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The Spirit Helps Us, January 18
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
.
The Holy Spirit indites all genuine prayer. I have learned to know that in
all my intercessions the Spirit intercedes for me and for all saints; but His
intercessions are according to the will of God, never contrary to His will.
“The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities”; and the Spirit, being God, knoweth
the mind of God; therefore in every prayer of ours for the sick, or for other
needs, the will of God is to be regarded. “For what man knoweth the things
of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God
knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God” (
1 Corinthians 2:11
).
If we are taught of God, we shall pray in conformity to His revealed
will, and in submission to His will which we know not. We are to make
supplication according to the will of God, relying on the precious Word, and
believing that Christ not only gave Himself for but to His disciples. The
record declares, “He breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the
Holy Ghost” (
John 20:22
).
Jesus is waiting to breathe upon all His disciples, and give them the
inspiration of His sanctifying Spirit, and transfuse the vital influence from
Himself to His people. He would have them understand that henceforth they
cannot serve two masters. Their lives cannot be divided. Christ is to live in
His human agents, and work through their faculties, and act through their
capabilities. Their will must be submitted to His will, they must act with His
Spirit that it may be no more they that live, but Christ that liveth in them.
Jesus is seeking to impress upon them the thought that in giving His Holy
Spirit He is giving to them the glory which the Father has given Him, that He
and His people may be one in God. Our way and will must be in submission
to God’s will, knowing that it is holy, just, and good.—
The Signs of the
Times, October 3, 1892
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