Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I should die before I wake
I pray the Lord my soul to take
I would be pretty safe wagering that this was
one of the very first prayers you learned as a child. It is a very good prayer and if you have
children I am sure you taught this prayer to them!
Prayer is one of the vitally important
disciplines of effective Christians so the earlier you learn to prayer or teach
children to pray the better it will be!
Since I will be calling the FredWes family to
prayer in both services this Sunday morning I thought it wise to share three
powerful portions of Scripture pertaining to prayer and pull some principles
from them.
Yesterday I shared Ephesians 6:10-12 and
shared this truth from those verses: We Are Armed For Prayer.
This morning I post the second prayer
principle and it is found in Romans 8:26-35.
WE ARE ASSISTED
IN PRAYER
“In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our
weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself
intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our
hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for
God’s people in accordance with the will of God. And we know that in all
things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been
called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also
predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be
the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he
predestined, he also called; those he called, he also
justified; those he justified, he also glorified. What, then, shall we say
in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against
us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how
will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will
bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who
then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than
that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also
interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or
danger or sword?” Romans 8:26-35
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When
you pray the Holy Spirit will strengthen you and guide your praying.
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When
you pray the Holy Spirit will intercede for you with God according to God’s
will. He directs our prayers according to how God is working in you and in your
circumstances.
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Jesus
also intercedes for you from His position at the right hand of God.
Knowing that the Holy Spirit is assisting and
interceding as you pray should give you courage!
Knowing that Jesus is also interceding as you
pray should strengthen your courage!
Pray away!
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