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The Topic of Open Heavens for 10th August
2023 Is “Praying in The Spirit”
MEMORISE: Jude
1:20
But
ye beloved, building up yourself in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy
Ghost.
READ: Ephesians 6:18-20
18 praying
always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to
this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—
19 and
for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly
to make known the mystery of the gospel,
20 for
which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I
ought to speak.
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HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY
When
I was a younger Christian, 1 Thessalonians 5:17 which says, “Pray without
ceasing” used to baffle me until the Lord explained it to me. I used to wonder
how it was possible to pray without ceasing. What would I be saying? The Lord
then let me know that the only way I could pray without ceasing was to do so in
the Spirit. This implies that God expects every believer to pray in the Spirit
all day. Believe me honestly, you don’t know all you truly need.
Even if you argue that you know all that you need at this
moment, do you know what will happen in the next two hours? If you don’t know
what will happen, then how will you pray about it? That is why you have the
Holy Spirit to pray those prayers through you. You ask for what you want with
your words; the Holy Spirit will help you ask for what you ought to have when
you pray in tongues. Without the Holy Spirit, you cannot pray correctly.
Romans
8:26 affirms this: Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we
know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh
intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Ephesians 5:18 says
further: And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the
Spirit. Alcoholics will tell you that they are always craving more and more
alcohol. That is how you should become addicted to praying in the Spirit.
The
more you pray in the Spirit, the more filled you would be. You would realise
that it is difficult to stop praying sometimes. As you pray, you get more and
more engulfed in the Spirit and before you know it, everything you do would be
influenced by Him. Galatians 5:17 says that the flesh and the Spirit are always
at war.
The
more you pray in the Spirit, the more energized your spirit man would be to win
that war against the flesh, so it becomes easy to put it under (1 Corinthians
9:27). You would begin to long for things of the Spirit rather than those of
the flesh.
Bible in one year: Jeremiah
22-24
Hymn 8 I Need Thee Every Hour
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