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Praying In The Spirit ~ Part Three

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Romans 8:26 says, “Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought…” That is why we need to be attentive to the Holy Spirit’s leading as we pray.

Part of spiritual warfare is standing in the gap as stated in Ezekiel 22:30. The enemy looks for ways to break through against us. Isaiah 7:6 says, “…let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and set a king over them…” In context this was written about Judah, but we can apply it personally.

In Galatians 6:1 Paul wrote that we are to restore one caught in sin, “…in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.” We don’t know when the person will be triggered to fall back into sin. The Holy Spirit does and He can alert us to pray in the moment of the need. Our part is to be attentive to His leading.

Praying In The Spirit ~ Part Two

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Habakkuk is a great example for us to journal. I’ve been journaling since December 1976. I use a blank journal. I love to circle, underline, or square parts of verses and insights the Holy Spirit gives me. I write the key word or topic in the side margin. It is like a workbook. All my writings come from those insights.

Jeremiah 33:3 says, “Call to Me, and I will answer, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” Revelational insight is His strategic tool for effective spiritual warfare. Insight that is inaccessible except through the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 2:10 Amplified says that the Holy Spirit, “…searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God (the divine counsels and things hidden and beyond man’s scrutiny).”

The Holy Spirit will often put words in my mouth as I am praying for someone ~ words of wisdom, phrases of Scripture, or encouragement to share.