P.R.A.Y.E.R. - Empowered
While I was preparing this week for the “E” in P.R.A.Y.E.R., I ran across another acronym that is fantastic and “spot on” for the topic in this blog:
P.R.A.Y.E.R. - Prayer Releases All of Your Eternal Resources
I could just “drop the mic” and end it right here (ha) but, I can’t resist the opportunity to elaborate on this further. As clever as this is, it still begs the question of “what are the eternal resources of prayer?”
Well, going back to my “less clever” acronym, the E in P.R.A.Y.E.R is “Empowered.” More specifically, through prayer we are “empowered by the Holy Spirit.”
Romans 8:26 helps us to understand what this means:
8:26 In the same way, the Holy Spirit helps us where we are weak. We do not know how to pray or what we should pray for, but the Holy Spirit prays to God for us with sounds that cannot be put into words
The Holy Spirit is our helper and Jesus tells us this in the Gospel of John.
John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things…
Knowing that the Holy Spirit is going to help us pray should be very encouraging to us. We are all going to struggle with prayer sometimes but the greatest teacher that we could ever have lives within us. We don’t have to go looking for a tutor and make an appointment.
How does the Spirit help us pray?
He leads us into God’s presence
He helps us know what to pray for - The Holy Spirit prompts us to pray in the direction that God wants to take us.
By praying for us - as it says above in Romans 8:26 the Holy Spirit prays to God for us with sounds that cannot be put into words
By giving us a proper perspective on prayer:
Prayer is not about bringing God into our world with a shopping list, it is a way of God bringing us into His world so that we can be exposed to His heart and mind and become part of His eternal purposes.
Stay hungry,
Big E