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The Spirit’s Intercession, March 14
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.
Romans 8:26
.
We must not only pray in Christ’s name, but by the inspiration of the
Holy Spirit. This explains what is meant when it is said that the Spirit
“maketh intercession for us, with groanings which cannot be uttered.”
Such prayer God delights to answer. When with earnestness and intensity
we breathe a prayer in the name of Christ, there is in that very intensity
a pledge from God that He is about to answer our prayer “exceeding
abundantly above all that we ask or think.”
The Holy Spirit will be given to those who seek for its power and
grace and will help our infirmities when we would have an audience with
God. Heaven is open to our petitions, and we are invited to come “boldly
unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help
in time of need” (
Hebrews 4:16
). We are to come in faith, believing that
we shall obtain the very things we ask of Him.
We may commit the keeping of our souls to God as unto a faithful
Creator, not because we are sinless, but because Jesus died to save just
such erring, faulty creatures as we are, thus expressing His estimate of the
value of the human soul. We may rest upon God, not because of our own
merit, but because the righteousness of Christ will be imputed to us....
There are rich promises for us in the Word of God. The plan of
salvation is ample. It is no narrow, limited provision that has been made
for us. We are not obliged to trust in the evidence that we had a year or a
month ago, but we may have the assurance today that Jesus lives and is
making intercession for us.
God does not leave His erring children who are weak in faith, and
who make mistakes. The Lord hearkens and hears their prayer and their
testimony. Those who look unto Jesus day by day and hour by hour,
who watch unto prayer, are drawing nigh to Jesus. Angels with wings
outspread wait to bear their contrite prayers to God, and to register them
in the books of heaven.
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