One vital important way in which the Holy Spirit helps us is in our prayers. In Romans 8:14 Paul described our need of the Holy Spirit’s guidance to lead the Christian life
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For all who are being led by the spirit of God, these are sons of God
In order to become a Christian, you must be born of the Spirit of God. But in order to live like a Christian and come to maturity after you have been born again, you must be led continually by the Spirit of God.
The form of the verb that Paul used there is the continuing present. ‘For all who are being (continually) led by the spirit of God, these are sons of God’ they are no longer little babies but mature sons and daughters.
Further in Romans, Paul applied this principle of being led by the Holy Spirit particularly to our prayer life. He emphasized the necessity of the guidance of the Holy Spirit to pray alright.
To key to effective praying is learning how to be so related to the Holy Spirit that we can submit to Him. Then we can let him guide, direct, inspire, strengthen, and many times actually pray through us.
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The New Testament reveals many ways in which the Holy Spirit can help us, a few of which I will now outline
The first way is referred to in those verse Romans 8:26-27 Paul said, ‘’The Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groaning too deep for words’’ I would call that intercession, which is one of the high points of the Christian life. Then he spoke about ‘’groaning too deep for words’’ one finite, limited minds to not have the words to pray what needs to be prayed. So one of the ways the Holy Spirit comes to our aid is to pray through us with groaning that cannot be expressed in words
A second way in which the Holy Spirit helps us in prayer is that he illuminates our minds. He does not actually pray through us in this way, but he shows us in our minds what we need to pray for and how we need to pray for it. There are two passages from the Epistles that speak about the work of the Holy Spirit in our minds. In Romans 12:2 we read
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect
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Only a renewed mind can find out God’s will, even in the matter of prayer. Ephesians 4:23 says,
The renewing of our mind is done by the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit moves in and renews our minds, then we begin to understand the will of God, and we begin to know how to pray according to the will of God
