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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 9:04 AM

Mark 13:11 (NIV) "Do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit."

I feel that this verse is really very meaningful and it can be applied to real life situation. We just had our prayer conference and wow today I felt the strong presence of God in our midst. For the first time, five of us were praying together! And it was really powerful, if two or three gather together is power, four and more is powerful. Yeah, like what yl has said just now. Let us be led in the Holy Spirit, and not pray by what we want to say. Like for example, don't keep thinking : "oh i must pray for this during pc later, i must remember to pray for that" or bombard those machiam chim words and soon you will realize that you are far too focus on what you feel like praying and making the prayer sound so perfect until you don't welcome the Holy Spirit to lead you to pray. I am not saying that we cannot pray for what we want to pray for, we can. But at the same time we need to let the Holy Spirit fill us and let us have a relationship with the Holy Spirit.

Prayers are to be led by the Holy Spirit for He is the one who prays through us, for us and for others (quoted by Ps Phil Pringle)

Romans 8:26 "In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express."

That was taken from the book that I've been reading. But that is how I feel, like when we pray, there shouldn't be a constraint and we shouldn't fear of the Holy Spirit to lead us. And instead let Him be the one leading you wholeheartedly in the prayer ,let Him be the One who intercedes for us with God. And to your surprise, you will be praying for things that you've never thought you would be praying for, or about other area of concerns which you think wouldn't affect or bother you much. Take me for example, I will always pray for the bigger picture and I will leave the smaller pictures at the back thinking they have nothing to do with how I am feeling. But one day, I was praying for breakthrough with parental objection as usual. Then suddenly I was praying even for the smallest thing like time management. I have never prayed about time when I am praying for breakthrough against my parental objection. Like usually I will just pray for open hearts and for my parents to let me go to church in peace and for them to stop nagging and nagging. I knew time was a concern, but I didn't know the weight-age of time was so impactful. And after that night that I prayed exactly what the Spirit has told me to, there was indeed a breakthrough. My mother said she will allow me to go church given the condition that I reach home before 1130 (which is now extended to 12mn, but we should not take things for granted) the next day. As I told yl about this, she said : "wow, this is what we have been praying for, for months and finally the breakthrough is here. Our God is a good God. We should be thankful for the little things. We want to go serivce but above that, God make a way for fellowship. How cool is that? Amen"

See friends, that is the power of the Holy Spirit. We will not know until we truly experience it! So lets not be afraid of the Holy Spirit and instead invite Him again into our lives if you feel that you already have lost the connection with Him.

Xoxox; Shan [: