John Macarthur sermons: How to pray in the Spirit- The thought shared in this short clip on prayer by John Macarthur is one of the most important thing I have ever learned about effective prayer in the Spirit.
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★Speaker: John Macarthur - www.gty.org
★Video source for this John Macarthur praying in the spirit sermon jam: COMING SOON
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★☆★ Notes from this John Macarthur prayer sermon video:
All our praying needs to be in the Spirit. In the Spirit. And by the way, this is a very, very common New Testament principle. Jude 20. "But you, beloved, building yourselves up "on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit." If you want to grow and be strong and be triumphant, you need to pray in the Holy Spirit.

All prayer must be in the Spirit. What does that mean? What it means is to pray in harmony with the Holy Spirit. Pray consistently with the mind and will of the Spirit. And a clear understanding of that is granted to us in the eighth chapter of Romans, if you look at it for a moment. Romans chapter eight and verse 26. "The Spirit helps our weakness. We don't know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words."
That is just one of the most encouraging verses in all the Bible. Here we are, we're believers, he's talking about us.

He's saying we need help because we don't even know what to pray for. And we don't know how to pray. There are things that we can't anticipate, there are things that are too complicated for us to know which direction to direct our prayers. We don't always know what to pray for or how to pray, so the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. Some people think that means speaking in tongues. No. It's not us speaking gibberish, it's the Holy Spirit praying for us with a kind of groaning that can't be audiblized.

And verse 27 says, "He who searches the hearts," that's God, "knows what the mind of the Spirit is." Would you believe this? That the Spirit knows how to pray for you? Yes, omniscient. That the Father knows what you need. That the Spirit prays in perfect accord with the will of the Father. Verse 27, "He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God." So when you're praying in the Spirit, it is simply praying consistently with the mind of the Spirit and the will of God. We don't always know what that is but we know a lot about what that is 'cause God has disclosed his will in scripture.

Praying in the Spirit simply means praying in perfect harmony and perfect accord with the mind of the Spirit of God and the will of God. It's a magnificent concept. It is the Holy Spirit who prays for us in perfect harmony with the will of the Father and we need to make sure we line up our prayers consistent with the Spirit. So we need to pray for things we know God wills, our virtue, our holiness, our strength, our spiritual maturity, our usefulness, our service, a deepening of our love for Christ. Those are the things the Spirit prays for that God agrees with and our prayers need to be consistent with that.

Zachariah 12:10 calls the Holy Spirit, I love this, "The Spirit of supplication." One of the overlooked ministries of the Holy Spirit is that he is the one who prays for us. Christ did that in his High Priestly work, yes, he's at the right hand of the Father praying for us as our great High Priest. The Holy Spirit is inside of us praying for us from here and the one who searches the heart, who is God, knows what is the mind of the Spirit because he always prays according to the will of God and therefore, whatever it is that the Spirit prays for, God gives.

So learn to line up your prayers. Get past the trivial, past the mundane, past the superficial and learn to line up your prayers with what you know to be the will of God and the desire of the Holy Spirit so you're praying, for example, for the things that are manifestly evident when you walk in the Spirit, the fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control.... Complete transcript for this John Macarthur effective prayer sermon is in the Closed caption.
-(John Macarthur "praying in tongues VS praying in the spirit")

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Yours faithfully,
Joseph

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