What are you going through today?
Are you going through a physical bondage?
Are you going through some challenges with your
teenage boy or girl?
Are you going through some addictions?
What are you going through?
Is there something that is a bondage to you?
You feel like you are under this bondage and
you can never get out of it.
Let’s see what happened in Exodus 2.
“Now it happened in the process of time that”
“the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel”
“groaned because of the bondage,”
“and they cried out; and their cry came up”
“to God because of the bondage. So God heard their groaning,”
“and God remembered His covenant with Abraham,”
“with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon”
“the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.”
Have you ever cried out to the Lord?
“How do I do that, Pastor Prince?”
Come here.
I’ll make you cry.
Crying is one of the easiest things.
The moment you are born, you cry!
Amen?
So God is so good that God says the easiest response,
the very first response of a baby born in
this world is to cry! Alright?
God says: “When you cry, you activate My covenant.”
“You don’t have to pray perfect prayers.”
“Just cry and that’s an activation of My covenant.”
“I’ll remember My covenant and I’ll respect you.”
In fact, the phrase that says: “God acknowledged them.”
Go back to Exodus 2.
The last line in the Old King James:
“God looked on them and God had respect unto them.”
And that’s the cry of dependence without
them even knowing it.
Are you with me, church?
Alright, let’s look at the New Testament and
let’s see what is this cry, okay?
Look at Romans 8:26.
“Likewise, the Spirit, the Holy Spirit also”
“helps in our weaknesses.”
Now this word “weaknesses”— any Greek scholar will
tell you it is the same word used for “disease” and “sickness”.
For example, in Matthew 8:17,
“Jesus Himself took our infirmities”
and in the context there,
He was healing physical sicknesses.
That word there is the same word used here.
“The Holy Spirit helps in our weaknesses.”
But many a times, when this verse is quoted,
it’s usually referring to emotional weakness or
spiritual weakness or mental weakness but
my friends, let’s not limit the Word of God.
The word here in the Greek, most of the time,
70 to 80 per cent of the time in the
New Testament is used for physical sickness.
So I submit to you, the Holy Spirit helps you
when you are under attack physically.
But how do we release that?
“For we do not know what we should pray”
“for as we ought.”
How many agree that we do not know
how to pray as we ought.
We know that Jesus paid for our healing, right?
Watch this.
He paid for our healing here.
But here, we have a new symptom in our body.
So how do you bring what He did, into what
you are experiencing?
We do not know.
Many of us pray as if we know.
The best way to pray is based on this verse:
"We do not know how to pray as we ought,"
Now, watch this.
One of the terms used for the Holy Spirit
is that He is an advocate.
Say: "advocate."
He knows all about God's laws and by-laws.
He knows how the laws of the universe works.
He knows how the laws of health are violated.
He knows what brings health, healing, He knows
all about this.
He is the Holy Spirit!
And He knows what you lack.
So when you engage Him, He takes all that He knows
about what Jesus did, and He knows more
about what Jesus did than you know,
that even Pastor Prince can’t fully express.
And He will do it and bring it into your place
where you need it.
Are you listening church?
That is why the Holy Spirit helps us.
And the word "help" is not like—
let the Holy Spirit pray.
The word "help" is “together with.”
We help together with.
In other words, I open my mouth,
He prays through me.
And we come to the next line:
"But the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us”
“with groanings which cannot be uttered."
The word "groanings" here is "stenagmos" (see blue letter bible)
“Stegnamos” (see blue letter bible) which means “cannot be uttered.”
"Cannot be uttered" is very interesting.
In Thayer's definition of "cannot be uttered",
we think of it in the English as
"you are not able to say it.”
But actually the word "cannot be uttered" means
it is not a known language.
And Thayer says, it is used in Classical Greek
as "love secrets."
You are speaking love secrets.
You and your wife, you have a certain term right?
Especially in front of other people.
You can say something and she understands you.
She can say something and you understand her.
Am I right?
God, bless their marriages.
Lord, I pray in Jesus' name.
Bring them into intimacy, Lord.
I pray in Jesus' name.
You can look at your wife across the room, amen?
One twitch of the eyebrow, one twitch of the nose,
one look in the eyes and she understands
exactly what you mean.
No one else understands.
Now, that word there means "love secrets."
So it does not mean you cannot even say it.
But the word "groanings" is very interesting.
The word "groanings" here.
How does the Holy Spirit help us?
With groanings that is not uttered in a known language.
For example, if English is your known language,
there is a groaning, a love secret that
the Holy Spirit helps you but you have to
give vent to it, alright, that God calls it, the
same as the groanings of the children of Israel
in Egypt.
"Pastor Prince, how do you know it is the same groaning?"
I am glad you asked.
Now, the word here is “stegnamos” (see blue letter bible)
That is why I gave you the Greek word.
“Stegnamos”, right? (see blue letter bible)
If we find that the “groanings” among the children of Israel
is also “stegnamos” (see blue letter bible), we got a winning combination.
Am I right?
But the Old Testament is in Hebrew, where
this story happened.
The New Testament is in Greek.
So how do we know it is “stegnamos”? (see blue letter bible)
This word “stegnamos” (see blue letter bible) appears only one other time.
Only one other time in the New Testament,
and do you know where is it?
When the Deacon Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit
was sharing the story of the children of Israel
and how they were in Egypt, he used this.
Watch this in Acts 7.
Stephen is sharing, and he said:
"God said this, 'I have surely seen the oppression’"
"‘of My people who are in Egypt."
"'I have heard their groaning,'”
"stegnamos" (see blue letter bible)
“'and I have come down to deliver them.'”
In other words, speaking in tongues,
my friend, when you pray in the Spirit,
it is activating the covenant.
That is equivalent to that groaning in the Old Testament.
That is why it came on the Day of Pentecost.
(praying in tongues)
I am telling you, when you
pray in tongues, you are activating the covenant.
Amen.
Glory be to God!
Hallelujah!
Amen.
I do not know how to pray.
So this is what I do.
I see Jesus provided it, I see the pain is here,
so I say, "Lord Jesus, I have this symptom”
“in my body, but Lord Jesus I trust Your”
“Holy Spirit, Lord. Let Him pray regarding this symptom.”
(praying in tongues)
I am telling you church,
sometimes it is within a day.
Sometimes it can be a few days.
Keep on praying about it, alright?
Every day, you can say:
"God, I trust Your Holy Spirit to make perfect”
“intercession about this pain.”
(praying in tongues)
Or about your son.
(praying in tongues)
About your finances.
(praying in tongues)
I am telling you, even if—it will happen—
but even if it doesn't happen,
nothing happens, knowing that Someone great,
Someone who is all-knowing is praying for you,
is so therapeutic, you will be stress-free.
You will be worry-free.
You see, don't run to me to pray for you.
You know, the thing is this, don't run to Pastor Henry
or Pastor Lawrence to ask them to pray.
I mean, they are wonderful people but there is Someone
who is perfect in His knowledge.
Amen!
Inexhaustible in His wisdom.
Amen!
And He loves you completely.
He is the Holy Spirit that Jesus sent.
And He prays perfect prayers.
So, just letting Him loose on the inside of you.
(praying in tongues)
Your part is just to let loose.
(praying in tongues)
I am telling you,
just knowing, something is happening.
That pain may still be there, but you know what?
Something is being done to it.
Amen?
I am telling you church, I can't begin to tell you
how many good things have happened in my life,
in this church as a result of this prayer gift.
I cannot imagine living without this gift.
God gave me one gift all these years that has
so many benefits that I can't begin to tell you.
I have a series of the benefits of speaking in tongues.
Many Christians don't understand the benefits
of speaking in tongues.
Why do you think the devil is fighting this gift so much?
Of all the gifts of the Holy Spirit, entire denominations are
split up over this one gift.
Tell me if the devil is not behind it, that he is
so deftly afraid of this gift because it activates God's covenant.
It rids God's people of their bondage.
It sets God's people free.
No wonder the devil is fighting it tooth and nail.
Have you been praying in the Spirit lately?
Or have you been handling your problems with
your own strength.
Your mouth sealed tight.
Have you been doing that?
Time to activate it. Amen?
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