What’s one of the first things you do when you are presented with something you don’t know? It’s quite likely you grab your phone or computer and click on your favorite search engine. We have an endless amount of technology to solve our problems or give us information that increases every day. We have become increasingly self-reliant and self-sufficient when it comes to taking care of our needs. While those resources are helpful, they are limited. You may be able to look up suggestions to heal a broken relationship, find medical advice, how to manage your finances, but ultimately our provider and our healer is Jesus.
We were never meant to do anything outside of our relationship with the Holy Spirit. When Jesus prophesied his death and resurrection to his disciples, he promised he would send the Holy Spirit to be our helper. The Holy Spirit has been described as our helper, intercessor, comforter and guide. When the Holy Spirit came in Acts, the disciples were filled with the gift of tongues. They were able to preach boldly, were filled with power and were given bold words to speak when faced with adversity. We have the same Holy Spirit to empower, guide and teach us. As you fast and pray, you may have some specific areas where you are asking the Holy Spirit for wisdom or guidance. The Holy Spirit wants to help you in every area of your life. He is interested and intimately acquainted with all your strengths and weaknesses, all your joys and troubles, all your dreams and disappointments. He is your best support system and strongest resource. When you don’t have the words to pray, he intercedes on your behalf with heavenly sounds so deep they are beyond our comprehension (Romans 8:26-27). The Holy Spirit wants to help you navigate difficult conversations. He wants to be your strategist and solutionary for problems you don’t have the answer to. The Holy Spirit fills us with power and with words so when we pray, people are healed, problems are solved and demons flee. Partnering with the Holy Spirit is part of the gift package we inherited with salvation. I don’t know about you, but I want to take full advantage of everything Jesus bought with his suffering. I want to see people healed and delivered. I want to see miracles in seemingly impossible situations. I want to see people come to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Don’t you? Take some time today to submit again to the Holy Spirit and let him fill you afresh.
Listening Prayer:
Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you what areas of your life you have not fully surrendered to him. Ask him for a strategy to help you.
Write down what he shows you. Invite him to help you release that area to him.
Prayer:
Holy Spirit, come and fill me afresh today. By my own free will and desire, I submit to you. I ask you to be the ruling and reigning Spirit in my life. I submit my flesh to my spirit and my spirit to you Holy Spirit. I ask you to be my teacher and my guide. Fill me with power and boldness for the Kingdom’s sake. Teach me to pray. Give me eyes to see like the Father sees. I ask you to intercede on my behalf. I invite you into every part of my life and ask you to bring my perspective into alignment with yours. Help me to remember your Word. Fill my mouth with your words. Fill my thoughts with your thoughts. Fill my hands with your power. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Resource: Bible Verses on the Holy Spirit
“And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say, for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.” (Luke 12:11-12)
“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.” (John 14:26)
“When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.” (John 16:13-15)
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)
Worship Song:
“Make Room” by Community Music
“Tethered” by Phil Wickam