But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. Jude 1:20
Our Tuesday Night Truth was awesome and so special. Among other things, I believe we all recognized our total dependence on the Holy Spirit in our Christian walk and particularly in our prayers. In prayer, our complete dependence is twofold:
First, we are to pray to be filled with the Holy Spirit; to cry out to God for His Spirit, to be cleansed and guided, to be totally dependent upon and open to all that He would want to do in and through us. We should have an ongoing hunger to know Him more.
Secondly, the Holy Spirit guides and empowers us in our prayers. Without Him, our prayers are empty, meaningless and of no effect but as we are led by the Spirit, we pray in ways that we would never pray otherwise. In times where we are lost as to how or what to pray, He is always there to intercede.
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 with groans that words cannot express. Romans 8:26
E.M. Bounds wrote:
“We urge the seeking of the Holy Spirit. We need him, and we need to stir ourselves up to seek him. The measure we receive of him will be gauged by the fervor of faith and prayer with which we seek him. Our ability to work for God, and to pray for God, and live for God, and affect others for God will be dependent on the measure of the Holy Spirit received by us, dwelling in us, and working through us.”
We pray “Come, Holy Spirit!”