21 Days of Fasting and Prayer
As we enter 2025, many are eager for a new beginning. Amid the chaos, there is a longing for answers and tranquility. This serves as a powerful reminder that true peace is found in God. Let’s make 2025 a year of deepening our relationship with Him like never before. This year, as we embark on a collective fasting journey, let’s come together with others to form a community that rejuvenates our hearts and minds. We invite you to participate in this year's Fast. Together, as we seek God, we can conquer any challenge.
Today's Devotion
Praying in the Spirit
Wednesday January 15, 2025
When we use God’s gifts to speak to Him, we’re able to pray about things we don’t yet comprehend with our own understanding.
When we use God’s gifts to speak to Him, we’re able to pray about things we don’t yet comprehend with our own understanding.
Today's Scripture
- Romans 8:26-27 NKJV
- “Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.”
Devotion
Most of life is spiritual, comprising things we can’t grasp with our physical senses and mysteries we can’t fathom with natural thinking. Good intentions and masterful plans don’t really make much progress against spiritual forces. That’s why we pray.
But when we don’t know what God wants to do in our situation, or when we can’t find words to adequately express what’s in our heart, how do we pray? Thankfully, we’re not left on our own to figure out what to pray. The Holy Spirit offers to lead us.
The Spirit knows what’s in God’s heart and exactly what He wants in our life. He directs our intercession accordingly, leading us to pray about spiritual mysteries and God’s will for our life.
The Spirit may also put words on our lips to express sentiments that are beyond our understanding. Because God’s thoughts aren’t like ours, Spirit-led prayer words don’t make sense to our minds. Our “mother tongue” enables prayer for what we do understand, and our “other” tongue allows us to pray about what we don’t.
Most of life is spiritual, comprising things we can’t grasp with our physical senses and mysteries we can’t fathom with natural thinking. Good intentions and masterful plans don’t really make much progress against spiritual forces. That’s why we pray.
But when we don’t know what God wants to do in our situation, or when we can’t find words to adequately express what’s in our heart, how do we pray? Thankfully, we’re not left on our own to figure out what to pray. The Holy Spirit offers to lead us.
The Spirit knows what’s in God’s heart and exactly what He wants in our life. He directs our intercession accordingly, leading us to pray about spiritual mysteries and God’s will for our life.
The Spirit may also put words on our lips to express sentiments that are beyond our understanding. Because God’s thoughts aren’t like ours, Spirit-led prayer words don’t make sense to our minds. Our “mother tongue” enables prayer for what we do understand, and our “other” tongue allows us to pray about what we don’t.
Prayer Points
- The Lord knows the circumstances in your life right now, as well as what’s behind them. What is the benefit of praying in the Spirit?
- What is something big you’ve been praying about using your own understanding? Would you consider praying about it with the Spirit (1 Cor. 14:15)?
- Paul spoke in tongues more than his contemporaries did (1 Cor. 14:18). This week, will you take time to pray in the Spirit more than you usually do?