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infirmities. He is well qualified to do this. Prayer is more than the mere saying of words. Back of the
words there must be a holy desire, and before there can be a holy desire, there needs to be a sense
of the will of God. The Holy Spirit delights to teach us in our prayer lives, and help us to pray. He
knows what the will of God is, and He can overshadow and influence us with holy desires for the
very things that God wants to accomplish. These desires will give expression in inward longings and
groanings which cannot be uttered, or expressed in words, because the mind is too limited to keep
pace with the state of the heart, and the leadings of the Spirit. Every Christian should yield himself
to the Holy Spirit and depend on Him to help him in his prayer life.
2. He helps us in our believing infirmities. Here, also, the Christian needs great help so that his
faith may be strong in the Lord. The Spirit can bring the right promise to his remembrance, and make
the right application so that it will greatly increase his faith. The Spirit can so energize the heart of
the believer that with groanings and unexpressed longings he will be enabled to get such a grip on
God that it will move Him to grant the request.
3. The Spirit helps us in our preaching infirmities. The call to preach is a great calling. The one
who has been called is not qualified in himself to preach the gospel the way it deserves to be
preached. The Spirit will qualify the preacher to efficiently preach the gospel by revealing the
Scriptures to him, by stirring his heart, and by giving the unction essential for preaching.
4. The Holy Spirit helps us in enduring our infirmities. One great secret in winning the
overcomer's crown is endurance. Christ said, "He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be
saved." The writer to the Hebrews admonishes us to run the race with patience, that is, endurance.
It is the object of Satan to discourage people and get them to give up and turn back. Whenever he
does, the Holy Spirit is always present and faithful to encourage the believer to be faithful, to endure,
pointing him to a better and brighter world where there will not be any temptations or sufferings.
5. The Holy Spirit helps us to make right decisions. Many Christians are beset with infirmities
when it comes to making right decisions. There often come times when we are not able to make the
best choice. It is our privilege to depend on the Holy Spirit to help us make the right choice, and it
is His pleasure to help us. The Holy Spirit helps us by leading us. He is a faithful Guide Who has
guided millions of saints through this earth and life. His leadings may be mysterious and not always
fully comprehended; nevertheless, He leads unerringly.
Stephen Grellet, the noted French Quaker, was in this country and felt a concern on his heart as
the leading of the Spirit to preach the gospel to the men in a lumber camp. When he arrived at the
camp he found it deserted because the men had gone farther into the forest; however, he felt that the
Spirit had led him there to preach, so he stood up in an empty dining hall and delivered his sermon.
It seemed to him that his sermon was heard only by the walls of the building and the trees in the
forest. Several years after this a stranger met him who said, "You are the man I have been looking
for all these years, and now I have found you at last."
Stephen Grellet said, "There must be some mistake. I have never seen you before."
"No," said the man, "but did you not preach in a lumber camp in the American forest?"