The precise word that unleashes the blessing

SUMMARY: Sometimes we don't know how to properly formulate our prayers and the Holy Spirit helps us by providing us with the specific language of heaven. Like a good lawyer, the Spirit presents our petitions to God according to His will. The author shares a personal experience of using Psalm 144 during a difficult time of negotiating for construction permits for their church. The Holy Spirit led him to frame the effort in terms of spiritual warfare and to declare God's strength and empowerment over his life. The psalm gave him strength and confidence, and he ultimately achieved victory.

How many of us have it happened that in a moment of prayer we have formulated a request with such unexpected words from our mouth that they left us surprised? However, we darkly understood that those strange and unusual words were precisely the ones that were required for our prayer to hit the mark and unleash the response we were needing.


Perhaps this is the best way to explain the mysterious words of the Apostle Paul in Romans 8:26 concerning the intercessory ministry of the Holy Spirit on our behalf: And in the same way the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for what we should ask as appropriate, we do not know, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with unspeakable groans.