16/06/2025
THE HOLY SPIRIT ; OUR HELPER IN PRAYER.
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The Holy Spirit intercedes for us.
The Holy Spirit also helps us to pray.
ROMANS 8:26,27
26 Likewise the Spirit also HELPETH our infirmities: for we know not what we should
pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself [Himself] maketh intercession for us with
groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Dr. T. J. McCrossan, who was a noted professor of Greek, included this enlightening insight into the Greek word translated “helpeth” in his book, Bodily Healing and the Atonement (now available from Faith Library
Publications): . . note well the word here translated “helpeth” (sunantilambanetai). This is the present tense, 3rd person singular of the depondent verb sunantilambanomai, and comes from sun, together with; anti, against; and lambano, I take hold of. This word, therefore, means “to take hold against together with.”
Thus, in Romans 8:26 we are told that the Holy Ghost takes hold against our sicknesses together with someone. With whom? Why, with ourselves. . . .
— McCrossan
Dr. McCrossan was dealing with only one side of infirmity (feebleness of body; sickness), but we can clearly see that the Holy Spirit helps by taking hold together with us against our infirmities or all manner of weakness. If I said from the platform, “Some of you men stay after the service and help us move this piano off the platform,” I would mean that I wanted them to take hold, together with someone else, against the weight of the piano.
The Holy Spirit helps. He takes hold together with us against the infirmity. If we do not take hold together with Him against — He has nothing to do. We must take hold together with the Holy Spirit first — then He will help us.
Someone once said to me, “Since I found out the Holy Spirit is doing my praying for me, I don’t d