“THE SPIRIT INTERCEDES!”

 Romans 8:26-30                                                         (ESV)

“26 Likewise the SPIRIT helps us in our weakness. For WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO PRAY AS WE OUGHT, but the SPIRIT HIMSELF intercedes for us with groanings TOO DEEP FOR WORDS.

27 And HE WHO searches hearts knows what is the mind of the SPIRIT, because “THE SPIRIT INTERCEDES” FOR THE SAINTS ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD.

28 And we know that for those who love GOD all things work together for good, for those who are called according to HIS purpose.

29 For those whom HE foreknew HE also predestined to be conformed to the image of his SON, in order that HE might be the firstborn among many brothers.

30 And those whom HE predestined HE also called, and those whom HE called HE also justified, and those whom HE justified HE also glorified.”

The following is an excerpt from writings of A.W. Tozer, “God's Gentle Whisper”.  A friend posted, and I shared, this recently and my mind is PAUSED on the phrase “SCHOOL OF SILENCE”!  

“But there is another school where the soul must go to learn its best eternal lessons. It is the SCHOOL OF SILENCE. BE STILL AND KNOW, said the psalmist, and there is a PROFOUND PHILOSOPHY there, of UNIVERSAL APPLICATION. Prayer among evangelical Christians is always in danger of DEGENERATING into a GLORIFIED GOLD RUSH. Almost every book on prayer deals with the GET element mainly. “

Sometimes I are under the impression that we have to deliver some great oration when we are communicating with the ALMIGHTY.  I’m not trying to say that I have it all figured out, but there are times when I simply allow my mind to go wherever GOD directs it, usually when I am in a spot where I am not certain of my next move! 

The GET element crowds out the POSSESSION of GOD in so many prayers these days.  We are so focused on GETTING things that we lose sight of WHO is doing the GIVING!  Allowing THE SPIRIT to move me to a position where I am focused on worshiping GOD is ultimately where I wind up when I manage to BE STILL!  Knowing that HE IS GOD and I AM NOT is where my RESET button has to carry me. 

When “THE SPIRIT INTERCEDES”, HE never elevates our wishes in front of the MASTERS will!  Maybe I need to YIELD to “THE SPIRIT INTERCEDING” more, close my mouth, open my heart, and allow GOD to direct the paths of my mind?