Isaiah 35:6 “and streams in the desert.”

• DAY 12 BIBLE READING

John 7-13


• DAY 12 PRAYER DEVOTIONAL

Isaiah 35:6

HOW DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT HELP US PRAY?

How does the Holy Spirit help us pray? Wesley Duewell says ‘No Christian has fully understood the burden on the heart of the Holy Spirit as He longs for, loves and identifies with all the suffering, heartaches and heartburdens of Christians across the world. There is never a discouragement, a hidden tear, or an unspoken pain that the Holy Spirit does not feel completely and personally. Never an injustice, a sorrow or a heartbreak that the tender Holy Spirit does not feel completely and personally. Never an injustice a sorrow, or a heartbreak that the tender Holy Spirit does not suffer with us.’

‘In addition however the Holy Spirit yearns and longs for all the broken lives, broken homes, hurting unsaved millions of the world. He feels their tragedy. He suffers from their hatred and violence. He carries the suffering of our world upon his holy heart. God the Father God the son and God the Holy Spirit share the same love and the same longings and compassion. The Holy Spirit longs to flood your heart with the holy yearning agape love of the triune God.’

‘Romans 5:5 explains that God pours out his love into your heart by the Holy Spirit. What love is this? It is the love that caused Jesus to come to earth, go to the cross and to die for you v 8. The love that the Spirit longs to pour and flood into your being is the self-giving, longing love of God we see in Jesus.’

‘The Holy Spirit does not want just a minimum portion of that love somehow to rub off or seep into your nature. He longs to pour and pour that love into your being and through you out to the hurting world .He wants this love to be manifested in your words and your actions, but more constantly and perhaps more powerfully than all else, in your praying.’

You can love more people through prayer than any other way. You can love by your prayer, people who avoid or resist you. You can love people anywhere in the world by your prayer. The more you pour out God’s love through your prayer and your actions the more the Spirit will pour in as you ask Him. God gives the Spirit to those who ask. Luke 11:13


• Lord I do not know how to pray. May streams flow in my desert places. Come and fill me with your Holy Spirit. May the self-giving, longing, love of God well up in me . Flood my heart with the yearning love of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. May the love of God gush forth, may it break out in my wilderness and may your love as it flows through me in prayer, heal our suffering, needy lost and broken world.

Duewell, W Mighty Prevailing Prayer 118,119