The Helper - The Spirit of Intercession (notes)

The Helper - The Spirit of Intercession

Romans 8:26-27

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 out hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

The Holy Spirit

• Helps us in our time of need. The role of the Holy Spirit is to come along our side and help us in every situation. He helps us in our weakness. As humans we are weak but He is strong and able to help us in every situation.
• Says to be strong in the Lord. So our power to overcome anything evil is in the Lord and the power of His might.

We Do Not Know What We Ought To Pray For

• We don’t know the way to pray for situations because we are limited in understanding but God knows all things. So when we pray in the Spirit He comes along our side to help us pray in line with the will of God.
• We lack understanding, wisdom and power to pray so the Spirit helps us to know.

When I Don’t Know

• How to pray I pray in the Spirit and the Holy Spirit takes my prayer and through intercession presents it the way it needs to be presented.
• What words to use I use spiritual language (tongues) that the Holy Spirit understands.

Romans 8:26 (The Message)

Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition , and keeps us present before God. That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.

Intercession

• Means to intervene on behalf of another. This is what the Holy Spirit does for believers. He comes along our side and helps us to pray in a way that takes our experience and presents it before God in a way that is right.
• Sometimes the Holy Spirit intercedes for us in a situation. We might be going through a hard time and as we pray in the Spirit we find ourselves rising above the situation and we see things from heaven’s perspective.

The Holy Spirit intercedes for us with groanings to deep for utterance. Groaning is what the Holy Spirit does in the human spirit when someone is in a difficult time. It could be someone we know or don’t know or you. Groaning is travail in the Spirit, when we feel the heart of God for a situation, person or place.

When The Spirit prays through us we are praying in line with the heart of God. Intercession is what Paul is talking about. The Holy Spirit intercedes through the person praying in the Spirit. I could be praying for someone or myself.

No One Can Put Into Words

• All the pain in the world at any given moment, so in intercession, the Spirit gives us a language to help us offer prayers in a way that is God like.
• The great privilege it is to be able to talk with the Almighty Supreme Ruler of the universe.

It Is A Great Honor to be able to communicate with the one who created the galaxies with His Word. The Holy Spirit monitors every baby who cries on the planet, every woman who cries for a lost child, every man who can not make enough money to provide for his family.