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#1 Candice

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Posted 11 January 2015 - 06:07 PM

What does this mean to you?

To me, it is not just the will, the mind and soul, but just waiting to be prompted by the Spirit as to what to pray, as in for a particular person and a potential for specifics. But, also, to just be able to rest in knowing you can't use words alone and kinda be able to just say ,"I don't have words. Please pray for me Father." The world is becoming so evil so quickly; like overnight it multiplies. I am overwhelmed and can't just use my mind to pray. I know the verses that speak if praying in the Spirit. But, I just come up DUMBfounded!
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Posted 12 January 2015 - 12:35 PM

I do think one can "pray in the spirit" at any time, but there are times when words fail, the situation is mind numbing, and one just does not know what to say or request.  Some might say that speaking in tongues is praying in the spirit, but I don`t know about that.  I do remember lying in the floor beside my dead wife, overwhelmed by grief, confusion, hurt, pain, and a sense of loss, that I could only cry and moan.  I did not know what to pray for and certainly didn`t know what to say.  I figure God kew my heart and what I needed.....I certainly didn`t.  God says the burden will not be more than we can bear, but some of them get pretty close to the edge.  When we just open our heart to the Lord and bare our soul before Him, there really needs to be no words.  He already knows and is already there with us helping to keep the load from crushing us.

 

It is amazing to look back over life and to see where I was coping with a problem or situation, and prayed to the Lord for relief...asking for certain things or options to solve the problems.  Many of them were created by myself.  When the solution came, it was nothing even close to what I had requested as a solution and usually was better than anything I could have known to ask for. Maybe praying in the spirit may have something to do with asking God for help and then not offering Him solutions that we think are the ones needed for that particular problem.  Maybe just opening one`s heart and allowing God to help as only He can is part of a spirit prayer life. 

 

To answer your question....I`m not certain what praying in the spirit actually is.  These are just some thoughts that crossed my mind as I looked back over situations in my life and how I didn`t even know how to even identify what to ask for....and God just "settled in around me" and solved the problem in ways that I could never have dreamed of on my own.

 

Praise God for who He is and what He has done for all of us,

 

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Posted 13 January 2015 - 05:23 AM

I can identify with what both of you said. It also helped clarify how I see praying in the Spirit. I want to say that I'm aware of Him during those times but I don't think that's true. The Spirit is always with us interceding and guiding whether we aware or not. It's all about God's power not ours. At the same time I think we go in and out of the Spirit depending whether we are open to Him, so it must have something to do with yielding to Him also. Maybe I'm still confused.. I do know I've been flooded with the love of Christ and I associate that with being in the Spirit. I want more.

 

I too mourn over this world unable to grasp the evil, so I cling to Jesus knowing each day's passing brings us closer to His return. 


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