Prayer 2021 - March 2 - Praying with Understanding

Scripture For Today:

1 Corinthians 14:15

 “So what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my understanding; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my understanding...”

 Praying with Understanding

 In our scripture reference for today, we can see the Apostle Paul asking for understanding in his prayer life. And he realizes it only comes through the Holy Spirit.

In Ephesians 1:3, he says, “Blessed by the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who HAS blessed us with ALL Spiritual blessings in Heavenly places IN CHRIST.” Amen!

You can say what you want or desire and even quote scriptures until you are blue in the face. But when it comes to prayer, many times, often times, especially when you are praying for other people, we don’t really know WHAT we should be praying for as we ought. 

Sometimes they will ask us to pray for one thing but the real reason is hidden from us. And when we are lifting them up in prayer before the Lord, what we are asking for just isn’t sitting right in our spirit man. That’s when we need to shift over into tongues and let the Holy Spirit guide our Words – even if we don’t know what it is we are praying about. He DOES! Amen!

Thank God that He comes along and helps us like that. He helps us in our infirmities. He helps us in our times of weakness. He helps us to effectively pray for others as well. Amen!

This includes a lack of knowledge about what to pray about. HE is the one who is making intercession with us through groanings in the Spirit which cannot be uttered in articulate speech (that’s in Romans 8:26).

Again, this scripture does not mean prayer is something the Holy Spirit does APART from you! That would make the Holy Spirit responsible for YOUR prayer life. That is not happening! Amen!

He is NOT responsible for YOUR prayer life – YOU ARE! Amen! Never forget that!

Notice also the Bible says, in Romans 8:26, that the Holy Spirit HELPS the believer in prayer. He is not DOING the prayer – He is HELPING the believer in prayer. He is helping you to pray through what GOD KNOWS needs to be done in your life or in the life of the person you are praying for. 

But the responsibility TO PRAY is yours, and mine and the responsibility of every believer. Amen.

I want to pray for you right now that you would begin to pray for others. This could be loved ones or it could be co-workers, neighbors or someone the Lord has put on your mind to pray for. It could be a nation. It could be OUR NATION – God knows this nation needs prayer and a lot of it. Amen!  But I want to pray that you will allow the Holy Spirit to come along side your prayer time and HELP YOU through groans and spiritual utterings to focus in on the exact need that, in fact, needs prayer. Amen! 

Let’s Pray!

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