How To Embrace The Spirit That Helps Us - Bishop T.D. Jakes

he's now showing you the advantage that we who had the first fruits of the spirit had is not that we don't groan it's that we've grown inwardly while they've grown outwardly we've grown inwardly but he goes on to tell us in the same way the spirit helps us in our weakness to hear the spirit helps us in our uncertainty the spirit helps us in our ambiguity the spirit helps us in our crisis the spirit helps us in our pain the spirit helps us in our trauma the spirit helps us in our depression the spirit helps us in our fear the spirit helps us in our anxiety the spirit helps us in our frustration the spirit helps us in our worry it's not that we don't have it but the spirit helps us is there anybody out there that the spirit helped if you're out there and you're listening at me and the spirit helped you i want you to type right now the spirit helped me the spirit helped me i would have lost my mind but the spirit helped me i would have thrown in the towel but the spirit helped me i would have committed suicide but the spirit helped me it helped me in my weakness oh bless your name i'm about to get happy now in the same way the spirit helps us in our weakness we do not know what we ought to pray for we do not know say that we do not know we do not know what we ought to pray for we do not know we do not know what we ought to pray for we do not know everything is so uncertain that we don't even know what to pray for we don't know whether to pray to keep the house or whether it be better to let the house go we don't know whether to pray to keep the marriage or it'd be better to let the marriage go we do not know i can't tell you how many times i'm talking to people right now who don't even know what to pray for i don't know whether to pray for my daughter to come back home or pray for or not to come back home i don't know whether to pray for my son to come out or he might come out here and get killed i don't know what to pray for we do not know we do not know we do not know we do not know all of this is about information we do not know we do not know it's funny because in verse 22 the bible says clearly we know that the whole creation has been groaning as in pains of travail so in verse 22 we're talking about what we know but now in verse 26 we're talking about what we do not know how do you balance what you know with what you do not know and every last one of us has things that we know simultaneously with things that we do not know we know that the whole creation is growing we do not know what we are to pray for but the spirit itself intercedes for us through wordless growthies the spirit intercedes for us it's not just your prayer partner it's not just your pastor it's not just a church mother the spirit of god itself intercedes for us in our weakness as we deal with what we do not know as we deal with leaning into uncertainty we can lean into uncertainty because we have higher intelligence the spirit itself intercedes for us why does it intercede for us because we do not know we we do not know we do we do not know but he knows we do not know what we ought to pray for but the spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groanings and he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the spirit because the spirit intercedes for god's people in accordance to the will of god so that the perfect prayer comes from within my soul not out of my head in my soul not out of my head when the spirit takes over when the language of the spirit takes over when when the intelligence of the holy spirit takes over the perfect prayer comes from the spirit because he knows what is the will of god for me whether this is to be endured or rebuked whether this is to be uh suffered or whether it's to be stumped on the spirit itself knows and it makes intercession for us with groanings that cannot be uttered are you with me verse 28 and we know wait a minute we know in verse 22. in verse 26 we do not know in verse 28 we know we know we do not know we know we know that the whole earth grows up we do not know what to pray for as we are and in verse 28 and we know that all things god works for the good of those who love him so here we have we know that the world is travailing okay we do not know what to pray for as we are because we're in our weakness but we do know that all things work together for the good of them that love the lord that when the shaking is over there's something coming out of this there is a reason that paul says that the whole creation growneth as travail on a woman that's pain with purpose travail on a woman's pain with purpose that's not just pain because of brokenness that's pain with purpose we know that the whole creation growneth in pain and we ourselves also without ourselves grown waiting for the adoption of our sonship we know we know that we they've grown outwardly we've grown inwardly but everybody's groaning we do not know what to pray for we cannot use our prayer life as manipulation we cannot use it like witchcraft we cannot do it use it like name it and claim it and blabbing and grabbing we something because we don't know now what to ask god to do we do not know so the spirit itself praying in the spirit lifting your hands you should do it right now lift your hands and start just praying in the spirit because when we start praying in the spirit we bypass our intelligence and our opinion and our uncertainty and our ambiguity and the spirit who knows what is the will of god prays for us if the devil thought you were in this by yourself he's crazy because you have inside intelligence you have classified information available to you through the spirit and the spirit is praying for the will of god in your life the spirit is not praying for you to get a car like your sister the spirit is not praying for you to show all of your haters how good you are and how god is blessed no the spirit is not praying from your perspective and from where you are seated or as a result of your culture as a result of your background or even as a result of how you experience god based on your condition whether you're the janitor or the president no the spirit doesn't have to deal with your circumstance it prays according to your destiny and your purpose because he knows what is the will of god we know we do not know but we know that all things work together for the good of them that love the lord who are the call according to his purpose one more knowing and i'm done for those god for knew he also predestined we know that all things work together because god for knew us what does fort know me he knew me before the sufferings of this present time he knew me before i made the mistake i made he knew me before i got in trouble he knew me before i got here he told jeremiah before i formed thee in the belly i knew thee i ordained me to be a prophet unto the nations i did not ordain you to sit in a state of depression and give up and die i foreknew you and here the bible says for those god for knew he also pre-destined pre-destined pre before the fifa prefix before destined in before in god pre does that he fixed the end before because he foreknew you for we know for we know not 28 for we know that all things work together why do we know it because verse 29 because he foreknew us and so we can deal with the uncertainty of the process because we know that he predestined the end from the beginning and those that he predestined he did it without them even knowing it he did it before they ever even got here and eventually they then he called them made them aware and those he called he also justified them made them clean see this is romans 8 where paul is teaching there's therefore now romans 8 1 no condemnation to them that are in christ jesus he had to justify me because i wasn't even good enough for what he called me to so those he called he then turned around and justified and those he justified he also glorified for i consider that our present sufferings are not worthy to be compared with the glory with the glory that shall be revealed in us we started with the hope of the glory and we ended with those he justified he also glorified if you don't see glory yet it ain't over if you haven't got to the glory it's not over if you haven't seen the glory from the suffering it's not over so lean into the uncertainty because you don't have to make this happen it's okay it's okay not to be okay it's okay not to be sure it's okay in your weakness because the spirit itself makes us intercession for us when we're worried when we're tired when we're stressed when we're fatigued when we're uncertain he that is certain is praying for me right now did you know that he that is certain the holy spirit is praying for you right now and you don't have to know about tomorrow he already knows about tomorrow and you don't have to know about the next child he already knows about the next child and you don't have to know about this and the other i know you want to know i want to know too i want to know everything he knows but nothing before it's time he knows how to get me through this uncertainty so i won't back up from it i'm gonna lean into it because he knows somebody i'm talking to right now you've got some decisions to make and you can't seem to make them to save your life and you're going back and forth and back and forth and back and forth get out of god's way and let the holy spirit make the decision because he knows what you have been predestined to do and stop making decisions out of discomfort i'm just uncomfortable i can't put up shut up the sufferings of this present time how about where they to be compared to the glory that shall be revealed in us if i would have given up on my life in times of great suffering i would have never made it to any level of glory that i have gotten to see up to this point if i would have believed in the sufferings of my present moment at different stages in my life i never would have made it to the next glory who knows how close you are to the next glory if you faint right now you're going to miss it so tonight i talk to you about leaning into uncertainty and i know he goes against the greater everything that you are to lean into not being in control and lean into not having a definite plan and lean into having to depend on the invisible power of god but isn't that what being a believer a christian is all about is to lean into the cross believe it for the resurrection lean in lean into it get comfortable with it know that god knows and that's enough and those of us who have the spirit of christ will guide us into all truth god close your eyes right now close your eyes right now close them and just reach out your fingers and say lord guide me i can't see i'm blind i don't know what tomorrow's going to bring but you start reaching out with your fingers and say guide me guide me god my finances got my business got my marriage got my life i don't know i'm through talking like i know i'm through fake it like i know i'm through pretending like i know i'm through trying to manipulate other people's lives like i know i'm an imposter i'm a phony i'm a fake i admit it i'm blind i can't see i don't know but i do know that all things work together for the good of them that love the lord and i do know that he that prays within me knows what i have been predestined to do and i do know that i don't want to live my life doing what i wanted to do or what other people assigned to me to do i want to live and then finally die knowing that i have finished my course and i have kept the faith and i have done what you created me to do

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Length: 16min 28sec (988 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 01 2021