The Unmatched Power of Prayer
“So too the Holy Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what
prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our
supplication and pleads on our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for
utterance.” (Rom 8:26 Amp)
We are all energised by the Holy Spirit for prayer; but we don’t often realise that the Holy Spirit prays
prayers for us which we cannot utter ourselves. When we are born again, and indwelt by the Spirit, He
expresses for us in prayer, the unutterable.
The Word tell us in v 27 that the Spirit “makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.”
And God searches our hearts, not to know what our conscious prayers are, but to find out what the
prayer of the Holy Spirit is.
The Spirit uses the nature of a Christian as a temple in which to offer His prayers of intercession. “Your
body is the temple of the Holy Spirit …” (1Cor. 6:19). When Jesus cleansed the temple He wouldn’t
allow anyone to carry merchandises through the temple (Mark: 11:16). This implies that the Spirit will
not allow us to use our bodies for our own conveniences. Jesus ruthlessly cast out all who bought and
sold in the temple, saying; “My house shall be called a house of prayer … But you have made it a den of
thieves”. (Mark 11:17)
Do we realise that our “body is the temple of the Holy Spirit”? If so, we have to be careful to keep it
undefiled for Him, remember that our conscious life is to be regarded by us as a temple of the Spirit. He
will be responsible for the unconscious part of which we are unaware, but we must pay careful attention
to and guard the conscious part for which we are responsible.