Daily Affirmations - Day 7 - The Power in Prayer - The Holy Spirit Helps us in Our Weakness
- Alisa B.
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Day 7: The Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us through wordless groans (Romans 8:26).
We are weak and do not know how to pray, so the Spirit steps in and articulates prayers for us with groaning too profound for words (VOICE translation).
The disciples had been with Christ, and had seen Him pray. They had learned to understand something of the connection between His wondrous life in public, and His secret life of prayer. They had learned to believe in Him as a Master in the art of prayer—none could pray like Him. And so they came to Him with the request, “Lord, teach us to pray...”
“Lord, teach us to pray.” Yes, to pray. This is what we need to be taught. Though prayer is so simple that the most unpracticed child can pray, yet it is at the same time the highest and holiest work to which man can rise. It is fellowship with the Unseen and Most Holy One.
The powers of the eternal world have been placed within its reach. It is... the channel of all blessings, the secret of power and life. For you and for me, for the church and for the world, prayer is the means by which God has given us the right to take hold of Him and His strength.
It is on prayer that the promises wait for their fulfillment, the kingdom for its coming, the glory of God for its full revelation. And for this blessed work, how slothful and unfit we are. Only the Spirit of God can enable us to pray aright.
Lord Jesus, I ask You this day to enroll my name among those who confess that they know not how to pray as they ought, and specially ask You for a course of teaching in prayer. Lord, teach me to stay with You in the school, and give You time to train me.
May a deep sense of my ignorance, of the wonderful privilege and power of prayer, of the need of the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of prayer, lead me to cast away my thoughts of what I think I know, and make me kneel before You in true teachableness and poverty of spirit.
And fill me, Lord, with the confidence that with such a teacher as You are I shall learn to pray. In the assurance that I have as my teacher Jesus Himself, who is ever praying to the Father, and by His prayer rules the destinies of His church and the world, I will not be afraid.
As much as I need to know of the mysteries of the prayer-world, You will unfold for me. And when I may not know, You will teach me to be strong in faith, giving glory to God.
Blessed Lord, You will not put to shame Your scholar who trusts You; nor, by Your grace, will I put You to shame either. Amen.
~ Andrew Murray
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