When you don't know what to pray, the Holy Spirit prays God's perfect will through you. The speaker points to Acts 4:31, where the early church prayed after threats, the place shook, and they spoke God's word with boldness. Prayer in the Spirit works when human words fail.
That is the deepest secret of your prayer language. You do not have to know what you are saying. Your prayer language is a weapon of mass destruction to the enemy. The Spirit knows. And what the Spirit prays through you is always, always, always, always, always, always the will, the perfect will of God. Have you ever been in a situation where you did not know what to ask for? Have you ever stood by a hospital bed and run out of English? Have you ever sat across from a teenager and not know what to say to God about them? Have you ever opened your mouth in prayer and nothing came out because the situation was too big for your words? You just— it just took your breath away. You just run out of language. You don't know what to say. Ah, but you need to pray in the Spirit. That is a moment the Spirit was given to you for, that very moment. He starts where your words end. Yes. Now here's the hinge point. Gotta hit the gas, so stay with me. Acts chapter 4, verse 31. Now I want to take you to one of the most important verses in the New Testament about the Holy Spirit, and most believers have never had it preached to them like this. The same people who were filled with the Spirit at Pentecost in Acts 2 are about to be filled again in Acts 4. Here is the context. Peter and John have healed a lame man. They have been arrested for it. been brought before the Jewish council, threatened and told never to preach in Jesus' name again. They came back to the church. They tell the believers what happened, and the whole church starts to pray. Acts 4:31, and when they had prayed, the place was shaken, ah, where they were assembled together, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with Boldness. I want you to see what just happened.
