In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, the Holy Spirit, our helper in prayer.

One of the most powerful privileges you and I have is the privilege of prayer.

That is that we have the privilege of

personally talking to the only true living God. And the wonder of it all is this, that God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit are all involved every single time we pray. And I'm

persuaded that if most of us understood what really takes

place, when we pray, we would pray more, more often, and see more results. Well, I'm trusting

today that this message is going to encourage you in your praying if you understand

a little better exactly what happens every single time you and I come to God

in prayer. The title of this message is the Holy Spirit, a helper in prayer, and this is part of

our series entitled, The Power of the Holy Spirit and the Life of the Believer. And I want you to

turn, if you will, to Romans chapter 8. And in this familiar passage, Paul gives us an explanation of what really takes place

when you and I pray.

Beginning in verse 26, and we'll read the 26th and the 27 verses, he says, and in the same way, the Spirit also helps our weakness, but we do not know how

to pray as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

And he who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is because he intercedes for the

saints according to the will of God. Now, there are three primary truths that I want us to

understand from this passage that I think will be an encouragement to us. And the first one

is this, and that is, we need the Holy Spirit's help in our prayer.

We need the Holy Spirit to be a helper in our prayer.

And one of the primary reasons is because we struggle in prayer.

That is, there are times when you and I pray when we don't know what to ask God for.

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