Powerful, Helpful Prayer
Romans 8:1 ESV
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
The Spirit:
1. Changes our thinking
2. Produces life & peace in us
3. Lives in us
4. Will resurrect us
5. Helps us overcome sin
6. Confirms our adoption
7. The Spirit prays for us
Romans 8:26-27 ESV
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
1st The Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness
Romans 8:26a ESV
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness.
Romans 8:25 ESV
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Romans 8:26a ESV
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness.
Help:
“To aggressively and personally perform a task with another for the purpose of giving appropriate help.”
Luke 10:40 NLT
But Martha was distracted by the big dinner she was preparing. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, doesn’t it seem unfair to you that my sister just sits here while I do all the work? Tell her to come and help me.”
Romans 8:26 ESV
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness.
Romans 8:26a ESV
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought,
1 Corinthians 13:12 NLT
Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
2 Corinthians 12:7-9 NIV
To keep me from becoming conceited, because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
2nd The Holy Spirit intercedes for us with groanings
Romans 8:26b ESV
But the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
Romans 8:26b ESV
But the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
Galatians 4:6 ESV
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
Romans 8:15 ESV
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"
Romans 8:26b ESV
But the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
1.It strengthens the believer when they pray in it
1 Corinthians 14:4a NLT
A person who speaks in tongues is strengthened personally,
2.The prayer language is mysterious
1 Corinthians 14:2 NLT
For if you have the ability to speak in tongues, you will be talking only to God, since people won’t be able to understand you. You will be speaking by the power of the Spirit, but it will all be mysterious.
1 Corinthians 14:2b NIV
he utters mysteries with his spirit.
3. You cannot understand it with your mind
1 Corinthians 14:14 NLT
For if I pray in tongues, my spirit is praying, but I don’t understand what I am saying.
4. It is vocal
1 Corinthians 14:14-15 NLT
For if I pray in tongues, my spirit is praying, but I don’t understand what I am saying. Well then, what shall I do? I will pray in the spirit, and I will also pray in words I understand. I will sing in the spirit, and I will also sing in words I understand.
5. The Spirit prays but my spirit prays
1 Corinthians 14:2 NLT
For if you have the ability to speak in tongues, you will be talking only to God, since people won’t be able to understand you. You will be speaking by the power of the Spirit, but it will all be mysterious.
6. Paul assumes everyone can do it
1 Corinthians 14:18 NLT
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than any of you.
Romans 8:26b ESV
But the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
3rd The Holy Spirit knows God’s will for our lives
Romans 8:27a ESV
And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit,
Romans 8:27 ESV
And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
1 John 5:14-15 NIV
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
