The Holy Spirit in Prayer

Many people ask these questions:  why should I pray?  Does it really work?  What happens in prayer?   

The short answer to such questions would be: Yes, in prayer we are communicating with God our Heavenly Father.  He is with us by the power of the Holy Spirit.  

How all this happens is reliant and dependent on that, the power of the Holy Spirit.  He (not an it - the 3rd person of the Trinity) is our Mediator, Helper, Counselor, and Advocate.  He is real.  He speaks to us in our prayer.  He reveals the things of God to us, as amazing as that sounds.  1 Corinthians 2: 12 says - "Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God."  

That we may understand the things of God - our sin, the Truth of our salvation in Christ, and His guidance - by prayer.

We are focusing on prayer during this Lenten campaign called:  "Utter Dependence - Prayer & Fasting."  As we pray and look at prayer in Scripture, we must focus on the Holy Spirit - who leads us and speaks to us in prayer and even prays for us......when we don't know how. 

Ultimately, if we have salvation in Christ, we have the gift of the Holy Spirit in our lives.  Often, we don't fully know or understand the power of the Holy Spirit - what He can do in prayer for us and through us.  We hope to help you understand what He can do for you as our Helper, Counselor, Advocate, and Mediator.  We want you to know this, believe this, and feel His presence in your prayers in a fuller, greater way.  Because if Christ is in us, the Holy Spirit is speaking and working on us.

This is our focus Sunday morning as we worship at Bellwether - "The Holy Spirit in Prayer."  Our Scripture passage will be John 16: 7-16.  We hope you can be with us for worship and prayer as we lead up to Holy Week & Easter Resurrection.

More so, we hope you will know how the Holy Spirit helps you in prayer and even prays for you.  May we all rely on Him to fill our lives.