Likewise, the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know WHAT we should pray for as we OUGHT, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession

On our own, we absolutely do not know WHAT and HOW to say in prayer and in the ministry of the word (utterance).

 

BUT when we rely on God, yielding to His Spirit through Christ, we acknowledge our inherent limitations in the flesh.

We cry out in our spirit saying:

·         If you don’t personally go with us, don’t make us leave this place.

·         If your Spirit does not pray through us, we do not want to pray

·         If you do not give us the right words and such wisdom, we don’t want to speak.

·         If you do not send us, we do not want to go.

 

It is in this brokenness, in the dwindling of the mortal man that the grace of God fully manifests.

This is a good brokenness! It is a Godly brokenness and happens when all our human effort has failed us, having tried to gain righteousness through obeying the law and failed, and then realising that the washing, the sanctification and justification is by grace through faith.

This faith comes by hearing, and that hearing is a response to God’s voice. In other words, God is the initiator and perfector of our faith. He initiates and sets the whole process in motion. And having initiated this faith, He gives us the willingness and the ability to obey and continue in that faith. This makes it plain that the grace that we experience has nothing to do with our own efforts.

As children of faith, our calling is by the appointment of the Spirit. It is not by our outside look, genealogy, physical ancestry or human input. It is a calling into the Melchizedek order of things. Priests, kings, peace, without genealogy, without beginning and end, without limitation, of the Spirit and sustained by the Spirit.

God, we thank you for your faithfulness.

Thank you for your limitless power.

Though we are inherently severely limited, you have made us holy in Christ and given us your limitless power and invited us to be the body of your son Jesus.

You have fathered and identified us by the tagging of your Spirit.

We have a foretaste of the glory to come through Christ from a far above position. We are gratefully thankful that we can make declarations from this spiritually authoritative position.

The WHAT and HOW of our declarations are directed by your Spirit.

What a privilege and honour that your Spirit may speak your mind out through us.

Anoint our tongues, anoint our lips, anoint our mouths we pray.

Anoint and commission your prophets this day we pray.

 

 

God, we thank you for your faithfulness.

Thank you for your limitless power.

Though we are inherently severely limited, you have made us holy in Christ and given us your limitless power and invited us to be the body of your son Jesus.

You have fathered and identified us by the tagging of your Spirit.

We have a foretaste of the glory to come through Christ from a far above position. We are gratefully thankful that we can make declarations from this spiritually authoritative position.

The WHAT and HOW of our declarations are directed by your Spirit.

What a privilege and honour that your Spirit may speak your mind out through us.

Anoint our tongues, anoint our lips, anoint our mouths we pray.