Prayer 2021 - March 3 - Groaning's in the Spirit

Scripture For Today:

Ephesians 6:18

“And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.”

Groanings in the Spirit

Groaning that come out of your spirit and escape your lips are the Spirit of God helping or assisting you in prayer. Amen! There are some things that come out of your heart that cannot be expressed in words and are, therefore, expressed by groanings too deep for articulate speech.

These groanings are inspired by the Holy Spirit. They come from deep within you and come up and escape verbally through your lips. Praying with groanings is one way of making intercession. Remember what we have already covered, intercession or intercessory prayer is praying for someone else, not for yourself.

An intercessor take the place of another in their prayer time. There is a prayer of intercession for the lost, of course. But I’m talking here about intercession for another person. It could be a family member or someone close to you. It usually is, at least in my experience.

So praying with groanings too deep for articulate speech could also include praying in tongues because speaking in tongues is inarticulate speech as well, as we have already shared from Romans 8:26 in other sessions.

That agrees with what the Apostle Paul said. Paul said that when he prayed in an unknown tongue, it was his spirit praying. In other words, praying with your spirit by the help of the Holy Spirit is prayer that is not coming out of your mind – it is coming out of your spirit. Amen!

It may be a prayer in an unknown tongue, that is unknown to you but known to another person as their native language, or it may be totally unknown and known only to God. But it is prayer that is inspired and directed by the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is the one who helps the believer TO pray! Amen! And He helps us to intercede with others and for others in the process. However, the Holy Spirit does NOT do our praying for us, as I have taught previously. 

It is our responsibility to take the time to pray and to intercede for others and to obey the gentle urgings of the Holy Spirit to do so. As we yield to the Holy Spirit in this process, we may pray in groanings according to the will of God.

We can also pray in other tongues at will. We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to prompt us to do that. We can take that initiative on our own. As we yield to the Holy Spirit’s guidance He will give us utterances according to the will of God. That utterance be groanings or it may be intercession in tongues, an unknown tongue to man and known only to God or unknown to us but known by another man.

Either way you look at, praying in tongues and uttering groanings in the Spirit are forms of prayers for intercession. Amen!

Let’s Pray!

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