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HOLY SPIRIT, OUR INTERCESSOR
(Romans 8:18-27—Preacher: Ps Paw Liang)

How is your prayer life? Is prayer hard for you? Do you sometimes feel you don’t know what to pray? And How to pray? 


We need the Holy Spirit, our Advocate to pray alongside us—as our Intercessor!

1.Holy Spirit restore “the hope” in us and give us courage to hope.

Hope is believing in the beautiful future based on the promise of God. Standing on the presence reality sometimes we might feel hopeless and not knowing what and how to pray. The Holy Spirit will instill in us the faith and enable us to come to the Lord with ‘a childlike confidence’ dare to ask, trusting God has the power over our future and He will give when we ask. The Holy Spirit turns us from hopeless to hopeful, from prayer-less to prayerful.

2. Holy Spirit Teaches Us What to Pray
The Holy Spirit gives us strength and endurance to bear the infirmity within us: physical pain, mental depression, spiritual conflict /poverty and helping us to overcome the trial (external)—the trials may not always be persecutions but for today’s situations it may be things that distract us from God—the demands from the work place or life that trying to snap away our time and attention from God and from our family! The Spirit will strengthen us and enable us to come to the Lord in prayer despite the pressure from the “trials” and “infirmity” within us. Despite the distractions from the world, the Holy Spirit inspires us to desire things of God and teach us what to pray. The Spirit helps us to identify our needs based on the groaning in our souls so we can ask according to our needs.

3. Holy Spirit broadens our hearts to include others
And as we open our hearts, make time to pray . . . the Holy Spirit ‘instill the desire in us” and “prompting the concerns for us to pray” We begin to include others in our prayers. Praying for others and the concerns of the world becomes easy.

4. Holy Spirit Gives Us Courage to Ask for Greater Things
The Holy Spirit broaden our minds and our hearts, give us hope and courage to ask for greater things from God. We will not be restricted by our limitation but begin to ask according to God’s will and promises.

5. Holy Spirit, Our Intercessor
We can be assured for all He has taught us to pray, Holy Spirit is praying along side us as our Intercessor. As our Advocate, He teaches us to speak for our needs, and He also speaks to God on our behalf. Holy Spirit intercedes for God to grant us strength during time of trials; and to give us the way out. Holy Spirit listens to the groaning in our hearts help us to identify our needs and to ask God to meet our needs. Holy Spirit intercedes for the great things of God on behalf of us.

The presence of the Holy Spirit helps us to delight in prayer as He restores the
hope, instill the desire for the things of God teaching us to ask according to our
needs and the will of God. As our Advocate He also intercede for us and
make us an intercessor for others.

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