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The Holy Spirit’s Role in Prayer

Georgia May 22, 2018

Dear brother “Paul”,
Greetings in the name of Jesus. Thank you for you letter and question & observations. Since there might be others with similar questions to our thought provoking articles, I thought we should engage the other brothers in the conversation by answering it publicly.
Thank you for the honor you give me by asking the following question that I pasted it as you wrote it to me last night.

Question & Observation - What do you see as the role of the Holy Spirit in the prayer life of a believer? My personal belief and experience is that the Holy Spirit often guides my prayers and in fact my life in directions that are ones that I did not expect but I believe are as He wants for me. Just a thought.
Blessings,
Paul

Dear Paul,
With the sincerity and respect you deserve I write as shooting from the hip, for I believe that you are not looking for elaborated theologically and politically correct answers.

About the role of the Holy Spirit in prayer:
My view is that the trinity is one in prayer I cuddle my self in oneness in the bosom of the trinity as wanting to blend with God in unity and without any want or will of my own in absolute and holy reliance that it’s best for me to be better dead in Christ and no longer I living but Jesus in me as the hope of glory.

The whole of prayer is to take us back to the oneness lost in our search of independence from God. The true dependence from God is not partial dependence and not even “Often” dependence but total and absolute dependence as there is only one God and there is no other and apart from him we ARE nothing.

Let me say the same thing in other words and I will use this time the “Big Guns” such as Luther who said, if memory serves me right, “We are lost the moment we talk about God and us as two and not as one”.

I believe that the ultimate aim of prayer from God’s part is to bring us into oneness and unity with God that is already the expressed will of Jesus in the Priestly Prayer of the Lord in John Seventeen. “That we might be ONE” as always were, are and will forever be. God was, is and always will be the one and only I AM and there was no one, there is no one and there shall never be another the “I AM THAT I AM”.

If I found grace in your eyes my friend let me add that, “There is nothing of eternal consequence that is born in time and space”.

In the plains of eternity, time and space are but a pothole and a bump soon to be repaired at the return of Jesus.

We are eternal beings that before creation were in the thoughts of God with no existence of our own that by the word of God came into the world and the hands of God formed our frame. God in wisdom blew his breath into our nostril for a time given us life long enough to experience his love and grace to be able to appreciate God and to love him back and worship him with true reasons of gratitude born in redemption from sin.

Prayer is the bridge that takes us back to the garden to the cool of the day to resume, that which was the reason we were created for. To be one with God in the playpen of the Garden as a loving father plays with his beloved children after the example of the trinity under whose image we have been created.

That was a mouth full, I better take a breath and pray not to be misunderstood but be a blessings as this truths have sustained me as a true blessing from God in my lonely walk with God at old age.

In simple terms “Paul”, to fully understand these things are not a matter of more time or more information or more “grey matter” of which you have plenty because I have noticed you have an extra large cranial bone structure.

No “Paul”. It is a matter of childlikeness that is of absolute necessity, and without it we are still half blind or crocked eye at best. By this I mean we need only to accept and just step into the play pen at the cool of the day and pray and play until you giggle so hard as you see your father in Heaven in Jesus laughing with great delight along with you in the sand box.

I could write like this to you all the daylong “until the cows come home” but I rather use my personal testimony. “Recently I had the privilege of leading my grandson to Jesus and his idea of Heaven is a never ending Birthday Party”. I do not know where he got that idea but I just feel like joining him and thank God for his testimony.

The role of the Holy Spirit in prayer is two fold, we can not truly pray without his help and the other is to protect us from taking credit for such supernatural act that would be harmful for us who without him we can do nothing.

I my humble opinion, when you say that in your own experience the Holy Spirit OFTEN leads to places that later you realize to be from God, I dare say again with all due respect to your gray hair and the several laps ahead of me in age: “Those OFTEN times you mention are the only times you can be sure that the sovereign power of God the Holy Spirit gave you a taste of that his ways are best and that your role is to yield and agree with God in childlikeness without resistance and to enjoy his leading hand that by far is better than the counsel of your own will.

I love when you credit the Holy Spirit and recognize that it is becoming OFTEN in your way to ALWAYS. Might OFTEN be the norm than the exception.

Thank you again for your testimony and making yourself vulnerable by admitting the convenience of yielding and recognizing the power and reality of the Holy Spirit of God in your life. In reality the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus that was sent for those who wait for power from on high. I know you enough to say that you are not compartmentalizing God and the role as being separate from one another. Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.”

I pray and hope you do not find my “gobbledygook” disturbing.

Your fellow witness of Jesus that testifies along with you.

Gerry Gutierrez