We do not know what we should
pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with
groanings which cannot be uttered. —Romans 8:26
“When we are born again of
God and are indwelt by the Spirit of God, He expresses for us the unutterable. “He,”
the Holy Spirit in you, “makes intercession for the saints according to the
will of God” (Romans 8:27). And God searches your heart, not to know what your
conscious prayers are, but to find out what the prayer of the Holy Spirit is. The
Spirit of God uses the nature of the believer as a temple in which to offer His
prayers of intercession. “…your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit…” […] Have
we come to realize that our “body is the temple of the Holy Spirit”? If so, we
must be careful to keep it undefiled for Him. We have to remember that our
conscious life, even though only a small part of our total person, is to be
regarded by us as a “temple of the Holy Spirit.”” CHAMBERS
(John 14:26) Jesus said, “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the
Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your
remembrance all things that I said to you.” We needed a Spiritual transplant to
live our new life. In Ephesians 1 it
says we are sealed with the Holy Spirit. In our day to day living, we are personally
unaware of the presence and work of the Holy Spirit in us. Others can see the impact of His presence in
us. (Romans 8:1) “There is
therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk
according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.” We often quote the first part of this verse
and ignore the second part. We tend to
minimize the importance of the role of the Spirit in our lives and think of our
new life in terms of what we can personally do to be holy, to live right.
When we are born again, we receive the
Spirit. If receiving the Spirit was not important to our
new birth, why would it happen at all? I
don’t pretend to understand it. I mean
if I had surgery and the doctor looked inside, he would not see the Spirit in
me. That is because this is a spiritual fact not
a physical one. But the manifestation of the
Spirit in my life should be evident to those I meet. A transformed life. No longer conformed to this world, but
transformed by faith and the work of the Spirit in me. I don’t have to understand how I can press on
these keys and there are words formed on the screen in front of me. But I press them and see the words that were
in my mind appear on the screen and use that capability to tell the world about
Jesus. Let the Spirit do His work in you,
let your light shine and tell the world about Jesus through your transformed life.
ELGIN
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