 To pray in the Holy Spirit is to pray according to the word and the will of God. That is why every single Christian needs to pray in the Holy Spirit. If you're ready to learn how to flow with the Holy Spirit in prayer, I want you to write in the comment section right now, lead me, Holy Spirit. Let that be your public prayer. Write it now, lead me, Holy Spirit. First, I wanna take a look at what it means to pray in the Holy Spirit. And to be clear, I'm not in this message talking about the gift of speaking in tongues. Now, I do believe that every Christian should pray in tongues. I think that often we misapply some of the teachings of Paul, especially because we don't take into consideration the context. But that's another message for another time. I wanna take a look at this phrase here found in Jude chapter one, verses 20 and 21. And often people do read this portion of scripture as if it applies to the gift of speaking in tongues. But it actually talks about something else. But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. We also see this mentioned in Ephesians chapter six, verse 18. Pray in the spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere. There again, we see that phrase. Now, the term praying in the spirit in Jude one, 20 and 21 means the same thing as in Ephesians chapter six, verse 18. These two uses of the term praying in the Holy Spirit differ from what we see in first Corinthians chapter 14, verse 15, where we see Paul the apostle, of course, speaking specifically on the gift of speaking in tongues. But here's a little something I wrote that hopefully will help you understand this concept of praying in the Holy Spirit. To pray in the spirit is to desire an agreement with heaven. To speak aloud those petitions which originate in the will of the Father. True prayer in the spirit begins in union with God. Praying in the Holy Spirit is praying in harmony with the will of the Holy Spirit, with the guidance of the Holy Spirit and in the power of the Holy Spirit. To pray in the Holy Spirit is to pray in cooperation with the person of the Holy Spirit. To pray according to his will. To pray according to his leading. And in order to this, to do this, we have to be sensitive to the person of the Holy Spirit. We have to be listening for that voice. You see, the Bible describes hypocrites who pray. And when hypocrites pray, they receive the fullness of their reward for their superficial motives. That's all they ever receive. The praises of man, the recognition of people. They receive things that, as I said, are superficial. But when you and I pray in the spirit, we are praying from a connection with God, the scripture tells us. He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him. That means you and I are in union with God. You and I are united as one with him. You and I are one with the person of the Holy Spirit. And it is out of that oneness that we pray. It is out of that connection that we pray. Many believers have this idea in their minds. And this is why, by the way, so many are discouraged when it comes to prayer. This is why so many look at prayer as if it's an obligation to fulfill instead of an opportunity to seize. Because they imagine that when they enter the place of prayer, that when they enter, I should say the posture of prayer because it's not necessarily limited to one room. So when you enter that posture of prayer, many times you're looking at it as if you are fighting to get God's attention. As if you're begging him to hear you. As if God is showing up to that prayer room just with real reservations and very hesitant and just kind of putting up with you and just barely patient with you. And maybe you imagine that you're just hanging by a thread that you're about to be given up on by God and that he doesn't really necessarily want to hear from you. That's not at all what the scripture describes. We in fact can come boldly before the throne room of God but that's the way you look at it. If you look at it as if you have to convince God to pay attention. If you look at it as if you have to convince God that you deserve an audience with him, well then you're gonna look at it as something that's quite exhausting and you're going to be exhausted even just thinking about it. In fact, you're going to exhaust yourself when you go to pray. So some believers when they go to pray, they imagine that God has his arms folded. He's kind of just glaring at them, maybe a scowl on his face and he just says, okay, what do you want? Why should I listen to you? Why do you deserve my attention? And in fact, many of the things that we do in our corporate gatherings are aimed at God as if he has to be persuaded to be involved with us. We have to jump high enough, shout loud enough, pray for long enough and then maybe we'll have his attention. Now to be clear, there's nothing wrong with shouting. There's nothing wrong with jumping and dancing and praising. There's nothing wrong with praying for extended periods of time. But those things in and of themselves don't necessarily connect us with God because we're already connected with him. In other words, I don't pray to connect with God. I pray from connection with God. And if you realize that you're not praying to connect with God, but rather from connection with God, this produces in you a confidence when you pray, a faith when you pray, so that when you seek him, you approach him knowing, I already have his attention. He's already looking at me. He's already listening to me. I'm not showing up trying to persuade a reluctant God to give me an audience, but rather I approach God knowing that I already have his attention. I'm the apple of his eye. He's looking at me. He's thinking about me. His thoughts toward me are more than I can ever count. He loves me. He's joyful to see me. He's pleased with me. Why? Because I am his child. Now this is true, believe it or not, even when you've made a mistake. Now that doesn't mean that our sins are excused and that we should go on sinning. Of course that would be to abuse the grace of God, which might be a demonstration that you don't love him in the first place. But rather when we approach him, we know that he will forgive us. We know that he will receive us. And this liberates us to pray as we should. So some believers don't pray in the spirit because they think that they have to work up a connection with God. Other believers don't pray in the spirit because they imagine that prayer is a points-based system. That if they pray for 10 minutes, they climb higher up the ladder. If they only prayed for five minutes, well now they're lower on the ladder. If they prayed every day for a week, now they're closer to God. If they missed a day of prayer during that week, that undoes everything that they experienced during that week. Now it may affect you in your confidence. It may affect you in your own perspective. It may affect you in your faith when you go to pray. But in terms of that connection that you have with God through the Holy Spirit, that's been established. So when the scripture tells us to pray in the spirit, it's telling us to pray in sync with the desires and the nature of the person of the Holy Spirit to pray in sync with God. So it's not religious repetition. It's not a script that we repeat. In fact, many times when Christians approach prayer, they're very systematic in the way they approach the things of the spirit. And to be clear, I'm not saying that we mustn't be organized. In fact, the scripture tells us clearly that God is a God of order. And everything that God does has structure and organization to it. But rather, this is to say that the structure is not in place so that God will pay attention to us. The structure is in place so that we can become reflections of God and so that we can remove distractions from ourselves. But still, we come to prayer sometimes thinking it's all a system. And I know that when I first began to pray, I was very rigid in the way that I approached my relationship with God. I would often say, you know, I'm gonna pray for one hour. And then I would pray and pray and pray. And then I would look at the clock and discover that only five minutes had passed and I would become discouraged. And I would feel like I was failing. I would ask questions like, can I stand up when I pray? Do I have to pace when I pray? Can I lie down when I pray? Or is that disrespectful? Do I have to speak out loud when I pray? Can I think my prayers for that matter? Can I think and pray in tongues at the same time? Or can I pray in tongues in my mind? This is how much I overthought it. These were my questions. I obsessed about these details. And then I would wonder, okay, well, when do I pray to intercede for others? When do I pray prayers of supplication? That is, prayers for my own needs. When do I pray in tongues? When do I do spiritual warfare? When do I pray for the nations? And when do I just fellowship? When do I just worship? When do I read the word of God? When do I stay there and just be silent? When do I meditate on the word? And all of these things were running through my mind and I was trying to find the formula to prayer. My friend, prayer is not a formula, it's a flow. Prayer is not a formula, it's a flow. In fact, write that in the comment section. And I am curious, am I describing you in any way maybe some of the ways that you think about prayer? Let me know. So prayer is not a formula, it's a flow. We have to be led by the Holy Ghost when we pray. That's when I'm talking about this oneness, what I mean. That we're already united with Him. That we already have that connection. That He's already guiding us and leading us. And that if we would just set aside the distractions, if we would just stop being entangled in our own emotions and overthinking in paranoia and religious dogmon legalistic thinking, if we were to just lay that aside and focus on Jesus and ask for the leading of the Holy Spirit, that He would take us by the hand and guide us to the depths of prayer. Here's something I wrote that helped me to describe this oneness that I'm talking about. Oneness, as I am describing it here, is that flow of the Spirit that is so natural that you don't even know you're flowing. It's obedience inspired from such depth that you're not even aware that you're obeying. In moments like those, there is no gap of time between when the Spirit speaks and you respond. It just is. Move your hand, shift your eyes, tilt your head. It's so very natural. There's no thought given, no mechanics to be forced. It's just like that. When you realize oneness with the Holy Spirit, it's as though you are a member of a great body and the Spirit is the mind that controls even the most subtle of movements. Your movement becomes His movement. Your intent dissolves in God's will. Your presence and His presence become indistinguishable from one another. Indeed, you are joined with the Lord and in that union you find the beginning of true prayer. Now let me qualify that statement. Your presence and His presence become indistinguishable from one another. I'm not saying that you are Him. I'm not saying that He is you. I'm saying that you walk so closely with Him that people begin to see Jesus in you. That when you walk into rooms, you change the atmosphere simply by being there. What do I mean by change the atmosphere? You change the attitudes and the disposition of those who are there. You change the sense of what could be in the air. Sometimes there's tension in the air. Sometimes there's perversion in the air. And when you walk in as a born-again Spirit-filled believer who understands this flow with the Spirit, you understand that you're not just waiting to go to heaven, but that heaven lives in you. And when you walk into that room, you bring with you peace. You bring with you joy and clarity and holiness and the weight of that glory. When you begin to flow with the Holy Spirit in this way, you don't have to go chasing atmospheres. Atmospheres follow you. In fact, you don't have to chase atmospheres because you become one. You become a carrier of the glory of God. Galatians chapter five verse 17 says this, the sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other so that you are not free to carry out your good intentions. So what does it mean to flow with the flesh? That means to flow with selfish desires, sinful desires, secular desires. But to flow with the Spirit is to go with his desires, to move as he moves, so that now when you approach prayer, you're not trying to systemize it. You're not very rigid with it. It's not like a mechanic that needs to be forced or a gimmick or how shall I say a methodology that now needs to be put into application, but rather it becomes this relationship from which you flow out of and you hear the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking and he tells you, pray for that loved one now. Okay, now I'm moving you into a moment of worship. Now I want you to be still, be silent, listen for my voice. Now I want you to pray, intercessory prayers. Now I want you to pray against the powers of the enemy. Now you can make your supplication and you just sense this flow. When it comes to the move of the Holy Spirit, you can't fight him and you can't force him. In other words, you can't fight against what he wants to do and you can't force him to do what he doesn't. Instead, now you flow with his desires. Romans chapter eight, verses 26 to 28 says this, And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don't know what God wants us to pray for, but the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying. For the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will. And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. Go with me, as I said, to Romans eight, 26 to 28. I wanna break this down now. And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. Now we know that we have many weak points. And at first, this statement is a general statement. It's describing the fact that the Holy Spirit helps to fill in the gaps of our lack. So in those areas where maybe we lack patience, he helps us to become more patient. Where we lack love, he helps us to be more loving. And then an example is given. For example, we don't know what God wants us to pray for. Wasn't that the truth? Aside from the word of God, aside from the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we don't know what God wants us to pray for. That's why Jesus had to instruct us to pray because we don't always know how to speak aloud those petitions which originate in the will of the Father. And in fact, sometimes we pray out of the flesh. Did you know you can pray in the flesh? Did you know you can pray ungodly prayers? Think about the fact that atheists, when they're in enough trouble, atheists, when they find themselves in enough trouble, they pray. People of religions, they pray but to false gods, according to false ways, according to a false doctrine, they still pray. Skeptics pray. Unbelievers pray. Religious people pray. But that doesn't mean that they're necessarily praying in the Holy Spirit. And we as Christians can sometimes pray out of a different nature. We as Christians can sometimes pray out of the flesh. We pray out of emotion. Maybe somebody upsets us and we pray against that person. Now that doesn't necessarily mean that it has power. I know there's a lot of superstitious teaching around this topic and some people will tell you, well, you know, there's life and death and the power of the tongue. And they'll say that with the misapplication of the scripture. That's a different message for a different time. I'll just say this in short. We as believers don't have creative power. We have cultivating power. We cannot cause things to come into existence, but we can cause things to come into order. God allows us to speak as stewards but not as starters of creation. And so when you pray those prayers, those prayers only have as much power and authority as the will that's backing them. Let me say that again. Prayers only have as much power and authority as the will that is backing them. So yes, you may pray out of emotion against someone. Now that's ungodly. You shouldn't pray such things and it's a revelation of what's going on in your heart. We should repent of those things. We're also recognizing that we shouldn't necessarily fall for the superstitious teachings that would cause us to be afraid in that instance. You just repent, you say, I shouldn't have said that and then you move on. Furthermore, you may pray out of fear. Maybe we confuse sometimes worry and fear for prayer. In fact, worry is how your flesh prays. Worry is doubt spoken aloud. And sometimes we pray or we think we're praying, but really what we're doing is we're just worrying out loud and hoping that it accomplishes something. So none of us can accomplish anything via worry. And so sometimes we pray out of worry. Sometimes we pray out of emotion. Sometimes we pray out of anger. Sometimes we pray simply out of need. And while these aren't necessarily always bad, I mean, you can pray out of a need and God will meet that need because he loves us, but it's better to pray rather from the spirit. Not out of fear, not out of desperation, though desperation has its place, but to pray according to the will of the spirit, we pray according to the flow of that spirit. For example, we don't know what God wants us to pray for. So sometimes we pray from the outer shells of who we are, but the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. The Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. Think about that. And again, I think sometimes we just gloss over scripture and we don't really stop to consider the implications of what we just read, but the Holy Spirit prays for us, think about that. The Holy Spirit prays for you. The Holy Spirit loves you like no one else loves you. The Holy Spirit knows you like no one else knows you and he prays for you. He can pray for you with more effectiveness than anyone else can. He prays for you with more love than a parent prays for a child. He prays for you with more passion than a husband prays for a wife or a wife prays for a husband. And he offers these prayers on your behalf as perfected prayers. Prayers perfectly in line with the will of God for the scripture says in verse 27, and the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying for the Spirit pleads for us believers. Now this is a strong word pleads. In other words, there's this pooling, there's this yearning. He pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will. So picture this. There's a flow of a river and maybe you're not flowing as the river should cause you to flow. Maybe you're fighting against that current or you're moving off to the sides on the river banks and trying to get out. Well, the Holy Spirit, his prayers are like that current that pool you back in. He pleads for us according to God's will. He pleads for us in harmony with what God wills. So the Holy Spirit pulls us back to those places we need to be. He will not lose one of us. Those who are straying is not God capable of calling back a straying child. Is not Christ the perfect shepherd capable of bringing his sheep back into the fold. He will pull you back into the will. Not necessarily against your will but he will use circumstances. He will use conviction. He will use people. He will do whatever it takes to bring you back into alignment. This is what the Holy Spirit does. Have you ever, for example, maybe you experienced the season where you were lacking in your prayer life and you notice these dips and you notice that you're not reading as much as you should. You notice that you're not committing as much time to prayer as you should. And you notice that maybe old habits are starting to return. And then out of seemingly nowhere, let's say, for example, you started to notice the dip on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. You just notice that you're kind of going off track there and then out of nowhere on Friday, suddenly there's like this burst of spiritual energy where there's just this redirection. You get this renewed desire to pray. You get this renewed desire to read the word. You get this renewed desire to get back on track. That's the Holy Spirit's prayers coming into effect. He's helping to lead you back onto the right path. I call this random burst of spiritual energy and spiritual willpower because the Holy Spirit's pleading for us in harmony with God's own will. Aren't you thankful for the work of the Holy Spirit? I know I am. Verse 28, and we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. So we often quote that scripture. God works everything out together. Well, how does he do that? He does that through the prayers of the Holy Spirit. He does that through the poolings and the pleadings of the person of the Holy Spirit. So you look at Luke chapter 22 now, verses 41 through 43. Speaking of Jesus, and this is just before his crucifixion, he walked away about a stone's throw and now down and prayed. Father, if you are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine. Then an angel of heaven appeared and strengthened him. Here we see the Lord in a moment of anguish, knowing what's coming, knowing crucifixion, pain, suffering are all just on the other side of his act of obedience. And here he is asking the Father, if there is another way, let's take that route. Nevertheless, not my will, but your will be done. That is praying according to the Holy Spirit. If you look closely here, you see that there was a part of Jesus that was asking if there was a way out of this. I mean, who wants to be crucified? Who wants to endure that pain? Who wants to bear the weight to the fullness of sin? And that is to combine the sin of every generation, every individual and the shame of that sin in one moment and place it upon him when he's feeling that physical pain upon the cross. So he knows what's coming and it is not a comfortable feeling. And yet despite that discomfort, he persists on doing the will of God and the Holy Spirit causes the will of the Father to be prayed through you and I. Just as Jesus surrendered to the will of the Father in this moment in prayer, so the Holy Spirit helps you and I to surrender to the will of the Father in prayer. And so he causes us to pray God's will. He causes us to be in harmony in sync with heaven. This is the power of praying God's will. It's also the power of praying God's word, which is what it means to pray in the Holy Spirit. And this is where the real power is because alignment accesses authority. Alignment accesses authority. John 15-7, but if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want and it will be granted. So here Jesus is giving us a condition for prayers being answered. Now we should pay close attention to what he's saying here because he's giving an if this, then that scenario. He's telling us if you do this, this is the result. But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask me for anything you want and it will be granted. So here he's giving us the key, the secret, the condition that has to be met in order for us to have our prayers answered. So what does it mean to remain in me or to abide in me? And this is important. So he says, if you remain in me, if you abide in me, then and only then can you ask me for anything you want and I'll grant it to you. Now watch this first John 3, 24. It gives us this definition or somewhat of a definition of what it means to abide in him. Whoever keeps his commandments remains in God, in God and him. And by this we know that he remains in us by the spirit he has given us. It's more pointed here in first John 3, 21 to 22. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then we have confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him. Why? Because we keep his commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. So the scripture tells us that if we delight ourselves in him, he will give us the desires of our heart. Here Jesus is saying that if you walk according to my will and word that you can pray anything and I'll grant it. Now why is that? Because the person who walks according to the will and the word of God will pray prayers that are aligned with his will and God is not going to say no to his own will. In other words, when you echo the prayers that the Holy Spirit is praying, when you pray what the Holy Spirit desires, when you pray what the Holy Spirit wants, when you pray what the Holy Spirit has planned, then and only then are you guaranteed that your prayers will be answered, no exceptions. And that's a promise from Jesus. So the key is not in convincing God to do what we want to do. The key is in praying the will of God. Not in trying to change the direction of the river, which is God's will, but rather in jumping in the river and saying take me where you want me to go. And in doing this, we do and become that which pleases God. We do and become the will of the Father in the earth. This is what it means to pray in the spirit, to pray in alignment with the will of the spirit, to pray in alignment with the word of God, to pray with the guidance of the Holy Spirit in the power of the Holy Spirit under the influence of the Holy Spirit. It is to align ourselves with that precious person, the Holy Spirit and pray what he's praying with groanings that cannot be uttered. And so Psalm 37.4, I just quoted it to you, delight thyself also in the Lord and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Why? Because when I delight myself in the Lord, my desires become his desires. When I delight myself in the Lord, my will becomes his will. When I delight myself in the Lord, I love what he loves and I hate what he hates. When I delight myself in the Lord, I look at his plan instead of my plan and I say, Lord, let's go with your plan. And so this is what it means to pray according to his will and according to his word. That is what it means to pray in the Holy Spirit, to pray surrendered to the spirit. There is no system, it is simply surrender. So precious Lord, I pray that you would help your people to understand the oneness that they have with the precious Holy Spirit. And I ask you that you would cause them to pray prayers that are aligned with your will. Take us to the depths of your presence, Lord. Teach us to walk according to your word. Help us to surrender. Help us to submit. And Lord, when we waiver, help us to come back to the right path. Teach us, I pray. To pray according to your will and word. To pray in the spirit. And Lord, I ask that you would meet every need, bring forth healing and deliverance and breakthrough. I give you the honor and the praise. I break the power of addiction. The power of the Holy Spirit is flowing right now. Just receive that. I break addiction right now. There's someone watching. You've been struggling with a lust addiction. 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