weakness: “but the Spirit himself intercedes for us.”11 It is no wonder that when Paul called Christians to prayer, he told them not to muster up their own prayers, but to “pray in the Spirit.”12 The Holy Spirit is both a flaming Spirit and a praying Spirit. This means that if we have a problem with the relevance and authenticity of our prayer lives, the real problem is with our relationship with God the Holy Spirit. This pattern of Spirit-generated fire and Spirit-generated prayer is much more than
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