Tag: Holy Spirit

Let’s Pray in the Spirit

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Heavenly Father,

With such a grand title, Let’s Pray in the Spirit, I feel like I need to prepare my prayer space and clear my head or utter a chant. But God that would be all me doing all the work as if to show you that I was in the Spirit.

Lord God, you have given me your Spirit. Selah.

Oh, Father, how I sit in that truth. How the gift of such magnitude overwhelms my heart, causing me to catch my breath. Selah.

Sweet Father,

May I pray for myself and for my prayer sister that we may know you are with us. Always. Father, your Spirit is in us. Always. I pray she will feel your presence. I pray you will capture her heart and mind and thoughts. For when she is in prayer praying all things before the Throne she is praying in the Spirit, for you have promised. And in that promise we kneel, we bow, we sit, we lay, we come before you. As we are before your Throne, we pray, Father God, hear these words. Treasure them. Hold them…

Gather our prayers, I pray. Unite them for the kingdom come. May our words be useful for your way, to pour out your truth, and to offer life -abundant and eternal life- within us and upon those around us. For you and in your Spirit I pray.

God, I adore you. How precious we are in your sight! How magnificent and good you are in ours! Thank you for such a personal relationship with you. Thank you for Christ Jesus. And thank you for your Spirit. I pray we will pray this day in the Spirit. Not in our own efforts but in your promise.

Amen

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**1 Corinthians 2 (listen to the words spoken over you)

***Ephesians 6:18 (ponder the beauty of this truth)

👉🏻 Friend, if prayer is a struggle for you please join me in this Video Lesson. Perhaps it will bring clarity and freedom to your prayer life. Xoxo

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Let’s Pray for Our Prayer Life

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Have you ever thought about praying for your prayer life? Will you consider asking God to help you grow in the areas you feel weak or insecure or doubtful when you pray? Will you join me in praying for your conversation with God Almighty…

Lord God, our prayer life seems so daunting at times. Other times it feels void, empty. God, there are times we dance on the mountain top in your presence then we turn around and feel like we are sitting in the mire in the midst of the valley. Why?

Why is prayer so hard at times? Lord God, may we ask you to help us to pray? Will you so graciously meet us, each of us, where we are and teach us to pray. Lord, we know The Lord’s Prayer. We know the Scriptures that draw us to pray without ceasing and to couple our prayers with Thanksgiving. But God, in all our knowing, we are missing something. What?

Holy Spirit?. Selah.

Spirit, will you pray with me today? Guide my heart to the words swarming in my head this very moment. Cause my thoughts to express the fullness of my heart’s cry. Selah.

Help me to be real.

Help me to pray in the emotion that is circling within this very moment.

Help me to carry my questions and my requests to the Father.

I struggle with finding the right words. Will you please silence my desire to pray “properly” or “correctly” and simply help me to talk to you, my God? Oh, that I will talk with familiarity and ease! That I may express my truths with trust that my Father is holding every word of mine in His heart. Selah.

Remind me that God cherishes me.

That He favors my vulnerability.

And that He promises to hear me.

Father God, thank you for hearing our words. You hear us when we speak. This amazes me. This draws my heart to songs of worship that You, the God of the mountain and the God of the valley, is purposing to be ever faithfully by my side in sweet, sweet conversation.

God, Three in One, how spoiled we are to be known by You! Oh, that we will begin our personal prayer time with You, remembering how connected we are in You! Thank you for pouring your love on us. Thank you for filling us with Your Spirit. Thank you for giving us the mind of Christ. Lord God, thank you.

Selah

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Let’s Pray for Connection

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Dear Father,

I pray you will guide my eyes to the connection that matters. Father, there are so many distractions. So many connections that tug at my heart causing my thoughts to sway from what matters above all else.

Lord, I pray you will guard my ears from hearing, my eyes from seeing, my thoughts from wandering, my heart from desiring, and (quite frankly) my American blood from boiling. How easy it is to seek connection to that which is familiar, safe, expected, “normal”…

Yet, Lord, you have provided connections that set a safe guard around all of me, inside and out. Connection to You above all else. Lord Jesus, thank you for this sweet and powerful connection! Thank you for salvation! Thank you for prayer! How greatly I cling to our conversations day by day, moment by moment.

Father God, build connections within our lives that lead to Truth. How hard this is, for what is truth? Lord, we know YOU are TRUTH, but in the world around us truth is uncertain. I pray you will stir within our hearts when true facts are presented before us. Cause us to walk away from falsehoods. Lead us in the way of right thinking and set our feet on your solid foundation. Discernment, Lord! For this I pray!!

Holy Spirit, weave us within a tapestry of family focused beauty! That our ears, eyes, thoughts and steps will be encompassed by a great cloud of witnesses. That we will be filled with words of encouragement and strength founded upon Jesus Christ! That we will be surety for one another. And that through our connection to you and to one another we may share Truth to the hungry world around us.

Connect us, Sweet Savior, within the safety of Your love.

Amen

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