Integrative Reading
God has eternally related in “love.” Love is a permanent and prominent nature between God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit. This is the image-bearing nature He offered mankind (Genesis 1:27, 2:21-24)—to love and be united in “oneness.” Meditatively praying with the Holy Spirit is a gift from God to help complete our new nature in a relational partnership with God Himself.
Praying with God is our connection to God’s heart of love, His empowerment, and His source of abundant life. Jesus announced that He would send the Holy Spirit to be our Guide and Helper. Jude 1:20-21 speaks of this empowerment and life saying, “But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.”
Praying in partnership with the Holy Spirit is critical to discern God’s perfect will. Matthew 21:22 says, “And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.” Naturally, prayer asked in the Name and manner of Christ Jesus is asking according to the Father’s will, not by human self-centeredness. And to acquire that mindset Romans 10:17 instructs us to remember that knowing the Father’s will is, a “faith coming from hearing, and hearing through the words of Christ.”
Hearing Scripture guided by the Spirit builds our faith.
Romans 8:26 teaches us that human prayers alone are weak, so the Spirit is our guide saying, “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.”
The Holy Spirit is our Helper to walk the abundant life of prayer. Therefore, the Holy Spirit is mankind’s gift to enter into a growing integrated relational life similar to Jesus Christ and God the Father. This is the heart of “oneness” that the Father is seeking from us—reflecting the nature of our eternal Trinitarian God.
Prayerful Mediation
Meditate on the Holy Spirit’s desire to help you pray in union with the Father. Meditate on Jude 1:20-21, “But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life” and on Romans 8:26-27, “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.”
Ask the Holy Spirit to fill you with the knowledge of God’s will so you will desire what God desires.
Spend time praying in line with what the Spirit reveals to you. Rest in God’s assuring love for you. Pray for God’s perfect will for you. Matthew 21:22 says, “And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive if you have faith.” In the mindset of Romans 10:17, “faith coming from hearing, and hearing through the words of Christ.”