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The apostles Peter and John had been arrested for healing a lame man, threatened by the Jewish authorities to stop preaching in Jesus’ name, and let go.
The church responded to the situation by praying.
We also need to be a people of prayer!
There are various Hebrew and Greek words translated prayer in the Bible, but the basic meaning is to ask, to petition, to beseech.
As Christians we have the wonderful privilege of making our requests known to God through prayer.
Why can we pray?
To whom are we to pray?
God the Father
“In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven...”
(Matthew 6:6 NKJV)
Why do we pray to the Father, and not the Son?
Because spiritually, we are one with the Son
The Spirit of Jesus in us enables us to address God in the same way that Jesus Himself does - “Abba [Daddy], Father”.
Because we have become one with Jesus, our prayer life is actually supposed to be an extension of the prayer life of Jesus Himself!
Notice that Jesus Himself prays.
Who does He pray to?
His Father.
If we really believe that we have become one with Jesus, we will do the same!
“and He made all things subject under His [Jesus’] feet and gave Him authority over everyone in the congregation [church], which is His body, the extension of the One Who fills everything in every way.”
(Ephesians 1:22-23, The One New Man Bible)
Our prayer life is to be an extension of Jesus’ own prayer life.
That’s why Jesus told us to pray in His name:
To act in someone’s name means that you act in their authority and that you represent them.
To pray in the Jesus’ name isn’t just about adding “in the name of Jesus” to the end of your prayer.
It means that your prayer is representing the prayer of Jesus Himself.
It is praying in unison with Jesus.
How can we pray in unison with Jesus?
The answer is simple: by the Holy Spirit
To pray in the Spirit means to pray in union with the Holy Spirit.
He must be the One enegerising, fueling, and carrying our prayer.
He is to be the conductor of our prayer life.
We must not assume that we are praying in the Holy Spirit.
When we are truly praying in the Spirit, our prayers will be characterised by the following:
There will be a divine flow
It as though our prayer is being carried along by a strong current within us.
There will be a divine energy in the prayer
“works” = energei (Greek)
(EN ER GAY)
From which we get our English word “energy”
“The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much”
(James 5:16 NKJV)
The word “fervent” is the same Greek word translated “works” in our previous verse.
It is “energei” (EN ER GAY).
When we are praying in the Holy Spirit, there will be an energy about our prayer that comes from the Spirit.
There will be divine direction
When you are praying in union with the Spirit, you won’t be stuggling to know what to pray.
The Spirit will lead you!
Notice in our opening passage what they did not pray.
They did not pray that the persecution would stop.
They prayed that the apostles would have boldness!
We need to be led in what we say, when we pray.
It is therefore so important, that before we get into the act of making requests about various things, we first get into the right realm.
We must pray from the right realm, and that realm is the Holy Spirit.
Once we are there and experience His leading, we can be confident we are praying the right thing.
You will feel what God feels
One thing that the Holy Spirit does, is He impresses on your heart how God feels about something.
There was a time in Israel’s history when the people began to commit sexual immorality with the women of Moab.
As a result, a plague from God began to come on the people.
Model of intercession.
Note: he was zealous with Me zeal.
When we are praying in the Holy Spirit about something, we will be so united with Him that we feel what He feels, we will be zealous with His zeal.
This is called intimacy with the Holy Spirt and He wants all of us to have it!
Zimri means celebrated
Cozbi means deceitful
We live in an age where all kinds of sexual immorality is celebrated.
But it’s a deception!
We need to be in tune with how God feels about it, because not everything that society celebrates is celebrated by God.
To discern how God feels, we need to be in tune with the Holy Spirit!
In closing...
Prayer is much like learning to drive or learning to swim.
You have to get in the car, get in the pool to begin.
To learn to pray, you have to pray!
Summary
We are to pray to God the Father out of our unison with Jesus
Our prayer life is supposed to be an extension of the prayer life of Jesus Himself
We can pray in unision with Jesus through the Holy Spirit
When we pray in the Spirit, there will be divine flow, divine energy, divine direction, and we will feel what God feels
In order to learn to pray, you have to pray!
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