Prayer and Intercession Part 5
Praying in the Spirit has the authority of heaven behind it. There is no way you could know when Satan and his demonic forces will launch an attack. The Holy Spirit will prompt you at the strategic, opportune time: With all prayer and petition, pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints Eph. 6:18; Eph. 6:12; Jas. 5:16b.
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Break Free
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Prayer and Intercession Part 4
Praying in the Spirit edifies the person praying. Then, when you are built up, strengthened, and encouraged, you can continue with the spiritual the warfare you are called to do:
One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself 1 Cor. 14:4a.
But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith; praying in the Holy Spirit Jude 20.
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Prayer and Intercession Part 3
Praying in the Spirit has a definite meaning. Although you do not understand what you are praying for, God does: There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of languages in the world, and no style is without meaning 1 Cor. 14:10.
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Prayer and intercession Part 2
Praying in the Spirit is a means by which the Holy Spirit intercedes through your Spirit in prayer. This is where we get the term “prayer language,” an unlearned language in which you can pray. When you pray with your understanding, you are easily influenced by your feelings, thoughts, desires, experiences, distractions, knowledge, and will. Even your vocabulary can limit your prayers. God gives you a prayer language that bypasses your mind, will, and emotions and allows you to continue in prayer without interruption:
And in the same way, the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words, and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is because he intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose Rom. 8:26-28; 1 Cor. 14:14; 1 John 5:14,15; Jas. 4:3.
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Prayer and intercession Part 1
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His Authority
Father, I ask that You will now be done, and I thank you. In Jesus’ name and by His authority, I declare it done.
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8. JEHOVAH-ROHI: “Jehovah, my shepherd.”
MEANING: Companion, friend, to cherish, to feed or lead, to guide and direct and instruct.
The title SHEPHERD shows us that God is able to condescend to a relationship with mortal, sinful creatures whom He has redeemed. It suggests a one-on-one relationship to feed us and keep us as His inheritance 2 Sam. 7:8; Ps. 78:70-72.
Shepherding has not changed much in Palestine. A Palestinian shepherd lives with his animals night and day, establishing true intimacy with them. He calls each one by name, and they, knowing his voice and responding only to his call, follow him. By sleeping in the makeshift sheepfold, he protects the sheep from thieves and from preying animals who would devour them at night. The sheep sense his watchfulness and fear no evil. He provides pasture and water for them even in the wilderness.
If there can exist such a tender intimacy between a man and his sheep, how much more so between Jehovah and man, whom He Himself created?
What a marvelous thing that God should offer Himself in such a relationship.
This portrays how we are in the shadow of our Father’s loving care, watchful protection, and strong defense. He truly keeps us from all evil. He never slumbers nor sleeps. He is attached and devoted to us and protects our lives from perils and pitfalls.
God is an intensely personal Shepherd. He knows each one of us individually.
Jesus is our Good Shepherd who came to gently lead us. He qualified himself to become the Great Shepherd by first becoming a lamb, thus entering intimately into every experience and need of a sheep.
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