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We
realize that we are energized by the Holy
Spirit for prayer; we know what it is to
pray in the Spirit; but we do not so often
realize that the Holy Spirit Himself prays
in us prayers which we cannot utter. When we
are born again of God and are indwelt by the
Spirit of God, He expresses for us the
unutterable.
"He,"
the Spirit in you, "maketh intercession
for the saints according to the will of
God," and God searches your heart not
to know what your conscious prayers are, but
to find out what is the prayer of the Holy
Spirit.
The
Spirit of God needs the nature of the
believer as a shrine in which to offer His
intercession. "Your body is the temple
of the Holy Ghost." When Jesus Christ
cleansed the temple, He "would not
suffer that any man should carry any vessel
through the temple." The Spirit of God
will not allow you to use your body for your
own convenience. Jesus ruthlessly cast out
all them that sold and bought in the temple,
and said - "My house shall be called
the house of prayer; but ye have made it a
den of thieves."
Have
we recognized that our body is the temple of
the Holy Ghost? If so, we must be careful to
keep it undefiled for Him. We have to
remember that our conscious life, though it
is only a tiny bit of our personality, is to
be regarded by us as a shrine of the Holy
Ghost. He will look after the unconscious
part that we know nothing of; but we must
see that we guard the conscious part for
which we are responsible.
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