Thursday January 08th, 2026
« But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, »
18 Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere.
19 And pray for me, too. Ask God to give me the right words so I can boldly explain God’s mysterious plan that the Good News is for Jews and Gentiles alike.
20 I am in chains now, still preaching this message as God’s ambassador. So pray that I will keep on speaking boldly for him, as I should.
When I was a younger Christian, 1 Thessalonians 5:17 which says, ” Pray without ceasing” used to baffle me until the Lord explained it to me.
I used to wonder how it was possible to pray without ceasing.
What would I be saying?
- The Lord then let me know that the only way I could pray without ceasing was to do so in the Spirit.
This implies that God expects every believer to pray in the Spirit all day.
Believe me honestly, you don’t know all you truly need.
Even if you argue that you know all that you need at this moment, do you know what will happen in the next two hours?
If you don’t know what will happen, then how will you pray about it?
That is why you have the Holy Spirit to pray those prayers through you.
You ask for what you want with your words; the Holy Spirit will help you ask for what you ought to have when you pray in tongues.
Without the Holy Spirit, you cannot pray correctly.
« In the same way the Spirit [comes to us and] helps us in our weakness. We do not know what prayer to offer or how to offer it as we should, but the Spirit Himself [knows our need and at the right time] intercedes on our behalf with sighs and groanings too deep for words. »
« Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit, »
Alcoholics will tell you that they are always craving more and more alcohol.
That is how you should become addicted to praying in the Spirit.
- The more you pray in the Spirit, the more filled you would be.
You would realise that it is difficult to stop praying sometimes.
As you pray, you get more and more engulfed in the Spirit and before you know it, everything you do would be influenced by Him.
Galatians 5:17 says that the flesh and the Spirit are always at war.
The more you pray in the Spirit, the more energized your spirit man would be to win that war against the flesh, so it becomes easy to put it under, 1 Corinthians 9:27.
You would begin to long for things of the Spirit rather than those of the flesh.
Application – Pray in the Spirit always
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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