Monday | 05 January 2026
When we recognise that we do not know how to pray as we should, the Holy Spirit helps our weakness by making intercession for us with groanings that are too deep for comprehension. Rom 8:26. As we pray in the Holy Spirit, we join the fellowship of the prayer meeting of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In this fellowship, we are ‘edified’, which means we are confirmed, built‑up and restored. 1Co 14:4. In other words, we are refreshed and equipped to be led by the Spirit in the works of obedience that belong to our sanctification as sons of God in Christ. For this reason, Jude encouraged us to pray in the Holy Spirit, explaining that through prayer in the Spirit, we are able to build ourselves up in our most holy faith and keep ourselves in the love, or fellowship, of God. Jud 1:20‑21.
Significantly, once established in this fellowship, we have a participation in the ministry of the gospel, through which others can receive the promise of the Spirit, and can enter the rest that belongs to their predestination as a son of God. Eph 1:3‑6. By the Holy Spirit, in whom we have been immersed, the seven Spirits of God flow out of our hearts as ‘rivers of living water’. Joh 7:38. This is the water of the word that brings healing and refreshing to those who receive it. Eze 47:7‑12.
Prophesying of our participation in the ministry of rest and refreshing by the Spirit, Isaiah declared, ‘ “Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just drawn from the breasts? For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.” For with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people, to whom He said, “This is the rest with which You may cause the weary to rest,” and, “This is the refreshing”.’ Isa 28:9‑12.
Further Study:
Isaiah 28
References:
Rom 8:26
Likewise, the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
1Co 14:4
He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.
Jud 1:20-21
But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Eph 1:3-6
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
Joh 7:38
He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.
Eze 47:7-12
When I returned, there, along the bank of the river, were very many trees on one side and the other. Then he said to me, ‘This water flows toward the eastern region, goes down into the valley, and enters the sea. When it reaches the sea, its waters are healed. And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go, will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes. It shall be that fishermen will stand by it from En Gedi to En Eglaim; they will be places for spreading their nets. Their fish will be of the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea, exceedingly many. But its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be given over to salt. Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine.’
Isa 28:9-12
Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just drawn from the breasts? For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little. For with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people, to whom He said, ‘This is the rest with which You may cause the weary to rest,’ and, ‘This is the refreshing’; yet they would not hear.