June 2020

“And in like manner also the Spirit lends us a helping hand with reference to our weakness, for the particular thing that we should pray for according to what is necessary in the nature of the case, we do not know with an absolute knowledge; but the Spirit himself comes to our rescue by interceding with unutterable groanings. Moreover, He who is constantly searching our hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit because, according to God, He continually makes intercession on behalf of the saints.” Wuest’s Translation of New Testament.

1. As creation is groaning in expectation to see the revealed sons of God, so we have a groaning in our spirit to reveal Jesus to creation. (Romans 8:19 ) In like manner, the Spirit also lends us a hand to helps us overcome our weaknesses.

2. We can cooperate by acknowledging the Holy Spirit so that he can lend you a helping hand.

3. Refer to your weakness when you pray. When we make a reference to what we struggle with in prayer it releases the rescue protocols of the God through the agency of His Holy Spirit. He can now operate on that area and bring healing and strengthen our weak points over time.

4. Spirit of Truth helps us find that particular thing we should pray for at any given moment. The Holy Spirit’s job is to lead and guide us into all truth.

Joh 16:13 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.

Joh 16:14 He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you.

This is a process and you have to allow it in your heart. In extreme cases He will intervene, but mostly there is a still small voice nudging you to truth on a daily basis. You wake up with an idea, a thought to pursue, a task forgotten, an appointment to be made and kept that could alter the course of your life.

5. Holy Spirit knows what is necessary to pray for right now. If you make lists that is fine, but be led by the Spirit even in your list making! We have too many probabilities and responsibilities to pray for all of it at once. My spirit works with an anointed dashboard that highlights the different spheres of my life, and I am directed towards a person, a task, a project, a revelation, a vision or lost prophetic word – all by the leading of the Holy Spirit. When we read:

Zec 4:6 So he answered and said to me: “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the LORD of hosts.

6. The most wonderful task of the Holy Spirit for me is when he reminds me of what Jesus said. In any situation, because I have studied the word, he will bring that word to my remembrance better than any concordance. In fact, if you look at a modern apostolic person’s Bible, it will contain a system of cross references that you will never find in a tradit