Part 14 of our Holy Spirit series focuses on how the Holy Spirits prays with us and for us. We believe this will be an 18-Part Series in which you’ll discover who The Holy Spirit is and what He does. Many attributes are given to The Holy Spirit throughout Scripture. He is not a force. He is a person. He is a member of the Trinity, a part of YHWH. He is referred to as a “he”. In Parts 1-13 of this series, we featured His part in creating, recreating, convicting, teaching, bringing us peace through hope, witnessing Jesus as God in the flesh, creating a clean heart, connecting the church, dwelling inside you, how He grieves, how He gives you spiritual senses, His part in our spiritual baptism, how He bestows spiritual gifts, and how He tells us what to say. Let’s discover how He prays with us and for us.
One of the first things we must bring to light here is that we are told to do everything in the Spriit: walk in the Spirit, sing in the Spirit, and pray in the Spirit.
Galatians 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
1 Corinthians 14:15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Ephesians 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Ephesians 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Jude makes it perfectly clear that praying in the Spirit keeps us in the love of God. When the Spirit leads, we have mercy as the LORD has mercy for us, we snatch people from the fire as the LORD snatched us out of the fire, and we hate evil as the LORD hates evil.
Jude 1:17-23
But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Romans 8 is where we find the Spirit interceding on our behalf. The Spirit teaches us how to pray, knows what we need to pray for, and intercedes on our behalf. The Holy Spirit intercedes on behalf of all the saints, sending word to our Father in the midst of our prayers when we just don’t know how. The Holy Spirit prays with us and for us.
Romans 8: 26-27
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Romans 8 is such a powerful chapter in that it reminds us that we are never alone. It reminds us that the enemy is a liar. There is no condemnation for the Saints! We are worthy of God’s love. We have been redeemed! No one can separate us from the love of God. Even when we don’t know what to say, we are too tired, we are too heartbroken in tears, the Spirit knows what to say for us and is right there with us, always. And, He speaks according to the will of God on our behalf. We are constantly connected to God through the Holy Spirit He shares with us.
Romans 8:28-39
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.