THE ROLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN PRAYER

Speaker: Pastor Henry Tobin-West

The ministry of the Holy Spirit is multifaceted; He has a role to play in every area of our lives. The Holy Spirit has a very important role to play in prayers (Romans 8:25-26). The Holy Spirit helps us intercede to God the Father because we do not know of all what we should pray for, even if we know how to pray.

 As humans, we pray only according to the five senses of the physical; which is a limitation for we do not see beyond the natural. The Holy Spirit helps us contact those things that are outside the reach of our natural senses because the physical things are controlled by the spiritual which is a greater realm. As God Himself, the Holy Spirit prays for us according to the will of God concerning us (1corinthians 2:9-10). (Hebrew 9:24) Jesus Christ makes intercession for us before the father in heaven. God gave us the earth for dominion; as thus, He needs a human body to perform administer His will on earth and that is the reason Jesus came in human flesh to fulfill God’s work for us (psalm 115:16). Post-ascension of Christ, our flesh is needed in prayers as keys for God to act for we are the bodies of Christ here on earth (Hebrews 10:1-5) but the flesh needs to be incorporated with the spirit to pray out the will of God and as a sign, we pray in unknown tongues (1corinthians 14:2). When we pray in an unknown tongue, the Holy Spirit speaks mysteries through us unto God in an encoded language only God understands except we are given revelation of it. Praying in unknown tongues builds us spiritually (1corinthians 14:4, 14). It helps us connect our spirits to the Spirit of God in prayers according to God’s will. The Holy Spirit prays for us in the prayer language of God. Praying in the spirit connects us to the supernatural realm of mysteries and there the powers of the enemy are effectively destroyed.

The ministry of Christ in us concerning prayers is accomplished when we pray to the Father in Christ’s name as the Holy Spirit gives us utterance. In every situation we pray for, when we pray in the spirit, He connects us to the perfect solution from God the Father concerning that situation. Praying in unknown tongues is the prime means of praying for people and events we don’t even know have or will occur. As Christians, it is important to discover our individual prayer languages in the spirit which comes as a gift upon the baptism of the Holy Ghost.