Help Me Holy Spirit

January 12, 2016

Help Me Holy Spirit

And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.

Romans 8:26

Do we ever out grow our need for the Holy Spirit? Of course not, but a look at the current literature available suggests prayer is a skill we can master on our own. I searched Amazon for “How to Pray” and received over 4,300 responses. I searched CBD.com for prayer and received over 15,000 responses. Yes, there is much we can learn on the subject of prayer; after all, I am one of the contributors to the lexicon of prayer with my, First Think – Then Pray. But we never, ever, want to lose sight of this absolute truth: the substance of our prayers is receiving, recognizing and relying solely on the Holy Spirit.

This truth goes against the grain of our cultural upbringing that has taught us self-reliance. We are supposed to learn and master skills as evidence of our maturity and our superiority over our environment. Even so, the beginning point to every prayer, from the first day you believed in Christ Jesus until you draw your last breath on earth is, “I don’t know how to pray. Help me Holy Spirit.”

Yes, God designed us with an intellect; we are not asked to check our brain at the door when we come to God through faith in Jesus. Yes, the scriptures do teach us that we are transformed by the renewing of our minds. (Romans 12:2) However, the evidence of God renewing our minds is in our instinctive turning to the Holy Spirit before we do anything and especially before we pray. This was the counsel of the Apostle James when he challenged those who would dare make plans without first seeking God’s will: “What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that” (James 4:15. Full context James 4: 13-16).

We all will do well to make the first line of EVERY prayer, “Help me Holy Spirit.” Then let us rest in His hands and allow the Holy Spirit to manifest his presence. Then we let him lead us in the rest of our prayer.

 Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com. The BLOG is also available on Amazon Kindle, by subscription.

Publications by Alex M. Knight:

·        Seeking the Life in Christ, Meditations on the New Testament and Psalms has been published and is now available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

·        The second edition of  First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

·        Meditations on The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ has been released as an e-book on Amazon Kindle.

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188.