JUST PRAY

We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.  … because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.  Romans 8:26-27

We can cry out to God in a desperate moment and he is willing to protect us.  Even so, we need to be prepared before a desperate situation.  So, what do we do?  We pray!  What do we pray for?  We may not know, but, the Holy Spirit will assist us in prayer.

In example, I was pressed by the Spirit to pray for the safety of my family as they drove to and from work and school.  Why?  I didn’t know.  But I prayed.  I prayed for my wife and children by name, I prayed that each one be protected during driving.  I asked the Lord to cause them to slow up or speed up, whatever was needed to keep them safe.  After just two days our daughter came in from high school, telling how her dive that morning was crazy.  She had been held up in traffic, continually slowed up, unable to pass slower traffic.  Then she had been caught by a red light—at the same moment, across the intersection, a truck with an extension bucket, or “cherry-picker,” had snagged power lines that then fell across the road.  Had she not been slowed a few seconds, she would have been next to that truck.  To this day, we know God had intervened, I had prayed for it, though I had no idea what I was praying for.  God did, and answered. 

My point is simple; remain in prayer and respond to the whisper of Christ’s Spirit, he intercedes for us, according to God’s will.  God will let you know what to pray for, He may be vague, or he may be specific—but God’s Counselor, the Holy Spirit is there guiding you.  God’s Spirit orders our steps for every situation, we must keep in step with the Spirit (Gal 5:25), being in prayer keeps us in step with God’s Spirit.

Just Pray,

Owen <><