS baptism. Amen!

Jesus did promise the disciples that the Holy Spirit would come and dwell in them and in every person who would accept Jesus as the Christ, the Messiah and as their Savior. 

He also promised them that THEY would be baptized IN the Holy Spirit AFTER HE ASCENDED to the Father. That is in Luke 24:29 and Acts 1:5 and 8.  But everything He was sharing with them was FUTURE TENSE. It was not happening right then. It would happen at some point in their future.

The Baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues is ONLY promised to born again people under the NEW Covenant. In other words, it is ONLY for those who would live under the age of the dispensation of the Church. The current time that WE are living in. That is from the time of the Crucifixion and Resurrection until the Return of Jesus to this earth.

Which, in case you have noticed, is almost here. Everything that the Bible says has to take place before the Rapture of the Church has been fulfilled. All that’s left is the Trumpet of God to sound and then we are out of here! Praise God!

That’s Good News for us and bad news for everyone else. Praise God!

Anyway, Jesus told His disciples this information before He left, before the Crucifixion. He told them the Baptism of the Holy Spirit would belong to THEM – and, of course – to US who would believe on Him through their teachings. Amen!

Look in Luke 24:49:  “And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you. But tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with Power from on High…”

 Then, in Acts 1:5-8, we read, “ For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

⁶ Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”

⁷ He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. ⁸ But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

The promises that Jesus gave to His disciples was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost. 

120 believers were gathered in the upper room and were praying when, Acts 2:4 says, “All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues^[a]as the Spirit enabled them.”

We need to remember, being filled with the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues, for New Testament believers, was the norm – not the exception. Amen! And when Paul was writing these things for believers in his day, he was also writing them for us today!

It is the illegitimate, immoral churches today that frown on speaking in tongues and the Power of the Holy Spirit to operate in people’s lives that have contributed to the problems we are now witnessing in society and the culture around us today.

Let’s Pray!

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