Life Capsule for Today 14th Mar, 2024
Theme: Consistency in Prayer (5)
Topic: Engaging the Prayer Generator within
Memory Verse for the week: 1Th 5:17: Pray without ceasing.
Today’s Reading:Rom 8:26
26 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.
27 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.
1Cor 14:14-15
14 If I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unproductive.
15 What should I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing praises with my spirit, but I will also sing praises with my mind.
Words of the Ministry
Yesterday we saw the ministry of the Holy Spirit as he aids us in prayer, revealing to us the mind of God and helping us ensure we pray the will of God which would not only lead to an answered prayer but also increase our staying power in prayer. Today I like to
further comment on the ministry of the holy Spirit as I would be describing him as a prayer generator based on today’s sharing. We have previously learnt that the Holy Spirit dwells in our Spirit that the saints are priests and that prayer is a spiritual service to God, having said that we can further say that as Christians our prayers are meant to be spiritual sacrifice to God in our Spirit. As we pray, we realize the natural weakness of the human mind expressed through our limited language and small mind. After investing some time in prayer, we seem to have exhausted our prayer list or the request gets monotonous, at such times we may become weary not knowing what to do, the bible teaches us that that is the ministry of the Holy Spirit, he is to make intercessions through us using our faculty with groanings that can’t be uttered.
The phrase “groanings that can’t be uttered” means the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say. Through the ministry of the holy Spirit within us, we pray words that we don’t understand in our natural senses but we pray unto God, that is, we pray in tongues which is a gift of the Holy Spirit, the secret use being for prayer and God interpreting it accordingly to mean what it means in the Spirit and using same to meet our various needs. Some may argue saying to pray in the Spirit is not to pray in tongues, while I believe praying in the Spirit is not limited to praying in tongues just as we can rejoice, love, sing or take decision in the Spirit meaning something else but contextually, to pray in the Spirit here is to pray in tongues as our second reading further proves stating that when we pray in the Spirit, our mind is unproductive and in 1 Cor 14.2, it says we speak mysteries to God.
Saints, to build up our staying power and consistency in prayer therefore requires we are baptized in the Holy Spirit and we have the gift of Tongues. The gift of tongue helps our infirmity of not knowing what to pray, it helps overcome selfishness and self-centeredness in praying and it help to build our faith. If you do not have the gift of tongues, pray asking the Lord for it or approach the Church so that the leaders could pray for you to receive the gift. Pray using the tongues of the Spirit and you would not only record several victories in prayer but you would also become more consistent in prayers. May the Lord grant us light. Join us next week Sunday the 24th of March for Peniel Encounter.
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