Subject: who benefits most from prayer? |
Bible Note: Hi CDBJ Now you are talking about intercessory prayer. This is where we plead the case of someone else. In Romans 8:26 PC Nelson who was a noted liguist said that the Greek actually implies "with groanings that cannot be uttered in articulate speech." These groanings come from your spirit (from within)but to be effective has to come through the lips. Wilford Reidt said : "There will always be the need for the Holy Spirit to interceed with groanings. We may KNOW the will of God but only the Holy Spirit knows how to effectively present the need. There are circumstances in which we are not sure of how to pray. We need the groaning of the Holy Spirit in intercession." So this is for when we don't know how to pray in whatever situation. It is also for when we have a burden for someone and in most cases we don't know why we have the burden for a specific person, but then we can pray as per Romans 26, 27 and you will find many times afterwards that that person was in a particularly difficult situation or a crisis situation or whatever and we have then been the vessel used to basically rescue them from the situation. Normally in our own lives when we are unsure how or what to pray it is because we are seeking God's will in our lives (prayer of consecration) as I said before, however, if the solution to our problem is in the Word then we must stand on the Word and pray the Word. I mean if we are looking for employment God's Word provides for it because His Word says that a man who does not support his family is worse than an infidel and His Word also says that a workman is worthy of His meat. So we know that it is His will that we work. However, God knows which job would be the perfect one for us, so we need to leave that up to Him. Have a great day too! Brenda |