Is it a question of how we may know the will of God in our lives?
Are we concerned to know the secret of victory over sin?
Have we difficulty in understanding the Scriptures?
Is it the problem of how to witness effectively for the Lord?
The scripture says- “All who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God” (Rom. 8:14).
– “The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death” (Rom. 8:2).
– “The Holy Spirit . . . will teach you all things” (John 14:26).
– “The Spirit of truth . . . will guide you into all the truth” (John 16:13).
– “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses” (Acts 1:8).
How to prevail in prayer. “The Spirit helps us in our weakness,” “The Spirit Himself intercedes for us” (Rom. 8:26). The gracious ministry of the Holy Spirit is God’s complete answer to all our weakness, ignorance and inability in the realm of prayer. our Lord gave His followers their fullest unfolding of the promised Holy Spirit.
The early church was without doubt a praying church, and what tremendous things they accomplished through prayer alone: prison doors were opened, fanatical opponents were struck down and converted to Christ, signs and wonders were done. But the open secret was that the early church knew the presence and power of the Holy Spirit, not theoretically but experientially. Those first believers were mighty in prayer because they were mighty in the Spirit.
We have only to scan the pages of Acts to discover that the early church met and overcame every great crisis in their early history with the weapon of “all prayer.” Read, in Acts 4, that account of the first recorded prayer meeting of the young Jerusalem church for an example of anointed praying. What boldness! What power! What authority! Little wonder the place where they were assembled was shaken and they were all filled anew with the Holy Spirit. So the enduement of the Spirit was both the cause and the consequence of their effectual praying. They prayed because they were filled, and they were filled because they prayed. A victorious circle!