The Powerful Prayer | John Giftah | Christian Sermon | Praying in the Spirit

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0:42 Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. Everybody wants to go around looking for a powerful prayer, a prayer that will make a difference, a prayer that will transform them, that will make their answers come to become a reality. The areas where they need a breakthrough. People go for anointing prayer and fasting prayer and different kinds of prayers and looking for an answer from the Lord. And I just want to share something with you, guys. I believe it's the most powerful aspect of prayer. Right when you start off, you are a new being into the Christendom and you want to know how to pray.

1:27 So you understand that you just pray, you know, from your heart, You just put out to the Lord. You just share what is in your heart. Just talk with the Lord and speak to the Lord. And yes, there is power in you know, just being open to the Lord and just talking with the Lord as you just feel that the prayer is talking with the Lord and having that deep communion with the Lord where you're just fellowship with the Lord. So there is an aspect of prayer like that we're just being open. There's also an aspect where I always talk about praying in accordance to the word of God, because you know, the scripture says, you know, God, here's has when we pray according to the will of God.

2:07 And one of the best ways to understand the will of God is by praying in accordance to the word of God. You know, I've shared all about these in different segments, and I will share about them in the upcoming episodes as well. But I want to talk about one important aspect I believe is so powerful that has helped me in my personal walk, and that is, you know, to pray in accordance or to be led by the spirit in your prayer. You see, sometimes we think about being led by the spirit or walking in the spirit as an element of you know, in only with regard to what decisions.

2:43 You know, we just say Holy Spirit day control and you know, lead me in this decision. And then you know, only in decision making or you know, like when we start a prayer or service or sermon or a session, we say Holy Spirit day complete control. But you know, one of the keys I all says, you know, you know, the real power comes in getting to the place where you are praying in the spirit with the Holy Spirit prays through you. And I want to share tho scriptures and I want to take this forward Efhicients, Chapter six, verse eighteen, And this is what it says, and pray in the Spirit on all occasions and with all kinds of prayers and requests.

3:24 This is from the NIVY version. Okay, it says, pray in the Spirit on all occasions, with all kinds of prayers and requests. Remember it's not saying like, you know, pray in the Spirit when you feel like or once in a while. But one of the things that says is in any kind of prayer request or any kind of petitions that you have, supplications that you have, and you look at different translations. Right. It says in all kinds of prayers that you have, whatever it is, maybe for a breakthrough, maybe for just your walk with a lot, with just your prayer time with a lot.

3:56 You know, get to a place where you don't just say, you know what, I'll just open my mouth and then just go with the flow whatever I want to say. But get to that place where you say, Holy Spirit, take complete control and lead me because I want to pray in you, to pray in the spirit. I want you to lead me through my prayer. Sometimes we just don't, you know, pray in the spirit. We don't love the Holy Spirit to pray through us. We When you say what do you mean by that? Let me give you another scripture Romans eight twenty six.

4:30 This is what it says. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we are to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless grooons. This is from the Navy version. Now, when you look at the Nalty version, it says, and the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we do not know what God wants us to pray for, but the Holy Spirit praise for us with groanings that cannot be expressed. If you also look at the very un standard transay it says, or English standard version, it says, but the Spirit inter seeds for us with deep too groanings, too deep for words.

5:15 You know, what you understand is you get to a place where you are being led by the Holy Spirit of your God. You are led by God's guidance, and you know sometimes you know, we talk about being led by the spirit and your decision making, but can you get to a place where you're led by the spirit even in your prayer? Don't just use your words and just say, you know what, I use these fancy words and I'm praying, because a lot of times when we talk about prayer, we are focusing on the act of prayer. We are just doing what everybody else is doing as the You know, this is how prayer is.

5:47 You know, just close your eyes and say a couple of words and then put some Bible verses in between the prayer, and you know, just I ended with the amen, and we've made it like a formulae of words. But what I'm trying to help you understand is the most powerful prayer that you can have a pray is getting to the place where you say, Holy Spirit, I don't know how to pray. You lead me, you guide me, you take control, and I want you to intercede. And the Bible says, you don't know how to pray, you don't know what to pray, and the Holy Spirit of God will intercede through us.

6:24 You know that is a powerful prayer, guys. And I'm telling you, when you allow God to do that, your life goes to levels you never even imagined. I remember when I was in twenty twelve, is when this revelation came to me and it changed me in so many ways. In twenty twelve till then, I would spend so many hours praying just you know, it would be about the you know, the different words that I knew, you know, like oh God, you know I'm in your presence and you know God blah blah blah blah blah blah, interceding for different people, praying about different concerns.

6:59 Spend so much of time praying even couple of you know, like for us or you know, more than that. I remember praying and one day, the Lord gave me this revelation of you know, getting to the place of humility, and I said, God, Holy Spirit, I don't know how to pray. You lead me. You know, one of the best things you can ever say is telling the Holy Spirit, I don't know how to do this. Telling the Holy Spirit how to saying I don't know how to do something that you already know doing is one of the most humbling things that you can ever do, but one of the best things you can ever do.

7:31 I said, Holy Spirit, I don't know how to pray, but I could pray for four us. I was like this prayer warrior kind of a person. I could pray for so much time. But I told the Holy Spirit, I don't know how to pray. And Holy Spirit, you pray, You lead me, you guide me. And I'm telling you, guys, when you get to that place of humility, when you surrender yourself to the Lord and say I do not know, I want you to take control. And when you let the Holy spe Spirit pray through you, when you learn the Holy Spirit walk through you, when you let the Holy Spirit, you know, I'm telling you, guys, when you pray in the spirit, not once in a while, not when you feel like it, not once in a bloomod when it's better, costal Sunday or something, but when you pray in the Spirit on all occasions, you know, all kinds of prayers that you pray every single day.

8:18 You know, I always tell people, even in your walk time, walk with the Lord, in your quiet time with the Lord, even that don't go with a formula, don't go with an agenda. Don't see there's a place for discipline and all of that, But for the most part, I'm telling you, guys, get to a place where you're being sensitive to the Holy Spirit, and let the Holy Spirit of God lead you in your prayer. Let the Holy Spirit of God lead you in your walk with the Lord. Let the Holy Spirit of God lead you in your time of Bible reading, and let the Holy Spirit of God lead you in your time of worship.

8:47 Don't do this without being led by the Holy Spirit God. Today, I pray that this word will go forth the name of Jesus Christ, for every single person listening in the name of Jesus, that they will thought being led by the Spirit even in their prayer, that their prayer will go to another level. Their prayer, life will go to another level. They walk with you, We'll go to another level where their you know, spiritual aspects will go to another level because they depend on you. Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, take complete control.

9:19 In the name of Jesus Christ. God be more real to us. And we pray, just like the Bible says in the Book of Romans eight twenty six, that the Holy Spirit of God will intercede, not us, not doing it on our own, not doing it with our own flesh, our own mind. But we will pray in the spirit the Holy Spirit interceding through us. In the name of Jesus Christ. I pray, Amen, God bless you. You've been listening to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. We hope you were blessed and inspired to live the life that God has for you.

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