Holy Spirit Help Us Pray | Elder Ang Peng Hoe

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Prayer is not easy, any of your think. Prayer is

is actually very easy. You pray for Okay, for some people,

it comes very naturally, I have to admit it. But

it's not easy because it's not really a natural act.

It's not something that you do natural thing. Well, it

may be natural in a time of emergency when you're

really desperate and then you shout out. I don't know

whether that's considered a prayer or that's just an exclamatory statement.

But the truth is, yeah, it's not something that you

do normally, and when everything is going smoothly, when life

is as regular as it can get, it's a very

unnatural action. But the truth is we all need help

one way or the other. And if you leave, let's

just say, two thousand years ago, when Jesus was walking

this earth, we could have just gone straight to Jesus

and gotten help, which is exactly what the disciples and

the followers did because they approached him and they said, Lord,

teach us to pray. We need help. But we know

Jesus is not walking this earth anymore. So we can't

just pop up to Jesus and like give me help.

But he did say before he left, he said, I'm

going to go. I'm going to have to go because again,

if you understand my person who in this time and space,

there are limitations. I can't be at everywhere all the time.

And we know Jesus, who walked this earth, had his

limitations in terms of he couldn't be in multiple places

at multiple times. It was just not humanly possible, even

though it was divinely possible. But we knew he emptied

himself of his divinity when he here and walk this world.

And so he says, I have to go because it

is going to be better for all of you when

I go, Because when I go, I will send someone

who is going to be better, better in the sense

that this person can be with you all the time.

And that is the promise of the Holy Spirit that Jesus.

Gave to us.

And so Jesus is the one that sent the Holy Spirit.

He was the one that forewarned us and told us

about the Holy Spirit, told the followers back then, told

the followers to anticipate and to expect the presence of

the Holy Spirit that will come, and you will come

in an evident way. It will come, and they will

know when the Holy Spirit has alive. And so one

of the things the Holy Spirit does is really to

help us at the point of our greatest need. And

what do you think the point of our greatest need is.

I will always just generalize it and see, the point

of our great need is actually the need to pray,

because whenever you start praying, you know you're in need.

You know that is like, okay, Lord, I need your

help seriously. And that is the point of our greatest need.

And that is where, and that is how, and that

is when the Holy Spirit wants to come in. But

the thing is, as scripture has really said, we do

not know how to offer prayer as we should. You

read Romans chapter eight, you actually see the scripture says,

and it's a very honest record of the scripture. Because

sometimes we don't know how to offer prayer, We don't

know how to pray. But the scripture assures us that

the Spirit helps us in our weakness. Hallelujah, Thank you

Jesus for a scripture that reminds us. Because what can

be more delightful than the Holy Spirit helping us in prayer,

because you realize that God is really not one thing

any of us to struggle pray. How many of you

all struggle with prayer. My hands are up unless you

tell me it's the easiest thing to do. I wake

up in the morning, I'm praying, you know, I walk around,

I'm praying. No, Actually, it's a lot of effort for me.

It's a lot of effort. It's not something that comes naturally.

I have to set a designated time sometimes because it's

just not easy to go about praying all the time.

And so what can be more delightful than knowing that

the spirit of God wants to help us to pray,

help us in our weakness. And so you realize that

God does not want us to struggle. He wants to

help us. The Father wants to help us by listening

all the time. And thank God, Father, God in Heaven

is constantly all years listening to our prayers. The Sun

wants to help by praying for you all the time,

by putting think a signature to your request, to your petitions.

That's why as believers we pray in the name of Jesus,

Because every time we pray in the name of Jesus.

You are essentially putting a stem a seal on the prayer.

And that's what the Son wants to do. The Son

wants to help all of us. As we pray in

his name, he is actually sealing it, sealing it so

that the Father is hearing it. And that's what Jesus

is doing. If you think about it, where is Jesus today?

He is, and the scripture record seated at the right

hand of God the Father.

What do you think Jesus is doing.

He's constantly showing God the Father the hands that were peers,

because that's the reminder that these hands were peers for

each and everyone of us. And so if you do

something that is not right, it is Jesus that holds

up his hands to the Father and say, Father, these

are your children who believe in me and believe in

what I have done for them on the cross of Calvary.

And this is proof that you can forgive them and

forget their sins. And that's how God, in all his graciousness,

forgives and forgets our sins. That's how when we appear

before God. And sometimes I think the first thing that

we want to do naturally when we see God is

probably to confess. I don't know, maybe it's our words,

like I didn't do anything wrong. I think if we

meet Almighty God, one who has got no fault in him,

I think the first thing that you will do is

when you meet him at the polygates.

I don't know.

I don't know how heaven is going to look like exactly,

but it's like, God, forgive me for all the wrong

that I've done.

But you know what God's responds will be.

You'll probably be something like, I don't know what you're

talking about. What wrong are you talking about? Because I

don't see any wrong. All I see is the righteousness

of my Son upon your life. And that is what

Jesus's name is in prayer. It's that seal in that petition,

and so we are grateful. Father wants to help by

listening all the time. Son wants to help by praying

for you all the time, putting his signature to your petition.

And it doesn't just end there. The Holy Spirit wants

to help on his end by getting the.

Prayer going in the first place.

You know, is the Holy Spirit that listen us, that

actually helps us to even pray.

And what more help could you ask.

For than the Holy Spirit praying in you, Jesus waiting

to catch it and pass it on, and then the

Father waiting to receive it. A Christian has all that

he or she can ask for when it comes to

help for prayer. Because the Trinity is at work in

our lives. The Trinity God, the Father, God, the Son God,

the Holy Spirit is at work in our lives. And

so the prepositions are very very important. We pray to

the Father. We pray to the Father through the Sun

in the Spirit against the devil, with the saints collectively

by ourselves, because in a way, prayer is but you

need to utter those prayers. Even when we come out

and we do corporate prayer, let's just say we do

this centralized prayer and everyone hates over to Syringing residence,

it is still every individual praying coming together collectively. Yes,

there is power in corporate prayer. There is power in

it because the Church is known as the house of

prayer for the nations. But yet we are still praying

by ourselves. It's very very important that we remember these prepositions.

Pray to the Father through the Son in the Spirit

against the devil, with the saints by ourselves. And this

is why in Ephicients, chapter six, verse eighteen, the reminder

is to pray at all times in the spirit. That

is the clear reminder. And that reminder came if I'm

not mistaken, after all the you know, the helmet of salvation.

What's that caused? Only the armor of God? Sorry my pray. Sorry,

brain jam for a while after the Armor of God.

After talking about the armor of God, then it came

to this where it says pray at all times in

the spirit.

What does that even mean?

In fact, you know, it's more important that you should

pray in the spirit rather than just pray in church.

Sometimes we are saying, oh, we must come to church

to pray. Sometimes we are like, oh, we have to

make sure we pray in the bed room when we

wake up and when we do our quiet time or

wherever else is it. But actually the best place to

pray is in the spirit because it puts a different

and a new dimension to every other prayer. Some people, yes,

they equate the church as a place where I come

to pray. That means I can only pray in church,

or I can only pray when I'm in the room

my own room, praying, doing my quiet time. But if

you think about it, when you are praying in the spirit,

it puts you in a different dimension altogether, because immediately

there is direct access wherever you are. It really does

not matter what building you're in, but the sphere of

it is what matters most.

That is what praying in the spirit means.

There is a particular sphere that we are in when

we are praying in the spirit, and that sphere is

not defined by the physical structure that is surrounding you,

but it's defined by who lives in us.

Amen. And so the.

Reality is this, we all have difficulties when it comes

to praying and science. For some of you, no, I

don't think there's a lot of difficulties, but you think

about it. There is the difficulty of talking to someone

we cannot see, hear, or touch. How many of y'all

ever been in a long distance relationship? Or Nike and

Amanda it's like yeah, or Minjo and team as well.

You know how far Binang and kal or Australia. Oh

he said, no, no, no, it's much further Melbourne and care.

I don't know.

Will you away in a long distance relationship guys for

a moment, is it okay?

Yeah?

And it's not easy right when there is no physical

presence when you're communicating. So the truth is it is

quite difficult sometimes to talk to someone that you cannot see.

But this one not just cannot see. No, in a

way science we cannot hear, so we cannot touch as all.

At least now with modern technology, you can see each other,

you can hear each other. Thank God for Zoom and

for all the conferencing platforms that we have today to

facilitate and to help with communications. But it's difficult because

we cannot see God, we cannot hear God, we cannot

touch God. Sometimes it's difficult just knowing what to say

when we feel that we finally got true No ever

come to this place, Okay, okay, God, I'm gonna talk

to you right now, and then you're like, oh, suddenly

we're all tongue tight. And sometimes it's difficult because we

ask for things that we don't need. Sometimes we even

ask for things that may not be good for us.

That's the reality of it.

And sometimes it's difficult because our thoughts wonder how many

of you ever have wondering thoughts. I have it all

the time, especially when we are sitting down praying.

Right.

No science, We use our devices, you know, to read scripture.

Then notifications come and it wonders. Our mind wonders. That's

just the reality of it. And so you can make

a long list of all the problems, but basically the

main thing is actually knowing.

What to say, say and saying it.

Ultimately, it is the prayer is so challenging because sometimes

we don't know what to say. It starts with that,

and that is what happens. You ask a child to pray,

that's always the thing. What do I say? How do

I do it? It's the same for all of us.

If you're a new believer and we say, hey, pray,

why didn't you pray? And the first thing that comes

to our mind is what do I say? How do

I pray? And so when the disciples said Lord, teach

us to pray, they were essentially saying, Lord, teach us

a prayer. It was actually almost a cry like, hey,

what do we do? Is there something you know, is

there some act that we have to do? Is there

something in somewhere we have to face something that we

have to do? And you know that was them actually

desperately one thing to know what prayer is, and they

are essentially saying, Lord, will you give us a form

of words because we really do not know what to say?

And that was how the Lord's Prayer was actually given

to us. And what a wonderful, powerful prayer that we

have right now today, a prayer that Jesus taught his

disciples and taught all his followers to pray our Father

who is in heaven, Hello, be your name. And there's

so much that we can learn from that prayer. But

essentially it was a bunch of words that Jesus gave

to the disciples. And therefore what the Holy Spirit does

is take what we want to say and cannot get

out and cannot express, and then he lists it down

for us and then he sends it on. Isn't that

the best help one could ever ask for? Because, like

I said, I started by saying that we don't have

Jesus to go to and ask him for a bunch

of words for us to pray today, even though we

are grateful that we have the Lord's Prayer recorded in

scripture that we pray all the time. And that's why

I encourage people start off the day by praying the

Lord's prayer, especially if you think there are no words.

I'm tongue tied, I don't even know where to start. Well,

this is the best place to start off with the

Lord's prayer. But you know, our prayer life is not

just the Lord's prayer, because that can be prayed and

added in less than one minute. I think in fifteen

seconds you're probably done with the Lord's prayer. And so

the Holy Spirit wants to actually bring us to a

place to help us express. And that's why I believe

prayer in the Spirit has two aspects to it, very

distinct expects to it, which I want to teach. I

know it sounds a little bit deep, but I pray

with this understanding. It brings you to a different level

in terms of your own prayer life, because again we

are in the midst of forty days of prayer and fasting.

So what are the two different aspects? Okay, let me

try to define it my simple understanding. Okay, there is

prayer in the spirit where the Spirit takes over your

mind and gives you the right thoughts which you then

have a responsibility to express. Okay, that is one kind

of prayer in the spirit, when you are praying what

He has put in your mind. Ever experience that, ever

ask God what to pray for? Because onless we don't

even do it. We think, we think very hard what

to pray. But I've come to this place where really

I'm quite desperate, especially if you stand up here. You know,

on Sunday the prayer support team come up, and then

people walk up. Some people walk up to you. It'll

be nice if they tell you what's going on, and

then you can pray and understanding. Someone just walk up

to you in tears, and then you ask God, what

is it that I need to pray for this person? Really,

there is that dependency, and so the spirit can take

over our mind and give us the right thoughts, which

we then have the responsibility to express. Okay, that's one

form of prayer. And then there is another form of

prayer in which he does not use your mind, but

he takes over your mouth and you have the responsibility

to move your mouth and your tongue. Hence, this is

a case where your cooperation is simply to use your mouth.

I will explain and I'll teach, but I pray that

we understand it from this angle. So in one case,

it is the spirit acting on your mind and you

taking responsibility of translating mind into mouth. And then in

the other case, the responsibility is to forget your mind

and let him have your mouth and use it.

That's what we see, and.

These are the two kinds of prayers that we see

in the scriptures. Both these kinds of prayers are praying

in the spirit, Amen, and without praying in the spirit,

prayer is simply telling God what you feel, what you want,

or what you think is needed in a particular city,

because it is coming from your mind and it's coming

from your mouth. And yes, you can offer it through

Jesus to the Father. But if you want to compare

this to both cases that I just mentioned above, praying

in the spirit is where the Holy Spirit is giving

you the right thoughts to express, or has bypassed your

mind and is giving you the actual words to say.

That's the difference, because yes, we can pray in our

own flesh and understanding. A lot of times I do

that all the time. I need to find out what's happening,

I need to read the newspaper, and then you're on

your knees praying ready right in today's day and age.

Or you hear about something, or you hear about someone.

But this is taking it to the next level where

the Holy Spirit. When we are praying the Spirit, we

are asking the Holy Spirit you give us the words

or you use our mouth. Because what is essentially happening

is the Holy Spirit.

Does not pray for you.

It says he helps us in our weakness. The scripture

never says he takes over and just does it for us.

That means we are in no controller or no. He helps

us in our weakness. The Holy Spirit helps us, and

in fact he prays with us, and we need to

cooperate with him if we are going to pray in

the spirit. There is a cooperation that is ongoing. So

I give you a simple example. If you are unawell,

if you are a sickness and the Holy Spirit tells

us that he does not help us, just get healed.

Sometimes all way one is like, God, take away this sickness,

and that's the only way in which I believe that

you are real. But more often than not, what he

does is he helps us in and with the sickness.

Sometimes God wants us to.

Go through it.

When we actually ultimately want him to get read of it.

He's saying, no, go through it, because I will be

with you more often than not. Life's challenges is always

like that. If God eradicated every challenge in your life,

every obstacle, every painful experience, I don't know if we

will ever learn because we learn from these challenges. We

learn from problems that arise, We learn from resistance. That

is the reality of it. And so the Holy Spirit

is not there to just remove science. We think God

is like Santa Claus. Either give us things or take

things away, take the bad things away and leave the

good stuff with us. But he's not Santa Claus. He

is there to help us, and that's what the Holy

Spirit does. He is there not to pray for you. Science,

we think, Holy Spirit, you think over I have nothing

to do and know all of it requires Earth to

still be cooperating with the Holy Spirit. Very very important. Okay,

you're still with me. So let us take the influence

of the Holy Spirit firstly on the mind. And I

want to teach us and I want to encourage us. This

is something called the mental prayer. Okay, it still takes

your mind mental The prayer of the mind in which

your mind is fully involved with conscious thoughts. It is

the Holy Spirit that has placed these thoughts there in

some way. Sometimes he plays the thoughts there true and impression.

Sometimes he places a thought thrue there because of a burden.

Sometimes he plays a thought in there because of a

truer memory. Sometimes it's true a circumstance. You ever find

yourself suddenly you thought or something, or suddenly you are

prompted and I want, I think I need to pray

for this person.

You know, time and time again it has.

Happen, And this is the Holy Spirit really putting something

in your mind, something that you should be praying for.

Because when you do not know what to pray for,

this is where I want to encourage us. Why not

ask Him to tell you what to pray for. There

are days, and there are many days in my own

journey where I'm saying, God, give me the right words

to pray.

I don't even know what to say.

When you know someone is in need and you do

not know what that need is, why not ask God

to tell you what the need is. What is it

that you should be praying for that person? Because sometimes

when the person comes up and tells you his or

her need. Ever find yourself like, yeah, that is your need.

But I want to also pray something which I believe

is beyond what you can think, but what God has

put in my heart to pray for you. And that's

something that's very very important. And because you be astonished

how often God actually puts thoughts in your mind and

how accurate those thoughts are for different ones as you

continue to exercise this gift, it's very important. And sometimes

it's not even an obvious need. But you prayed for someone,

and ever had someone come out to you and say,

you know, many years ago you prayed, you prayed something

for me, And of course most of the time you

were like, serious, I don't remember why I say it.

Probably you'll be like, who are you?

You know?

But the truth is the Lord uses us when we

are sensitive and we are wanting and when we are

yearning for him to speak to us. Because when we

are praying, the spirit in this mental where the Spirit

helps us not only with the mind, but also with

the heart and the will. So that essentially what is

happening is our whole personality is being prompted. Our whole

personality is being quicken. That's what it means by being

quickened in the spirit, because your spirit is not just hard,

it's also mind, it's also will. And so usually when

we pray, you will realize again this is how we

are made up. You realize that you encounter some of

these problems, the problems that we encounter. Firstly, problems of

the heart. Sometimes I do not have a strong enough

desire to pray right. Ever, find yourself in that situation,

because the reality is, as humans, if we really want

to do something, we will do it. Human nature is

as such, right if you put your mind to it,

I want to If I really want to exercise, I

want to run this marathon, and I'm going to make

sure I train for it, you will put your mind

to it. If you really like something, you will put

your mind to it.

You do it.

You love pickaball, you will play it every weekend, Alida,

nothing wrong with that. So the problem is sometimes the heart,

there is a lack of desire because obviously I don't

want it enough. That's the first problem that we all

face with the heart. The second problem we face is

with the mind. And I mentioned just now wandering thoughts.

Sometimes it's so difficult for us to concentrate sometimes. Know

as I'm sharing, and if that it's a football match

yesterday and my team just lost, I'll be in a

lousy mood.

That's the reality of it. Lousy.

That's how sometimes I realize, Man, this football thing is

messing up my life. Uh no, how do I even?

But I find myself, you know, feeling for a football

club that I have no association with, not like I

live in that place, grew up supporting the I mean crazy,

It's crazy how sometimes we associate ourselves. But the truth is,

sometimes our mind is wondering and it's so hard to concentrate.

And the third problem is the will.

It's a matter of discipline, and the truth is desired direction, determination.

These are things that don't come easily, and you need

a pretty strong personality to achieve some of these things.

And this is precisely the point in which the Holy

Spirit says, let me help you with this treat areas

if you would allow me to. Because what the Spirit

wants to do is the Spirit wants to give you

passion in your prayer. The Spirit wants to give you

perception in your prayer. And the Spirit wants to give

you persistence in your prayer. Have you ever thought of

asking for these treatings? Sometimes we don't even realize, But

there are days when I find myself saying, Lord, give

me a passion to pray, so that my heart wants too,

because sometimes the heart just doesn't want to. But Lord,

give me a passion. You know, I've been in x

for a long time, since two thousand and five. I

don't know if I've ever missed prayer services unless I'm

not in town, or I'm unwell or I'm sick. But

other days when I'm like, I really need to go

for prayer service. Yes, it's like come again. No, it's

like praying through a list of things. No do I

But really, there are days when I find myself, Lord

give me passion for prayer, because it's so important sometimes

that we lack the desire, so pray that God gives

you the passion. Sometimes we are praying, God, give me

perception so that my mind knows what to ask for,

because a lot of times our mind is stuck and

our mind doesn't know what.

To ask for.

That's why we are clueless. When he comes to prayer,

ask God to give us perception. And sometimes what we

really need is God give us persistence that we will

keep on asking until we get it, because a lot

of times when it comes to prayer, the lack of

persistence is really the kill all. It's like, I ask, ready,

he never answered. I talk to him Ready, he turned

a death fear to me. I ask once and no

response is I take it as putai ta. I know

there's a Chinese song curtain, I can't. It means the

guess is here to look for your father, but the

Father is not home, and so bye bye, says the guests.

But persistence is so needed. And so you can always

tell when someone is praying in the spirit, even when

their minds is involved, and that they know their thinking.

Because if you're praying the spirit, full of passion, full

of perception, and full of persistence, you will also see

certain things that become very evident in your life. Firstly,

you will notice that the will of the Father will

come true.

Why do I say that?

Because the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness, and

he prays with us according to the good and acceptable

will of the Father. Amen, and you will find yourself. No,

sometimes you always use this I call it a cheat

cod God. If it be your I let it happen.

It's like the cheek got prayer. I know it's like God,

if it be, or will, let it happen.

But I'm encouraging you.

We don't have to say put a condition like that

to catch it all. But we should really allow our

minds to be passionate, to be persistent, to have the

right perception. Because what we are essentially saying is, Lord,

tell me what your will is, so that I can

pray your will come to pass for this person. We

can do that because when you do that again, you

will see the will of the Father coming true. The

second thing you'll notice is if the spirit is in

your mental prayer, the glory of.

Jesus will be there as well.

You will find that if someone is praying in the spirit,

that thoughts.

Will always live Jesus up. You see that.

You realize that there are some people that you talk

to them every time, they are always in this almost

very prayerful More, they'll be like not all glory to Jesus, No, God,

bless you Jesus be lifted up on high. Those sciences.

We think all these holy holy people big kukui. But

I really believe if you are completely aligned, you will

keep glorifying Jesus. It means you take no glory, you

will glorify Jesus. And the third thing is this, someone

who is praying in the spirit will It's very clear

the will of the Father is going to be evident,

the glory of the Sun is going to be evident.

Then the truth of scripture is also going to be

very evident in your life, because again the spirit is

the one that brings all these three aspects together. Think

about it, who wrote the scriptures? Who wrote the scriptures?

It's actually the Holy Spirit, because it's people who were

inspired by the Holy Spirit who put pen to paper,

wrote all those scriptures on scrolls, and then after that

it was somehow copied with no photos that machine.

Think about it.

Know, the fact that we have God's word with uth

today is nothing short of a miracle, because we have

thousands of copies of the manuscripts from the original manuscript

in the time when there is no xerox machine. You

think about it, it's nothing short of a miracle. But

it's started off by someone inspiring these people, and it's

the Holy Spirit. And so you will realize that as

you are praying in the spirit, you will echo God's

word because it's the spirit that wrote the Bible. That's

why you find that sometimes when there are some people

who are praying, they're always quoting scripture, because again it's

the spirit that wrote the Bible.

Amen.

And so the thoughts of someone praying in the spirit

will be clear about the will of the Father, the

glory of the Sun, and the truth of the scripture.

And the Spirit will bring those three expects in prayer.

And once again you see the Trinity at work even

in our prayer life. And so this is the help

the Spirit wants to give you at the mental level,

directing your mind in prayer, giving a desire in your

heart to pray, giving a perception in your mind so

that you know what the will of God is, giving

a determination in your will so that you keep on

carrying on asking until you receive it, and then leading

you ultimately to exhort Jesus and to draw the truth

from the scripture. That is what the Holy Spirit does

for us, Amen. And it all seems to fit together

into this pattern. It means that I am responsive and

open to him in my mind. I'm listening mentally to

get what the Spirit is saying to me, so that

the prayer becomes not my mental prayer, but it becomes

he is mental prayer, and I'm thinking the spirit's thoughts

after him. All we need to do is express it.

And this is where I want to encourage us. There

is this first level of mental prayer, Amen, and then

there is the other kind, the one that Paul says,

the mind becomes unproductive. Okay, And I know sometimes this

is something that can be a little bit controversial depending

on where you come from, but we are a spirit

field and a spirit led church. In other words, in

this kind of prayer, the Spirit is there, but there

are no thoughts at all, because the Holy Spirit takes

over at another level. He takes over at the mount level,

and he prays a prayer that is beautiful, which you

have not needed to think of anything. And sometimes I

really am so great. It's such a relief not to

be able to pray a prayer that you don't have

to think about because you think praying is an easy.

No, it takes a lot of thinking.

You are half the time unless you are a I

don't know, a verbal diarrhea kind of person, or your

vocabulary is awesome. A lot of times we are constantly

thinking what to pray, how to pray, how not to

offend people in our prayers. No, we are constantly thinking God,

So it is. It is a big effort sometimes even

to pray. But I am so grateful that there is

a prayer where you can do it even if you're tired.

You can do it even while you're driving. We pray

and rit or you can get into accidents or no. Really,

because if your mind is really focused on prayer, and

it is sometimes we are, you know, even praying in

the spirit with our mind. We need to know what

is it that God is impressing upon you to say?

And so our focus and our mind sometimes it is not.

But Harley Luiah, the fact that we can pray in

the spirit, where the spirit just ticks over our mouth

and it requires no mental concentration whatsoever, especially at the

time where sometimes we are stuck forwards. I am so

grateful that there is this kind of prayer. And I

think this is such a lovely, gracious gift from God

to give us this form of help in prayer. So

what does a prayer that has not come from someone's

mind sound like? And sometimes it could be your longings.

Sometimes it could be your burdens. Sometimes it could be

your passions that's so deep. Sometimes it could be groanings

and moanings and you cannot really put them into words.

And this is essentially the Spirit interceding for us. And

you know, the Holy Spirit can give you total fluency

in any language he knows. That is my faithful and

humble belief. You think about it. There are about six

thousand languages. I believe the Holy Spirit knows every single one.

This is just known languages. Think about the many other

languages that there are there but we don't know about it.

That could be even more. But I believe the Holy

Spirit knows every single one of it. And the Holy

Spirit is able to give us this wonderful fluency in

any language that he knows. And that's what happened on

the day of Pentecost because they were all in one accord,

in one place, and they were all filled with Holy Spirit,

and they all begin to speak in are the languages

as the Holy Spirit put the words together and strings

it and helps them with this new language. You see,

the devil hates this because he knows it sets people

free in prayer. Do you know how liberating this form

of prayer is, and the devil hates it because he

knows that every word of that prayer will be just right,

because this is not something that we can contrive out

of our own knowledge and understanding, and that is why

the devil will do anything he can do to turn

people off, to turn people away from this and to

say that you do not need it, to say that

this is wrong, and sometimes to even say that this

is from some people. Some people tell me that why

are you praying tongues? That's from the devil. And I'm

actually very careful with a statement like that, because for me,

that is you are tittering on blesspheming the Holy Spirit,

because what the Holy Spirit has given to us, we

are saying that it is of the devil. And I

pray we don't have that mindset. I know sometimes there

are different understandings and different ways of interpreting the scripture

that sometimes we may not completely buy into it. But

I pray today that you understand that this is a

gift from the Holy Spirit.

It is not off the devil.

Don't have that in mind, because you see the apostle

Paul actually says this, I wish you could all speak

in tongues.

He said it.

Yes, he made a comparison with prophecy, and he says

it'd be even better if you can prophesy. But that

does not negate the fact that he says, I wish

you all could pray in tongues, and I hope we

could understand the simplicity of giving the Holy Spirit your

mouth and letting him pray through you, because it is

a prayer in which the Lord supplies every word for you,

and God say, here is a prayer to pray to me.

It is only those who are prepared to become little

children and learn a new language. So you got to

start with baby talk, and that's what sometimes causes a

lot of words to like her. There's always that barrier.

Not a new language. You learn any new language. It's

not something that you become fluent overnight. It takes time,

it takes practice. But it is still a beautiful gift

in a way, if you think about it. It was

the very first gift that the Lord gave to the church.

That's how I view it, because x Chapter two was

when they all gathered. And sometimes people say, but it's

actually a very low like in terms of hierarchy or gifts,

it's a low gift. Well, you could say that, but

I will always also say it's the best one to

begin with, because ever find yourself not knowing how to

pray as a Christian when it should be the most

natural thing for us to do.

That's why I believe this is a beautiful gift to

begin with.

Yes, if you want to compare it with the other

gifts of the spirit, there are others which can do

even more, the prophetic gifts. But it is a very

special gift, one which is very personal to every believer.

And that's why at the Upper Room prior to the Pentacost,

what were they doing. One hundred and twenty people met

every day for ten days in prayer. Read the scriptures,

you'll see that they met together in prayer. They all

were having their mental prayers. But on the day of Pentecosts,

they switched from mental prayer to a completely different kind

of prayer, in which God had their mouths, not their minds,

and He poured out his spirit and they were free

and they were praising him. That's what he says in

x chapter one and two. If we see the records,

so this is a gift I believe primarily for personal usage,

for self edification. The scriptures will tell you that. And

this is why Paul said he would be delighted if

all of you could speak in tongue.

Why not if it's.

Something that can build you up, Because ultimately, yes, I

know sometimes people always say it's such a selfish gift,

it's for yourself ony, But what do you think and

edified Christian will do, and edified Christians will.

Build the body.

Yes, all the other gifts is very clear is for

the building of the body of believers, and tongues is

also for the building of the body of believers, if

there is interpretation. But I believe for your own personal use.

When you are edified, what do you think you will do?

And edified Christian will build the body of Christ, will

continue to strengthen the Body of Christ.

That is what we will do. And so the.

Primarily primary use of the gift is to help us

when we are stuck, and a lot of times we

are stuck.

And the law wants to help you in your personal prayer.

And this is such an amazing gift because if you

read about Paul, you realizeless we talk about Paul and realize, oh,

his amazing missionary. He's an apostle, awesome dude who ran around,

you know, just evangelizing nations and planting churches. But you

don't realize Paul actually had a tremendous prayer life. And

that's why he says, I thank God that I speak

in languages more than all of you. And there you

hit the secret of Paul's prayer life. What is the power?

Where is the power? How does he draw? How does

he keep ongoing? How does someone who has been stoned,

someone who has been shipwrecked, someone who has been bitten,

someone who has been given thirty nine stripes on more

than one occasion. How did he manage it all?

How did he support himself?

And Paul says that he thanks God he has this

way of praying and that he can use it more

than all the Corinthians put together. Here you discovered the

secret of Paul's prayer life is that he used all

the gifts that the Holy Spirit has given to him.

And so when Paul was bitten and when he was tired,

he knew that he could pray without mental effort. Ever

tried praying when you were exhausted you know, I shed

with the plant Subang last week. So I have this

tall tree outside my house and from time to time

I have to climb the tree to trim it. Uh.

I did it about six months ago, and six months

later it grew up. So six months ago I trimmed

the tree. And the letter I was using was a

pretty old letter. I think be using it for thirty

or forty years. Thirty years my dad used to use it, okay.

Uh.

And so I remember when I came down the tree

at the highest point, the letter started to bend, it

sort of gave way and I've got you Australia is

quite heavy, uh.

And it started the band.

And then for a moment, for a moment there, I

saw my whole life flashing because I could see myself falling.

I could see myself falling. Thank God, I really the

Lord helped me to land, not very gracefully, but I

landed minimum injuries.

Okay.

But my mom saw it all, and so she was

like she freaked out. She was like she's just screaming

because again, twenty years ago, my dad climbed the tree,

saw it and he fell and he sort of impaled

himself against the fence. So my mom is a little

bit traumatized, really okay traumatized. I did it again to

her act she was screaming. Didn't help. And so this

time I wanted to go up again. I wanted to

go up because it's starting to encroach. I just get

that you'll hit the power lines.

And also I had to.

Go up to trimming a little bit again, but this

time I got a lot more. There is the natural fear.

I have to admit there was a natural fear. And

then my mom constantly don't do it, don't do it,

don't do it. So instead of encouraging me and helping me,

she's like, don't do it, don't do it. You know,

have the tire, Like can you just help me? Steady

the leader and don't say anything. But she's like, So

I ran up and I learned one thing, Uh don't

don't trim the tree after you run five km. Don't

tream the tree when you're fasting. Because I went up

and I didn't have I usually have a miniature chain saw,

which I didn't have this time around because I thought

I saw from Afar the shoots looked like a saw.

Is enough.

Then up close and personal it was much ticker than Yeah,

so anyway, but I only have the manual saw, which

I had to saw upwards, and for the first time

I was I was actually very red tired. I was

so tired I thought I was going to black. I

was just hugging, hugging the tree like a koala a koalah.

And you know, there are days I realized when you're

just so tired, you do it even know what to pray.

And all I did was I just started praying in

the language that the Lord has given me because I

can't even think of it. I can't remember like Lord

helped me, seriously, because part of me it's like you

stupid fool, are you? You're the one that went now

under all these circumstances. But but I found myself just

praying in the language because again I was just so

exhausted I couldn't think. And that's why I sort of

can identify when you know, when you read how did

Paul pray unceasingly having gone through all that he had

went through? Really, I think sometimes you are in a broken, beaten,

exhausted state that no matter how much you think you

can conjure up thoughts to pray, you won't be able

to do it, because I believe he prayed in these languages,

and it is clear it is not something for us

to think that it's a less gif is not a

good thing to have in our life. It's something that

belongs only in Paul's time, only during the Apostolic time. No,

I believe this is something that the Lord wants to

give us, and so you have to ask yourself, would

I like such a gift? Because really, coming from me personally,

this is one of the best gifts that the Lord

can give to every believer. And that is how I

discover that there is a kind of prayer in the

spirit that God wants to help us with. So don't

let anyone, don't let the devil tell you or anyone

else tell you that this is not right, because really

the devil wants to stop it. Can you imagine everyone

praying in the spirit, every believer praying in the spirit,

the enemy will be really afraid. And this is where

I want to encourage us. Don't let anything or anyone

divert your attention from this. Go back to the scriptures.

Don't even take my word for it. You go back

to the scriptures. And read it and tell me if

this is not something that God wants to give, because

ultimately we come to a very practical thing right now.

How No, we talk about praying the spirit?

Yeah, you talk.

I give you the theory of how it works, how

God can feel your mind, how he can take over

your tongue. But how how do we actually even get started?

And I can tell you it's in two wards on me,

And I'm referring to both praying both forms that means

the mental form and also the form that does not

require the mental thoughts. Because in First Corinthians chapter fourteen fifteen,

Paul says, I pray with my mind and I pray

with my spirit. So it's two kinds of prayer. And

Paul tells us that he does both, and so the

how applies to both. And these are the two words

that sometimes we don't realize, but it's there. Basically, it's

ask and receive. You see, everybody who is helped in

prayer has first asked. And the text is from Luke

chapter eleven. Remember the text from Luke chapter eleven. It says,

ask sick and knock us sick and knock. Sometimes we

think it's the one is the best give voucher for us.

Know this is the way that God wants us to

go and redeem all our things. Yes, in a way, Yes,

because it's not us one time. No, it's us and

carry on asking. You know, I live it When Selena prays,

Selena mentions the word continues repeatedly. I don't know whether

there is an automated thing in her. But if you realize,

I say, Okay, now she's gonna be super conscious. But

she will say God, continue, continue to help, continue to

do this. You know, God is continuous. In fact, if

there is one word to describe God, you can use

the word always.

Always.

We are the ones that sometimes know when we do

things is one time only, and so science we like

ask one time and then never hear bye bye. Seek

One time I sought the Lord, he didn't appear, bye bye,

knock and no one opened the door bye by no.

Actually the scripture is in the continuous tense. That means,

if you read it, it says you have to read it,

ask and continue asking, or ask and carry on asking,

seek and carry on seeking, not and carry on knocking

until something happens and he doesn't just end there. Again,

it's not a gift voucher, prayer or a scripture that's

talking about how you go and readeem gifts. It's really

talking about the Holy Spirit. Because the part of the

Word says this, if you, who are evil know how

to give good gifts to your children, how much more

will your heavenly Father give holy Spirit to those who

go on asking him. So it's as simple as ask,

do you want this, then us until you get it,

because God loves to answer those who are bold enough

to us and persist in asking. But there is another sign,

and this is where the problem sometimes occurs. In a sense,

there is a surrender involved on our side, on our part,

an act of surrender, an act of letting go and

letting God. I need to let go and I need

to let God take over. You see, the one thing

most of us hate to do is to let go

of our self control because we feel that if we

do that, we may end up in chaos. We don't

like that. But I tell you this, the fruit of

the Spirit. One of the care characteristics of the Fruit

of the Spirit is self control. And if you get

his self control, believe me, it is much better than yours.

And it's a genuine gift of the spirit. A genuine

gift of the spirit has no loss of self control

about it whatsoever. Sometimes we think, oh, you know, the

Spirit comes over, these people start to behave in some weird,

strange way.

They're all out of control.

If it has it is not the spirit, because Paul

teaches that the spirit of the Prophet is subject to

the Prophet. Therefore, the Holy Spirit graciously puts this gift

under your control, so no one needs to be afraid

of being rushed beyond what they control. You decide whether

you let him take over or not. And if you

do not like it when he takes over, you can

stop it. That is the reality it. But I believe

you will not want to. If you allow the Holy

Spirit to take over, you will not want him to

stop because you think about it. If you have experienced

the goodness of God, so ask. It's the first thing

that we need to do. But then there is a

second part. You know, if I have a chocolate bar,

and I don't know what that Joel is a chocolate level.

But if I offer him a chocolate, if he doesn't

receive it, he ain't going to be eating that chocolate.

That's the reality of it. A lot of us don't

know how to receive.

But it's a.

Simple task sometimes because the biggest problem with many people

is they ask and they never receive. Sometimes they never

position themselves. We got to position ourselves to receive. There

is a posture of reception. If Joel's hands are in

his pocket, that is not a posture your reception, unlest

I'm going to feed him the chocolate, which I'm not

going to do because God doesn't just want to spoon

feed you everything. There is something that's very important for

us to receive. You see, any gift, the gift of

the Holy Spirit, and any gifts of the Holy Spirit

are all grace gifts. That's where the word carries mata

comes from.

These are all gifts given. The Holy Spirit is a

gift given to us.

Not because we earn the right to have the Holy

Spirit in our lives.

No, it's a grace gift.

That means we did not do anything to deserve it,

but God gave it to us. That means you still

need to receive the gift. Any gift offered before you.

If you don't receive it, essentially you are refusing it.

So that means in reception. There is also refusee and

I pray we will not refuse because sometimes we are

in a place where we don't want it. Or maybe

that's my understanding, or maybe I've been I've been taught

that this.

Is not something that I should receive.

I'm saying, if you believe the scriptures and go back

and read it for yourself, and if the Lord is

tugging in your heart, and if you are already asking Lord,

I want and need more of you. It is Jesus

who baptizes us in Holy spirit. Ask Jesus to baptize

you in holy spirit, because it is true this baptism,

that we receive this gift. Really, sometimes it involves a

bigger psychological hurdle. Sometimes hearing our own voice makes strange sounds,

say strange things that we don't know what it is

that we don't understand. That is a big hurdle for

many of us. So as we look at other people

who were like what mum, jumple, what gibberish?

I was once like that.

Until it came because I knew and I understood, Lord,

this is something for me. I don't know what they're saying.

It meant nothing. I was a new not even a

new believer. I was a pre believer, and all those

things that they were doing was didn't make sense.

And that's why the scriptures.

Put in those warnings and those reminders of how the

usage forbid in public should be like.

But that does not negate.

The fact that Called wants all of us to be

able to be praying in the spirit, not just.

In the mental way, but also through our mouths.

So the real hurdle sometimes is in our minds. Psychologically,

there is that barrier here. God wants to give you

a language. He wants to give you the fluency some

wor's thing or his baby talk. I don't need baby

talk in my life. I need words that make sense. Yeah,

we have, we are all given the mental faculty. But

like I say, you know, there are days when all

the mental faculty that you have won't even be able

to produce words because it could be just so tired,

you could just be so stucked. But yet we have

this gift where the spirit is praying to us. I

pray that we will not say no to this because

it starts off not by us just waiting for it

to happen. You know, Peter, before you walk the water.

Jesus didn't ask him to go and pray about it

and read the Bible.

Jesus says saying, come.

He didn't say a get on your knees, pray that

you'll be able to walk on one network. He says, come.

And you know, every spiritual gift is like that. You

do not know if you have the give of healing

really until you start laying hands on people. And sometimes

that's what we need to do. And so when your

spirit receives a strong impression that you could do something,

why not just step out, step out of the boat

and do it.

And then is how gives a development.

That is how you receive them because you have already

overcome the psychological barrier and you're saying, I want this.

And I'm going to receive it. I'm going to receive it.

This is my encouragement to all of us.

This is how you discover every other gift, and this

is how you pray in the spirit. You ask Lord,

I'm I need your help, I need your Holy Spirit.

I cannot pray as I ought.

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