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
We realize that we are energized
by the Holy Spirit for prayer; and we know what it is to pray in accordance
with the Spirit; but we don’t often realize that the Holy Spirit Himself prays
prayers in us which we cannot utter ourselves. 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…” (1 Corinthians
6:19). When Jesus Christ cleansed the temple, “…He would not allow anyone to
carry wares through the temple” (Mark 11:16). The Spirit of God will not allow
you to use your body for your own convenience. Jesus ruthlessly cast out
everyone who bought and sold in the temple, and said, “My house shall be called
a house of prayer…. But you have made it a ‘den of thieves’ ” (Mark 11:17).
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.” He will be responsible for the unconscious part which we
don’t know, but we must pay careful attention to and guard the conscious part
for which we are responsible.
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