I am a prayer man and I can’t live for a moment without praying and worshiping God in my prayer closet.I am an intercessor,a priest being called in the order of Melchizedek where Jesus Christ in heaven is my great High priest that forever serve to intercede for all of us(Hebrew 7:25).In Hebrew ,we read : “And having been perfected,He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.called by God as High priest “according to the order of Melcizedek,”(Hebrew 6:9-10-NKJV)
MANY TIMES I would be lost in my personal prayer life and there come a time when I do not even know what to pray or how I ought to pray.Then the Spirit of Christ would bring me to Christ,where He would again remind me on how to pray…”Oh blessed Saviour,Yeshua Hamashiach(Jesus the Christ)teach me to pray!
“Lord,teach us to pray,as John also taught his disciples.” So He said to them,”When you pray,say :
Our Father in heaven,Hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come,
Your will be done
On earth as it is heaven.
Give us day by day our daily bread
And forgive us our sins,
For we also forgive everyone
who is indebted to us
And do not lead us into temptation
But deliver us form the evil.”
(Luke 11:2-4-NKJV)
Our Father in heaven,Hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come,
Your will be done
On earth as it is heaven.
Give us day by day our daily bread
And forgive us our sins,
For we also forgive everyone
who is indebted to us
And do not lead us into temptation
But deliver us form the evil.”
(Luke 11:2-4-NKJV)
Do I pray in tongues ?Aaah..YES!Since the day when Jesus Christ baptize with with the Holy Ghost in the early 80′s,I have never stop speaking and praying in tongues.Speaking and praying in tongues It edify and recharge my spirit man,knowing that the Holy Ghost within me ‘help’me to pray in spirit.Paul was inspired to write:
“He who speak in a tongue edifies himself,but he who prophesies edifies the church “(1 Cor 14:4-NKJV).
Paul further teaches us : “What is the conclusion then?I will PRAY with the spirit (praying in tongues)and I will also PRAY WITH THE UNDERSTANDING(known tongue languages like English & so forth) .I will sing with the spirit (singing in tongues).and I will also sing with the understanding”(1 Corinthians 14:15-NKJV).
As a chosen royal priest in the kingdom of God,its our sacrificial duty to intercede for others (Revelation 1 :6b).The Holy Spirit is ever presence within us inspiring and helping us to intercede in our prayer.Roman 8:26-28 says : “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 “(KJV)
As a chosen royal priest in the kingdom of God,its our sacrificial duty to intercede for others (Revelation 1 :6b).The Holy Spirit is ever presence within us inspiring and helping us to intercede in our prayer.Roman 8:26-28 says : “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 “(KJV)
The word “Groaning”here in the Greek is root word is “stenagmos” which simply mean “to sigh”.To ‘sigh’means:” to lament; to grieve.A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing”(http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/sigh/).Many time the Spirit of God in me keep stirring within the pitch of my stomach(spirit man)that I often uttered a “sigh”with such audible respiration of air,because if I don’t release such sigh,it will bubbled within my innermost being which make me continually feel a heavy weight in my heart till I desire to release such ‘sigh’through my esophagus and mouth.Groaning in the spirit is the manifestation the Holy Ghost,where He come upon to stir your spirit man to worship and pray and intercessory prayer often without any word spoken,save only an utterance of tongues or a “sigh” of deep groaning which un-uttered words.The best way to release such ‘groaning’in the Spirit is by praying and speaking in tongues.And what a joy to pray in tongues.What a joy to intercede and what a joy to sigh in groaning by the Spirit!
I thank God that I speak and pray in tongues more than most of us.(1 Cor 14;18)I can speak over seven kind of heavenly languages ,such utterance given by the holy Ghost and I spoke one African language as His gift of tongue,though I never learn such language.BUt when it come to prayer with understanding.I will often need His will to develop such “prayer with understanding-I pray in English,Malaysian and my mother tongue tribal language -Kadazan Language.The “Lord’s prayer”become my based to pray with the “understanding”and for many time,such prayer has lifted up my very soul.Glory!
