Jude 20 reads, “But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.”
During a recent youth service, we had a survey and found out that quite a number of youths pray less than 5 minutes a day.
Although we may have the Holy Spirit, but a lot of times we still find ourselves struggling to overcome our lusts and desires.
Rom 8:26 tells us that the Holy Spirit helps us in our weaknesses by interceding for us in our prayer.
It is through prayers that we allow the Holy Spirit, our Counselor, to guide us and help us submit to God’s will. What good is a counselor if we don’t spend time to seek for His advice? It is just like having a car but you rather leave the car at home and walk to your destination.
The Holy Spirit can help us, only if we have the heart to spend more time in prayers.
Try to improve in your prayer times gradually and give the Holy Spirit a chance to help you.
It’s so true that a lot of us find it hard to motivate ourselves to pray.
But the beauty of prayer is that we don’t just rely on our own strength to pray..
We should also be inviting God himself to lead us and guide us in our prayer from the start (whether we do or do not have the Holy Spirit). After all..the prayer is meant to source of spiritual strength and to ask Him to help us wouldn’t seem all that terrible…
Thank God for your sharing
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