Knowing The Holy Spirit - 5-fold Prayer Devotional III
47th week: Knowing the Holy Spirit! The “Five-fold Prayer” series, Part III
“…And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him.” Judges 16:20 (KJV)
I believe every prayer that comes out of our heart, inspired by the Holy Spirit, is a powerful weapon in God’s hands, for accomplishing His will on this earth, and for driving out the forces of darkness. So, let me share briefly about 5 specific prayer directions the Lord has led me to pray, on a continual basis, because I believe they are indeed foundational for our daily walk with the Lord. I have named this series of five Devotionals: The “Five-fold Prayer” series.
The first prayer area we discussed in the first Devotional of this series was connected with God’s Reality in us. The second one was connected with us to be real in God and His purposes. Now the third one is connected with us knowing the Holy Spirit so intimately, that we be not ever fall into the same situation Samson fell. This Bible scripture is probably one of the most powerful scriptures, showing the agony of God’s heart when something like this happens.
Samson THOUGHT God was a Coca Cola machine, which he could use anytime he wanted to, yet, we see here that the Holy Spirit had departed from him, and he did not even understand when and how that happened. In an age of so much spiritual and ministerial pride, this is so actual and so right to the heart of the problem. We may be so involved in STUFF “for the Lord”, that, if we do not live according to God’s spiritual, moral, and natural principles, we may find ourselves being confident, like Samson, that we will be able to cope with the next situation that arises, BUT…
Let us really pray daily something like: “Lord, please make us sensitive to Your Holy Spirit. We want to know You intimately and we want to know Your ways and activities. We don’t want to ever find ourselves in Samson’s shoes, not knowing when Your sweet presence has left us. Please, take not Your Holy Spirit from us”.
KNOWING THE HOLY SPIRIT
Nikola Dimitrov
Pastor, Bible Teacher, Preacher, Translator, Publisher and Author
