Prayer 2021 - March 29 - Learn How to Depend on the Holy Spirit pt 1

Scripture For Today:

Jude 1:20

“But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit…”

Learn to Depend on the Holy Spirit pt 1

You need to depend on the Holy Spirit to help you in your prayer life. As we have discussed in previous lessons, one important way the Holy Spirit helps us in prayer is to give us utterance in other tongues. Paul discusses this in First Corinthians 14:14-15:

“For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with understanding also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with understanding also.”

The Apostle Paul said in these verses to pray in tongues is to pray with one’s spirit by the help of the Holy Spirit within us. If Paul is correct in this statement, then we need to know about it. Amen?

We need to pray with our spirit as well as with our understanding. I suppose all Christians everywhere pray with their understanding, but not all pray with their spirit by praying in other tongues. Many do not even know that it is possible to do so.

Some people, in their haste and ignorance, have said that tongues have been done away with. But you see here, praying in tongues is your spirit praying by the Holy Spirit that dwells within you. Amen! 

If tongues has been done away with, then how are you going to pray with your spirit today like we just read in First Corinthians? The Corinthian Christians did not have any means of praying that is not available to us today! We have the same biblical means they had. Amen!

The ability to pray in tongues with our spirit is just as available to us today as it was to them two thousand years ago. 

The Greek translation of Romans 8:6 (where it talks about groanings in the spirit) actually says, “groanings that cannot be uttered with articulate speech.”  Praise God! That means speaking in tongues is NOT your articulate, everyday speech that you use. Amen.

Do not ever forget that the ability to speak in tongues is not only the initial sign of the infilling of the Holy Spirit, but it is a CONTINUAL experience for the rest of our natural life on this earth. Amen! Speaking in tongues assists us in our prayer, in our praise and in our worship. Glory to God!

Let’s Pray!

Please subscribe to this podcast, leave us a quick 5 star review on Apple Podcasts to help us grow and be sure to visit our website for more information on our ministry: https://podcastersforchrist.com. And while you are at the website, download the free resource I have for you… it is free and is called, “How to Start a Christian Podcast.” It will bless you – go and download it today.

You can also WATCH these session on our Facebook Playlist at this link: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtKWeKtmv-BwgkquBTsSh-GznbmuUp_R2