Led by His SpiritSample

Over the years, I’ve been blessed by the intercession of the Pastor’s Prayer Partners group here at Lancaster Baptist. Having friends who pray for us is a great blessing. Many of us turn to these friends when we are facing difficult circumstances or trials and ask them to join us in seeking God’s help. It is a wonderful blessing to have such prayer support, and there is nothing wrong with asking others to pray for us and with us. It is a real encouragement to know that we are not alone in our praying.

But as Christians, we have a far greater resource and partner in our praying—the Holy Spirit of God. All human prayer is necessarily limited. We lack a full understanding of our circumstances, and we thus do not always know what the best solution to our problem is. Sometimes when we are convinced we know what God “should” do, we are completely off base. But our sincere prayers, offered in submission to the will of God, are always heard and helped, even when they are misguided.

The Holy Spirit knows what is in our hearts and hears our sincere cries, even when they are not fully informed by His knowledge. In God’s grace, our prayers are interpreted to what is best. Even better they are joined in by the Holy Spirit. And His intercession for us is not casual. Sometimes when we ask someone to pray with us about a need, their prayers are not intense. But the Holy Spirit is intensely involved in our prayer. It should give us great confidence to know that the Holy Spirit will take our limited prayers and perfectly express them to the Father.