Elevate March 13

we looked at a really awesome passage in the book of Romans, chapter 8.
We started in verse 23 but specifically emphasized versus 26 and 27 and 34.

The idea that the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ work together with our prayers so that they are presented to the father appropriately and in ways we cannot understand is amazing.

But the two main things we wanted to emphasize on this Sat night were.

First, the Holy Spirit helps our prayers end up exactly where they need to. Many times during our prayers we begin to feel like we're fluttering back and forth without a lot of a direction.much like a butterfly looks to us as the flies across the field. Dutch sheets calls this "the butterfly anointing".
This fluttering back and forth up and down to us looks very random, but ultimately the butterfly lands exactly where it's supposed to. The Holy Spirit helps us to do that in our prayers. He may bring things to our spirit to pray for, and we think it seems a little disjointed or up and down, but he is taking us exactly where we need to be.
Secondly the Holy Spirit helps us by lending his weight/power to our needs. It's the concept that the Holy Spirit comes along side of us. All that the Holy Spirit is as God is available to us. Not to be temporarily infused with his power but to have his power, strength, wait come alongside us in partnership to accomplish whatever miraculous opportunity lays before us.

These are two things at the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ do for us when we pray. We have the opportunity to represent Jesus Christ whom we intercede for others in the same way.
We can help them land exactly where they need to land. We can bring them along side God so they can see miracles happen.

Our prayer lives are far more complicated, and really far more interesting when they involve communicating with God and interceding on others' behalf.
Do not let your prayer life become like leaving a message on God's voice recorder, with the hope that he'll get around to listening to it. He is actively participating in making our prayers affective on this earth.