From our Sunday service on July 21, 2024, Ephesians 1, Titus 3, John 14, 1 Corinthians 2 and 12, Romans 8, and Galatians 5. Watch the full message: The Works of the Spirit on YouTube.
Who Is the Holy Spirit?
Today we’re talking about the Holy Spirit, part of the Trinity. As the special sang, “Praise the Father, praise the Son, praise the Spirit, three in one.” We don’t often talk about the Spirit in churches. We often talk about God the Father, and we talk about God the Son. As we’ve been discussing in our Chosen series on Wednesday, we usually put God in a box and kind of forget about the role of the Spirit. As the song said, “the church of Christ was born, and the Spirit lit the flame.” If the flame of the church is the Spirit of God, then we ought to know something about Him. I’ve always wanted to talk about the Spirit, and I haven’t really done it yet, so let’s do that.
The Holy Spirit is a part of the Trinity. That means the Holy Spirit is just as much God as God the Father and God the Son. Although the roles of the Trinity are different, none of them is more or less important than the other. We know the role of the Father and we know the role of the Son, but the Spirit has a multifaceted role, comprising multiple areas, in the life of the believer. It starts at the very moment of our salvation and continues into our glory and resurrection. Today we’re going to see the Spirit in three different areas: as our sign of regeneration, as our teacher and advocate, and as our enabler.
The Spirit as Our Sign of Regeneration
First, in Ephesians 1, the Spirit is the down payment of our redemption. Verse 11 says:
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Ephesians 1:11–14
Paul is talking about a few things here. Christians are predestined to something, but this isn’t predestination in the sense of Calvinism, where God has set the future a certain way and nobody has a choice whether they’re saved. Predestination simply means that something has been predetermined. So the question is, what is predetermined, and who is it predetermined for? It’s predetermined for those who have obtained an inheritance, which is the inheritance of salvation. And what is predestined? “That we should be to the praise of his glory.” What is predestined about us is not whether or not we’re saved but that everyone who is saved should be used for the glory of God. We have this calling, every single one of us, not just pastors and teachers but every Christian, to bring glory to God.
There is a sign that identifies those who have put their trust in God. Verse 13 says, “in whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise.” What does “sealed” mean? That’s permanent. It’s putting the mark of Jesus on you, with the Holy Spirit of promise. Baptism is an outward showing of an inward change, and that inward change we refer to as the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The immersion in the water pictures the immersion of the believer in the Spirit of God, and of course it also takes the Old Testament imagery of the washing away of our sins. But we’re sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, and we show this through baptism. How often do we think about the Holy Spirit sealing us?
Verse 14 talks about how important this is to us. The Holy Spirit of promise “is the earnest of our inheritance.” “Earnest” means a down payment. If you want to buy a house, you put down a down payment and say, “I’m going to pay the rest later, but I’m going to put down $30,000 on this house, and that’s the promise that the whole house is going to be paid later.”
When we are saved, there are three distinct phases to our salvation: justification, sanctification, and glorification. They don’t all happen at the same time. Justification happens at the moment of salvation, when we put our trust in Christ. We are declared righteous. It’s a judicial term. In a court of law, you would be either declared innocent or declared guilty, and at the moment of salvation, God puts down our sentence: not guilty. The second phase, sanctification, begins at the moment of salvation. Sanctification is the process of conforming ourselves to the image of Christ. Glorification is ultimately when we die, Christ returns and resurrects us in a glorified body, and we see the full promise fulfilled.
God says, “I want you to have faith that the whole promise is going to be fulfilled. I want you to have faith that you will be transformed, that you will be glorified, and that sin will no longer have control over you. As my down payment on this process, the first thing I’m going to give you is the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is going to enable you for the whole rest of this process.” The Holy Spirit is the mark of salvation. He’s the sign that we’re truly saved. If you want to find out if someone is truly saved, you have to look for the Holy Spirit in them. We are justified, which is salvation from sin’s consequences. We are sanctified, which is salvation from sin’s control. We are glorified, which is salvation from sin completely. And if we’re going to have salvation, it all starts with the Holy Spirit. That’s the first aspect: the Holy Spirit as our down payment of redemption.
The Spirit is also the source of our regeneration. Titus 3 says:
But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Titus 3:4–7
Here we see again that picture of baptism and how it aligns with the Holy Spirit. “The washing of regeneration” is that illustration of being immersed. We are washed in regeneration and renewed by the Holy Ghost. He’s not just the down payment but the One who regenerates us. The Bible says that when we are born, we’re born with a sin nature, but God puts to death the old man. That sin nature no longer has control of us. It’s killed, it’s nailed to the cross with Jesus, and the Holy Spirit is placed there to begin the regeneration process.
Verse 6 has the phrase “shed on.” I looked that up in the Greek because I was reading a commentary that said some things about “shed” that didn’t make sense to me, since I was thinking of the shed blood of Jesus. But the word “shed” means to pour out, the idea of dumping water. Remember the illustration in the Bible of your cup running over with the goodness of God. That’s the idea: “shed on us abundantly.” The Holy Spirit isn’t just placed in us. Baptism is by immersion because there is so much of the power of God in us. It’s like pouring buckets of the Holy Spirit on us, surrounding us and drowning us in the Spirit of God. Why? “Being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.” God pours out His Holy Spirit on us to heal our broken nature through His grace so that we can inherit this eternal life.
So our first point is very simple. The Spirit is the sign of our regeneration. He’s the down payment, so if we have Him, we know we’re saved. He’s also the source of our regeneration. If the Spirit is that involved in our regeneration, and if He is the flame that burns in the church and keeps us going, maybe we should think about the Holy Spirit a little bit more.
The Spirit as Our Teacher and Advocate
The Spirit Teaches and Reminds Us
Next we see the Spirit as our teacher and advocate. First, the Spirit teaches and reminds us of what God says to us. This is Jesus speaking, in John 14:26:
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 14:26
Jesus is talking to His disciples right before His crucifixion. They’re quite terrified. The Romans are coming for Jesus, and by extension they assume the Romans are coming for the disciples as well. They’ve been running from the Pharisees, who are trying to catch Jesus, for a couple of weeks now. So they’re in this moment of fear and uncertainty, and Jesus gives them words of encouragement: the Comforter is coming. You could also translate that as “Advocate.” Both are accurate. The Spirit is our Comforter in that He gives us peace, and He’s our Advocate in that He goes to the Father on our behalf.
Jesus says, “When I’m gone, I’m not going to be here to teach you anymore.” If you remember anything about what Jesus told the disciples, He hadn’t taught them everything yet. There was still so much for them to learn. But He’s saying, “I’m not going to be here physically on the earth to teach you, but don’t worry. The Spirit of God is coming, and He will teach you all things.” While the Bible may not talk about every issue in our lives, the Holy Spirit can. The Holy Spirit lives in each and every Christian as an aid to help us take this book, the Bible, and extend it to all parts of our lives. He’ll teach you everything, and He’ll remind you of what I’ve told you.
One thing about reminding is that it requires something already heard. Can you remember something you haven’t heard yet? No. So the Holy Spirit is supposed to remind us of the things we study and learn on our own. Just because the Holy Spirit can tell us what to do, does that mean we shouldn’t read our Bibles? No. The more we read our Bibles, the easier it will be to recognize when the Holy Spirit is talking with us and telling us what Jesus is telling us to do.
So Jesus Himself tells us the Holy Spirit is our Comforter and our Advocate. He has this role of communicating between us and the Godhead. The Bible even tells us that when we pray, we pray in the power of the Holy Spirit. We pray to God the Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, through the power of the Spirit. As this communication between God and man, the Spirit is our teacher and the One who reminds us of the things we ought to do.
The Spirit Communicates the Mind of God
Our next passage is 1 Corinthians 2:10–12. The Spirit is the One who communicates the mind of God. In a similar idea, He’s our Advocate, our Comforter, and our communicator, but Paul has a little more to explain here.
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
1 Corinthians 2:10–12
Paul explains how the Holy Spirit works and how this relationship goes, and he uses an illustration in verse 11: “For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?” In other words, when I’m walking down the street and see someone, how can I know what that man is thinking? I can’t. I can’t see inside his brain and see the thoughts in his head. Who can? Only the man who’s thinking them. Paul says the Holy Spirit works the same way. Who can see the mind of God and what God wants? Only God. How do we solve that problem? God says, “I’ll send my Spirit to live inside you, and because the Spirit is inside you, He can tell you what I’m thinking and what I want at any given moment.”
This is why, as Christians, we sometimes feel a call to go out of our way and do something. God puts it on our heart: “I want you to talk to that person,” or “I want you to encourage that person.” Those thoughts aren’t coming naturally to us. They’re supernatural. It’s God communicating to us through His Spirit. No one can tell you what God is thinking except God Himself, so the Spirit is necessary for our communication with God.
Verse 12 also says “that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” Not only can we be told what God is thinking, but we can also know that God has gifted us with salvation through the Holy Spirit. That’s talking about salvation. If we have the Spirit inside convicting us and leading us, we don’t have to doubt whether we’re saved. If God is living in us, we’re saved. If God is talking to us, we’re saved. If we have a relationship with God through the Spirit, we’re saved.
The Spirit Steps In When We Are Unable
Romans 8:26–27 continues this idea of the Spirit as our teacher and advocate by teaching us that the Spirit steps up when we are unable.
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. 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.
Romans 8:26–27
You see a lot of the same wording here as in the other passages. “He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is in the mind of the Spirit.” He who searches the hearts is God, and God knows what is in the mind of the Spirit. We’re getting that same kind of phrasing from Paul: God knows His own mind, and God’s mind lives inside us through the Spirit. But here we see a real comfort. Remember Jesus called Him the Comforter. This is where we really see Him as our Comforter and Advocate.
It says the Spirit “helpeth our infirmities,” the idea of being sickly or weak. I think we can all raise our hands and admit that we are weak from time to time. If I’m honest, I’m weak a lot of the time, whether in the day-to-day business of my career or spiritually. There are a lot of times when we’re just having difficulty and facing hardship, and here is a comfort. When we’re at those low points and don’t know what to do, the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us. That’s praying.
How many of us have gotten to a low point where we fell on the ground and wanted to get right with God and wanted His help but had no idea where even to start? You’re so lost in your grief or difficulty that you want to pray but think, “I don’t even know what to ask. I don’t even know what’s right and what’s wrong, whether to go left or go right. Should I pray for this to happen this way or that way? God, I’m so lost.” When you’re in those moments, this verse is a comfort. The Holy Spirit lives inside you, and He can see every single part of your difficulty. Because He is God, and God searches the hearts and knows what is going on in the world at any given moment, God through the Spirit and the Father can pray on your behalf, “with groanings which cannot be uttered.” It doesn’t matter if you can’t pray right now or say what you need to say to God. The Holy Spirit will know what’s in your heart, understand your difficulty, and pray on your behalf.
If you don’t know what the will of God is and don’t know which way to pray, God knows what the will of God is. God says, “I know you can’t communicate right now. I know you don’t know which way to pray. Don’t worry. I see your heart, I see your struggle, and I know what’s best for you. Because you’re coming to me in faith, I’m going to answer that prayer even though you don’t know how to word it right now.” That should be a great encouragement to us in a time of difficulty. We don’t need the answers. We have someone who knows everything we need to pray for at any given moment and can pray on our behalf as our Advocate. The Spirit steps up when our humanity limits us. When we’re at our lowest moments and don’t know what to say, the Spirit will pray to the Father for us what is best, in harmony with the will of God, or in other words, God’s desire for us.
The Spirit as Our Enabler for Ministry
Our last point is the Spirit as our enabler for ministry. Turn to 1 Corinthians 12, beginning in verse 3. The Spirit equips us with gifts for the ministry. Different denominations take spiritual gifts different ways, but in a nutshell, spiritual gifts are talents that God enables us to have so that we can do ministry more effectively. I think a lot of people struggle with finding their spiritual gift. It’s not always so instantaneous, when you’re saved, to know what gift God gave you to use for Him. But everybody has talents, and there’s always one to find.
Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
1 Corinthians 12:3–6
Before we move on, let’s talk about this. Verse 4 says there are diversities of gifts but the same Spirit. There are a lot of different talents you can have in this world and a lot of different ways to serve the Lord. What’s important is not which talent you use to serve the Lord but that you are serving the Lord. It doesn’t matter which gift you have. It’s still the same Spirit enabling you to use it.
There are “differences of administrations.” That’s talking about leadership roles in church. We’re talking about pastoral transition. He’s senior pastor and I am assistant pastor and youth pastor. It doesn’t matter what the name of the role is, because it’s the same Lord we serve. We both have the same boss. So don’t get stuck up on titles. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a leader in the church or a person sitting in the congregation. We all serve the same Lord, and we’re on the same team.
There are also “diversities of operations.” There are a lot of different ways we can formalize this process. We’re not all the same denomination. There’s Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and nondenominational. There are Christian nonprofits that don’t have a denomination and don’t even have church services. Do they serve the Lord? Yes. It’s still ministry. It doesn’t matter what the operation is. The same God works in all of them. Maybe your spiritual gift isn’t something you use in the local church. It could be something you use at a nonprofit, but you’re still able to spread the word of God and do ministry with it.
Let’s continue in verse 7.
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
1 Corinthians 12:7–11
“The manifestation of the Spirit” is given to every man, and that’s not “man” in the sense of male. It’s given to every person. Here is a big list of gifts. This is not an exhaustive list of all the spiritual gifts. Remember Paul is writing on parchment, which was very expensive and very limited. He’s not going to write out a letter listing every single spiritual gift, because it would cost him so much money to send that in the Roman Empire. He’s just giving some examples, but they’re very general and apply to a lot of people. Let’s look at them. Maybe you’ll see one of your spiritual gifts in them. This is what the Holy Spirit wants us to use to further the kingdom of God.
Wisdom
The first one, in verse 8, is wisdom. Wisdom is what we call skill for living, knowing how to live your life well. Those who have the gift of wisdom can help others navigate life’s difficult times. It’s usually more in the area of social skills. Say two people are married and having a fight over something, and they go to someone else for advice. That’s the gift of wisdom. When someone has an interpersonal problem, you can say, “Let me tell you how I think you can solve it.” It’s also important to know whether we have the gift of wisdom, because not everybody does, and if we don’t, we probably should not be giving people advice. But for those who do, it can be a great blessing and a major thing in someone’s life. How many of you have had a hardship, didn’t know what to do, went to someone for advice, and remembered that advice for the rest of your life, and God was glorified in that ministry? I think a lot of us have been in that situation. I know I have. I think of a man who got me into biblical Greek, when I wasn’t able to learn it yet. For three years he sat down with me and said, “I have some wisdom for you. You can wait for your teacher to teach you this, or if it’s already in your heart to do it, just start now, and when you get there it’s going to be easier.” That man had so much wisdom about him, and I know he had that gift.
Knowledge
The next one is knowledge. This is in contrast: general intelligence and secular advice. It’s your accountant or businessman who can say, “I want to tell you how to set up your 401(k) so you’re secure financially in the future.” Maybe some of you are really secularly skilled. A mechanic would be an example, someone with intelligence who can give you knowledge and advice on how to do something. God says that’s also a spiritual gift. It may not be skill for relationships, but it’s general skill, and you can use that general knowledge for ministry, to be an encouragement to other people and bless them.
Faith
Verse 9 gives us the gift of faith. We think, “Shouldn’t we all have faith? We’re all Christians. We all believe in God.” But the gift of faith is more than that. It’s someone whose faith is so strong that no matter what difficulty they face, they’re still standing there praising the Lord. This one is pretty self-evident for why it’s a gift you can use to minister to others. How many of us have been encouraged by someone whose faith was unwavering and unshaken no matter how difficult things got? If we have the gift of faith, where we don’t have that doubting, we can be an encouragement to others. When their world is falling apart, we can step in and say, “I’ve been there. I’ve seen that God was there, and He took care of me. He can take care of you.”
Healing
Next is a fun one, in verse 9, the gifts of healing. People will debate this one. I still believe the gift of healing happens. I don’t think it’s common, and I don’t think a lot of people have it, but it is the ability to pray and provide miraculous healing. If you look around, there are cases that happen all the time of doctors not being able to explain how a person’s disease just disappeared when somebody prayed over them. I don’t think any of us should say, “I’m going to have the gift of healing. I’m going to go into the hospital and just pray.” This is not something you make happen. It’s something God allows to happen. Don’t be mistaken by the people on TV going “shh, pow,” trying to do these miraculous healings. The more showy it is, the more you know it’s not real. But the gift of healing is a gift of the Holy Spirit, and it still happens. I know people on the mission field who have seen miraculous healings. I have not been able to do that myself.
Prophecy
The next one, after the working of miracles in verse 10, is the gift of prophecy. Sometimes people go a little crazy with it, but really this is just divine wisdom for foretelling the outcome of a path. There have been a few times in my life when I told people, “If you do this, this is what it’s going to look like,” and they thought I was crazy, but it happened. My wife had someone tell her in Brazil years ago that she was going to prepare for a mission field in one country but that God’s plan was going to change and she’d be in another country that she didn’t want to go to. She didn’t want to come here, but that was told to her years before it happened. So the gift of prophecy is still alive. It’s not going to be obvious who is the prophet and who’s not, but God will give the Holy Spirit’s impression to someone, and they’ll tell you something. Listen to what other people are telling you, because it’s possible the Spirit is communicating through them to warn you about something to come. Often it has to do with a choice you’re going to have to make. Sometimes, if you’re living in a life of sin, someone will be impressed by the Spirit of God to warn you, without even knowing the context, about the consequences of your actions.
Discerning of Spirits
Next is the gift of discernment, the discerning of spirits. This one is not as clear, but it’s being able to tell truth from lies when it comes to spiritual things. It’s being able to tell the false preacher from the true preacher, the person teaching the truth from the person teaching lies. If you have this gift of discernment, you can help people. You might say, “I don’t know if you should be watching that YouTube channel on the Bible. I don’t know if some of the things they’re saying are in Scripture.” If you can tell what the Bible says is true and discern truth from falsehood, you can be a great help to the Christian in teaching them how to follow God effectively.
Tongues and Interpretation
In verse 10 we have the gift of tongues. “Tongues” is literally the Greek word for languages. They just called them tongues. The gift of tongues is the ability to learn and speak languages. Yes, in the New Testament sometimes it was miraculously speaking a language. I did meet one reliable person at Pensacola Christian College who said that when they were on the mission field, someone came to them at a medical clinic, and they spoke with someone who spoke a language they didn’t know. He doesn’t remember what country the group was from, but they came in and started talking with him about getting help, and he gave them the gospel and they got saved. He walked away and realized they had been speaking another language and he couldn’t talk to them anymore. He had no idea how in the world he communicated with them and gave them the gospel. He said, “I didn’t think the gift of tongues was still there, but I cannot explain that any other way.” So it has to still be active in some cases, but generally Paul uses it this way in Scripture when he’s talking about church services: the ability to learn and speak languages. This is a skill I don’t have. My wife has the gift of languages. She’s able to learn a language and communicate with people in a way I will never be able to do. I could barely get Portuguese, and when it comes to Hebrew and Greek, I can’t speak them. I can only translate them, which is our next one.
The interpretation of tongues is the gift of being able to take a language and translate it into your own, which is different from tongues, which is to communicate effectively. The interpretation of tongues was used in the early church for when someone was saved and didn’t speak the language of the congregation but still wanted to teach. Paul says you cannot speak in tongues without an interpreter, and this was the gift of interpretation. Think of it like on the mission field. With our fellowship we went to Chile and wanted to be an encouragement to that church, but we don’t speak Spanish. So our person would speak in English, and someone with the gift of interpretation would translate into Spanish as they taught. Maybe some of you have that gift and the ability to translate from one language to another. In that case, you can take somebody’s ministry that’s only in one language and expand it to bless people who aren’t a part of that language. You can take what small things someone can do and turn them into a much larger thing for the greater kingdom.
Verse 11 reminds us that all these things come from the same Spirit, that they are all one gift, and that we all have one gift or more.
The Spirit Produces Fruit
We’re running out of time, so I’m going to skip to our last one, Galatians 5:22–25, where the Spirit produces fruit.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Galatians 5:22–25
One thing I see people get wrong all the time in verse 22 is that it says “the fruit of the Spirit,” not “fruits.” It’s singular. The fruit of the Spirit is all of these things, not some of them. The fruit of the Spirit is people who have love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance, not just some. You can’t produce some of the fruit of the Spirit.
So if you look at your life and say, “I don’t know if I unconditionally love people. I don’t know if I have happiness despite life’s circumstances. I don’t know if I’m comforted in life’s hardship. I don’t know if I can endure difficulty. I don’t know if I have integrity. I don’t know if I’m kind. I don’t know if I trust God. I don’t know if I have humility. I don’t know if I have self-control,” then maybe it’s time to get into the Spirit a little bit and try to revive those attributes in our lives. The easiest and most obvious is just to love people, and then of course the others would follow naturally. The Spirit is what produces the fruit in us, so we should have this relationship with the Spirit.
Will You Walk in the Spirit?
In conclusion, I think verse 25 is a good summary of how we respond to the Holy Spirit: “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” If the Spirit is what regenerated us in that first point, at baptism, and if that’s what we live through, then maybe we should also walk through Him.
To review, we have the Spirit in three areas. He is our sign of regeneration, the internal sign of our salvation and the source of our regeneration. He is our teacher and advocate: He teaches us the truth of God, reminds us of the ways of God, and communicates our needs to the mind of God. And lastly, He is our enabler: He gives us gifts for the benefit of all and produces the fruit of righteousness in us.
So the question today is, will you walk in the Spirit? Will you have this relationship with the Spirit? Knowing this can change your prayer life. If you know the Spirit is the one enabling you, then pray for God to fill you with the Spirit and make the Spirit come alive in you. The Spirit is the fire of the church, and we ought to have that Spirit filling us. If we know the Spirit is our teacher and advocate, then when we’re facing difficulty and confusion, we can pray, “God, make this clear.” And in our times of difficulty, we don’t have to worry about what to say or about praying right. We can just pray, “God, have your will in my life.”
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