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THE HOLY SPIRIT AND OUR PRAYERS

Anyone could pray; we saw that at the beginning of our study.
Anyone could pray to anything or idol he or she created and accept
as their god or divine power. The Bible teaches us to pray to the only
true living God, the Creator of heaven and earth. It also teaches us
that God cannot be approached by us in and of ourselves. God is too
holy for us. And not only can we not approach Him, we could not
talk to Him without someone who first made it possible for us to live
in a very personal relationship with God and also enable us to
talk/pray to Him without God’s wrath coming down upon us. Only
through Jesus Christ, who is our Mediator, we have access to God
and may draw near to Him with a sincere heart (Hebrews 10:22).
Also, look again to the beautiful words in Hebrews 7:25.

That being clarified again, there is another aspect of prayer that we
may never devalue. Just as much as it is impossible to pray without
Jesus being our Mediator and Intercessor, just as impossible is it to
pray without the Holy Spirit. Arthur W. Pink says, “Prayer has rightly
been termed “the breathing of the newborn soul,” yet we must
carefully bear in mind that its respiration is wholly determined by the
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stirrings of the Holy Spirit within us.”

Read the following paragraph and discuss it.

“If we are left to ourselves, we will never see the all-wise hand of God
in our lives and inflictions. We will never say, “Thy will be done.” We
will never seek grace to patiently endure trials. Neither would we hope
that afterward, it would produce the peaceable fruit of righteousness
in us (Hebrews 12:11).”

5.1 ROMANS 8:26 – THE HOLY SPIRIT INTERCEDES

2 The Holy Spirit, A.W Pink 1978: p.141