The Holy Spirit Prays for Us
Scripture: Luke 24:44-49
So somewhere, somehow, in God’s great and marvellous plan for His creation, your
name came up. And God, in His eternal wisdom and counsel, laid out a perfect plan
for your personal life. Then the Holy Spirit did a wonderful thing. He listened intently
to every detail of your life as the Father planned your birth, your ministry, your
prosperity, and every aspect of your redemption and personal life. In fact, the Holy
Spirit is the One who has been put in charge of overseeing God’s plan for your
personal life. No one can represent that plan better than He can. He was there. He
heard God the Father plan every minute detail. And that’s not all. This third Person of
the Godhead stands face to face and absolutely coequal in every way with the other
two members of the Godhead, the great Jehovah and the mighty Logos (Jesus). But
upon your regeneration as a child of God, the Holy Spirit actually consented to take up
residence within your spirit and to offer His services to you! And one of the main
reasons He came was to pray for you. Why did God send the Holy Spirit to live inside
of you? So He could change you into the image of His Son. And in order to
accomplish that goal, the Holy Spirit brought His own prayer language with Him so
He could pray for all that concerns you. Praying in the Spirit definitely connects us with
the power of God that is needed in any given situation. Jesus made that clear to the Twelve in
some of His last words spoken to them in Luke 24:44-49. This passage says, “Then He said
to them, ‘These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things
must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms
concerning Me.’ And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the
Scriptures. Then He said to them, ‘Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ
to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins
should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And you are
witnesses of these things. Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the
city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.’” Jesus was very direct with
His leaders. They had to stay in Jerusalem until they were endued with “power”/doo- nam-is.
The nine gifts of the Holy Spirit include the wisdom gifts, the knowledge gifts and the power
gifts. Doo-nam-is is generally considered to be among the power gifts. Jesus knew exactly
what they needed, and He knew what they needed to receive it so they could be fully
equipped for their ministry. The Greek word used in Luke 24:49 translated “endued” is en-
doo-o. It is literally, ‘The sense of water sinking into a garment until it is saturated.’ It is also
used for ‘Being completely clothed with.’ Jesus instructed the Twelve to stay in Jerusalem
until they were completely clothed with the power of the Holy Spirit. That was the command,
and they completely understood it and acted on it.
PRAYER: for the eternal wisdom to so be saturated and soaked in the heavenly
presence of God.