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Session 7: Divine Insight by Praying in the Spirit
Prayer
Session #7
Divine Insight by Praying in the Spirit
The Prophetic Intercessor Praying with God’s Heart
Captured by a
Revelatory Word!
A. A Personal Revelation and a Personal
Response
The Holy Spirit spoke to me in a dream and
said, “If you would pray two hours in the
Spirit in one setting, I will give you a spirit
of revelation!” The Holy Spirit knew exactly
to whom He was speaking, and that it was
the right bait to cast my way!
B. 90 Days of Solitary Confinement!
While living and ministering in the Kansas City area, the
Holy Spirit gave me a dream that I was put in jail for 90
days. The Holy Spirit called it “Solitary Confinement.”
During those 90 days, I set myself aside to pray and sing in
the gift of tongues for 6 to 18 hours a day. During that
period, I experienced a great increase of the revelatory
giftings in my life. This was when the Holy Spirit birthed in
me the message “Fire on the Altar,” which I took around the
world. My first book, The Lost Art of Intercession, was
written as a result.
Insights from Key Scriptures
A. Jude 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 waiting anxiously for the mercy of
our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.”
Praying in the Spirit releases a supernatural
culture where a believer can walk
continuously in the love and mercy of God
and increase in their personal level of faith.
B. Romans 8:26-27 “And in the same way the Spirit also helps our
weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we
should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with
groanings too deep for words; And He who searches the
hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He
intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.”
Praying in the Spirit activates the grace of God
to pray perfect prayers in any situation. These
prayers go beyond our rational understanding
and our heart becomes enlightened by Divine
Insight for our prayer targets.
C. Isaiah 28:11-14 “Indeed he will speak to his people through stammering lips and a
foreign tongue, He who said to them, “Here is rest, give rest to the
weary,” and “Here is repose,” but they would not listen. So the
word of the Lord to them will be, “Order on order, order on order,
Line on line, line on line, a little here, a little there,” That they may
go and stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive.”
The gift of tongues brings rest for the weary, peace and
refreshing and is to be a sign to the unbeliever. (Note:
Part of this Old Testament passage from Isaiah is in
turn quoted by Paul in his New Testament writings in I
Corinthians14:21-23.)
Defining the Gift of Tongues A. From the Life of Kenneth Hagin
“Diverse kinds of tongues is supernatural
utterance by the Holy Spirit in languages never
learned by the speaker, nor understood by the
mind of the speaker, nor necessarily always
understood by the hearer. Speaking with tongues
has nothing whatsoever to do with linguistic
ability; it has nothing to do with the mind or the
intellect of man. It is a vocal miracle.”
B. From the Life of Dick Iverson “The gift of tongues is the God-given
enablement to communicate in a language
one does not know. This is a
“manifestation of the Spirit” and not
human ability. It has absolutely nothing to
do with natural ability, eloquence of
speech or a new sanctified way of talking.
The gift of tongues is a supernatural
manifestation or expression of the Holy
Spirit through a person’s speech organs. It
is a direct manifestation of the
miraculous.”
C. From the Life of John Wimber “Kinds of tongues are Spirit-inspired, spontaneous
utterances in which the conscious mind plays no part.
It is speaking in a language (whether earthly or
angelic) which the speaker has never learned or
understood. This is used privately by a believer and
may be used at will for his own edification. Tongues
are also used in public as an ecstatic utterance
following an anointing from God.”
of Praying in the Spirit A. From Ephesians 6:18 (NASB)
“With all prayer and petition pray at all
times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be
on the alert with all perseverance and
petition for all saints.”
Ephesians 6:18 (AMP)
“Pray at all times (on every occasion, in
every season) in the Spirit, with all manner
of prayer and entreaty. To that end keep
alert and watch with strong purpose and
perseverance, interceding in behalf of all the
saints (God’s consecrated people).”
B. Ways the Spirit Helps Our Prayer Life! Let us examine several ways in which the Spirit
helps us, so we can prevail in prayer.
1. The Spirit fills you, so that He can be Lord of your
praying.
2. The Spirit makes you spiritually healthy. Christ
becomes your very life (Romans 8:2; Colossians 3:4).
Andrew Murray wrote “The connection between the
prayer life and the spirit life is close
and indissolvable.”
3. The Spirit draws you to prayer, ever wooing and
enticing you to come to Him.
4. The Spirit gives special access to the Lord.
(Ephesians 2:18; 3:12). The Holy Spirit is the one
who ushers you into the Father’s presence.
5. The Spirit teaches you to pray, causing you to
breathe in the atmosphere of the Spirit and
breathe out the spirit of prayer. The Spirit is
the parakletos or paraclete, the counselor or
teacher (John 14:26) who helps you in your
petitions. As Charles Finney said: “He will
give you as much of the spirit of prayer as you
have strength of body to bear.”
6. The Spirit burdens you to pray. The Holy
Spirit longs to share His burden, compassion,
and travail of soul with you, to identify with
the brokenness of the world, carrying and
praying God’s heart.
7. The Spirit empowers you to pray.
(Psalms 62:11-2)
8. The Spirit multiplies your faith. The
Holy Spirit strengthens and multiplies
your faith for those areas where you are
praying in accordance with the will of
God. He multiplies faith, by giving you
a new revelation of the greatness of the
power of God, by giving you a vision of
how God longs to act on your behalf,
pressing upon you promises from the
Word of God.
Different Forms of
A. Personal Communion
1. Isaiah 28:11-14 – It releases rest and refreshment.
2. Jude 20 – It builds up faith and love while
granting a revelation of the mercy of God.
3. I Corinthians 14:1-4 – We speak mysteries to God
and yet at the same time, edify the one praying.
4. I Corinthians 14:14-15 – When you pray in the
gift of tongues, your spirit prays!
Praying in the Spirit
B. Intercessory Prayer
1. Revelatory (God-Inspired) Prayer
This can be known as Prophetic
Intercession. It is when there is an urging to
pray, given by the Holy Spirit for situations
or circumstances about which you have very
little knowledge in the natural. You pray for
the prayer requests that are on the heart of
God. He nudges you to pray so that He can
intervene. God will direct you to pray to
bring forth His will on the earth as it is
willed in heaven.
2. Compassionate Intercession
When your heart is stirred by
weeping, brokenness, groans and tears
over that which is before you, crying
out for the intervention of the Lord
into that situation. Often you are
sensing the Lord’s heart in that
situation.
3. Spiritual Breakthrough Prayer
A way is opened for the purposes of God to
come forth. This often occurs with travail –
the power of proclamation is mingled with
the gift of discerning of spirits and /or the
gift of faith. This form of revelatory prayer
is often activated in times of deliverance and
strategic spiritual warfare, addressing
powers of darkness over individuals,
families, and/or entire cities.
C. Additional Expressions
1. Praise and Worship to God
This is a form of intimate devotion to God that
goes beyond our natural speech capacity. The
believer can now enter into unlimited ways of
declaring, “I love You! I thank You!”
2. Revelation Is Released
Kenneth Hagin often stated, ‘Two nickels
equals a dime. So the Gift of Tongues
brought together with the Gift of
Interpretation of Tongues equals the Gift
of Prophecy.” When you mix together
these ingredients it yields revelation to the
listener. (See I Corinthians 14:5, 12)
The Power of A. Divine Insight Results in Crisis
Intervention
Here is a testimony of how
intervention came during the Persian
Gulf War in 1987 after I prayed in
the spirit for several hours. Divine
insight was granted resulting in
inspired prayer.
Inspired Prayer
“I was sprawled out on the floor under the front pew of the sanctuary for those
five hours, somewhat hidden away. I prayed quietly the entire time using the
gift of tongues (see 1 Corinthians 12:10; 14:1-4, 15-16; Jude 20). While
praying in the Spirit, I kept seeing in my mind’s eye a picture of a map of the
Middle East. I would pray and watch, watch and pray, trying to get a clearer
view of this map and an understanding of what to do with what I was seeing.”
“As I lay on the floor, praying in tongues and seeing the map, “knowings”
were coming to me. I had the conviction that I was glimpsing a critical
circumstance. As I kept peering at the map, I saw something that looked
like a tiny island nation. I could see letters spelling out B-a-h-r-a-i and
then a final letter. I sensed in the Holy Spirit that there was a U.S. military
presence in this tiny nation, which was unknown to me in those pre–
Gulf War days. I also knew that Iran, under the influence of the prince of
Persia (mentioned in Daniel 10:13), was about to release an unprovoked
attack against the United States on this island that could catapult the
world into World War III before God’s appointed time.”
The revelation ended up being
100% accurate and resulted in
anointed targeted prayer, which
backed off the powers of
darkness and deescalated the
pending conflict.
B. Let the Hand of God Come Upon
You!
The Hebrew word for “hand” is
“massa.” This is a reference to the
“hand of the Lord” or the “burden
of the Lord.” When the Lord’s hand
comes upon us, it imparts
something to us so that when His
hand lifts, His burden remains.
Heavenly Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we ask
for an increase of Divine Insight by Praying in the Spirit. Let
Your hand come upon us and the burden of the Lord be
deposited within us. We ask for greater clarity, revelation and
discernment to pray fervent effective prayers. Thank you, Lord.
Amen and Amen!
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