The Holy Ghost wants to flow through you. Not only to visit you, comfort you or answer your prayers, but to find expression through you: through your life, your family and your environment. This message shows what that looks like, and one way you can open the door.
Rivers of Living Water
Jesus made a promise to the believer in John 7:38, and the Bible tells us He was speaking of the Holy Ghost (John 7:39).
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
John 7:38 (KJV)
The Holy Ghost wants to flow through you, the believer. He wants to find expression through you, in all His different dimensions. He wants you to be His pipe, His conduit, His pipeline, the path through which He flows into your life, your family and your environment, and through which He takes dominion in the world.
God Wants to Find Expression Through You
You have been trusting God. You have been praying about issues. You have been interceding for your family and for your environment. But God wants to find expression through you. One of the ways He does that is by the Holy Ghost flowing through you as rivers.
Let the Holy Ghost find expression through you.
Praying in the Spirit Opens the Flow
One of the ways you allow the Holy Ghost to flow through you is to consciously begin to pray in tongues, to pray in the Spirit, speaking in an unknown tongue.
What is speaking in tongues? Acts 2 is the infilling of the Holy Ghost: the Holy Ghost coming to dwell in you and giving you a prayer language. As we begin to utter those prayer languages, we find that the Holy Ghost begins to flow through us as rivers.
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts 2:4 (KJV)
What the Holy Ghost Wants to Do
He wants to fill your life. He wants to:
- solve issues in your family
- develop you as a believer
- make you strong
- intervene in issues in your life, your family and your community
And how does He do it? One of the ways is by praying in an unknown tongue, praying in the Spirit.
He Helps Us Pray
The Word says that whoever speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not to men but to God (1 Corinthians 14:2). And when we do not know how to pray as we ought, the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us through groanings that cannot be uttered (Romans 8:26).
For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God.
1 Corinthians 14:2 (KJV)
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Romans 8:26 (KJV)
If You Have Not Yet Received
If you have not received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the Bible says ask, and it shall be given to you. But you must ask in faith, and you will receive in faith. Once you receive, begin to open your mouth and pray in the Spirit.
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
Luke 11:13 (KJV)
When Our Own Language Is Too Limited
He wants to help you. There are so many matters you are fighting, and so many things happening in this world, that the English language is too limited to cause a radical change. We have to switch over to tongues. Allow the Holy Ghost to pray through you.
Key Takeaways
- The Holy Ghost wants to flow through the believer like rivers of living water (John 7:38-39).
- God wants to find expression through you, not only answer your prayers.
- Praying in the Spirit is one of the ways you allow Him to flow (Acts 2:4; 1 Corinthians 14:2).
- The Spirit helps us when we do not know how to pray (Romans 8:26).
- If you have not received, ask in faith, then open your mouth and pray in the Spirit (Luke 11:13).
- Some battles are too big for our natural language. Allow the Holy Ghost to pray through you.
Pray This With Me
Father, thank You for the Holy Ghost. I ask in faith for the fullness of Your Spirit. Let rivers of living water flow out of my life into my family, my environment and my community. I open my mouth to pray in the Spirit. Holy Ghost, pray through me. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Keep Going
Allow the Holy Ghost. If this message stirred you, share it with someone who needs His help today, and let us pray with you. Keep growing in prayer with Prayer Until Something Happens: Insist and Persist in Prayer, or join the waitlist for the 30-Day Soaring in Prayer Challenge.
God bless you.
Based on the video teaching “The Holy Ghost Wants to Help You” on the Eagles Ministry YouTube channel. Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (public domain).