TD Jakes - Prayer Partners - Part 4 (10/29/2023)
Drawing from the Syrophoenician woman's simple cry of "Help!" and Paul's teaching on praying in the Spirit, believers are urged to stop relying on their own understanding or bossing God and vulnerably cry "Help!", allowing the Holy Spirit to intercede with groanings beyond words for true breakthrough and stability in body, soul, and spirit.
You remember the Syrophoenician woman who came to Jesus, and had no right to be delivered, and her daughter was grievously vexed with the devil? And Jesus answered her not a word, and then said, "I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." And then she simply hollered, "Help!"
The Spirit helpeth our infirmities. Stop bossing God around. You do not know what God needs to do. You do not know how God needs to raise your child. You do not know what it is going to take to fix the problem. You do not know what it is going to take to fix the marriage.
The Power of a Simple "Help!"
Stop trying to be so smart and just holler, "Help!" Just, "Help!" See, help is not smart, help is not educated, help is not opinionated, help is not darkened by my experience. Help is vulnerably admitting that I cannot do this by myself.
That I recognize that I have been broken, and I have been damaged, and I have been wounded, and in order to get through this travail to birth the better part of me that is hidden behind the broken part of me, I am going to need some help.
Breakthrough Through Crying Help
Every time you scream it, you are going to get a breakthrough. Every time you holler, a yoke is going to break. Every time you holler help, a chain is going to come off. Every time you holler help, a door is going to open.
Every time you holler help, you are going to feel strength coming that never came before. Every time you holler help, you submit yourself up under the banner of the Holy Ghost.
Overcoming Pride in Prayer
Somebody with a big mouth holler, "Help!" I know some of you cannot holler because your pride has got you, your pride and your dignity has got you, and maybe it is your first time at the church, and maybe you do not want nobody to see you acting uncool.
But that is because your feelings are controlling your prayer life. But if you get over yourself and say I know not what to pray for as we ought, and you open your mouth and just stop bossing God, and just holler, "Help!"
Praying with Spirit and Understanding
1 Corinthians 14 through 15: "For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. So what shall I do? Will I choose one and not the other? No, I will pray with my spirit and I will pray with an understanding."
"I will sing with an understanding. And I will sing with the Spirit also." I am not talking about composing a piece, I am talking about God composing a piece. I am talking about something that happens spontaneously and it comes out in another language.
The Sound from Heaven
And the only thing that is stopping it from coming in another language is because your intelligence is controlling the narrative. But God who spoke frog, and God who spoke lice, and God who spoke to the winds and waves.
When the day of Pentecost was fully come, and they were in one place with one accord, a sound from heaven, like a mighty rushing wind, cloven tongues appeared like as a fire, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.
Out of Your Belly
God said I want to hear something that does not come out of your head, I want to hear something that comes out of your belly. Woman, if you believe on Me as the Scriptures have said, out of your belly.
Unintelligible but Intelligent
There is a difference between being unintelligent and unintelligible. The definition of unintelligible is impossible to understand, like dolphin sounds are unintelligible to humans.
But just because it is unintelligible does not mean it is unintelligent. Just because you cannot hear a dog whistle does not mean a dog cannot hear it. Just because you do not understand what you are saying does not mean that God does not understand what you are saying.
The Holy Spirit as Prayer Partner
Instead of getting all these nosy people to be your prayer partner, who just want to get in your business, you need a prayer partner that you can trust. And God gave you one which is the Holy Spirit.
"For we know not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us with groanings that cannot be languaged." It is not unintelligent just because it is unintelligible.
Let the Spirit Pray
There are some things going on in your life now that only God can speak to. If you will shut your mouth and let the Holy Spirit, who knows what is the will of God, speak to you.
The devil is trying to steal your moment with your mood. But the devil is a lie, because God gave me this word to be a curse breaker.
Hollering Help for Generations
I am hollering help. I am hollering for my son. I am hollering for my daughter. I am hollering for my grandchildren. I am hollering for my marriage. I am hollering for my prosperity. I am hollering for my peace.
My spirit prays. I am going to lay in my bed tonight and let the spirit pray. I am going to drive home and let the spirit pray.
The Parakletos Comforter
Jesus said I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you. In the Greek it is "parakletos," another of the same kind will come to you. I am going to comfort you.
You are not in this by yourself. If you are a child of the King and filled with His Spirit, you got somebody living in the house with you.
Body, Soul, and Spirit
Let us make man. I formed the body, I blew in the spirit, and he became a living soul. In my spirit I have God consciousness. In my soul I have self-consciousness. In my body I have world consciousness.
The only thing that attaches these two to the world is this body. It is in your spirit that you have God consciousness.
Wholeness in Every Area
I want you better. I am not trying to get you perfect. I want you better in all three areas of your life. I do not want to just be saved in my spirit, and troubled in my mind, and sick in my body, I want to be whole.
"Brethren, I wish above all things that you prosper and be in good health as your soul does prosper." I want to be completely better.
Praying in the Spirit for Stability
I want you to make a commitment that I am going to start praying in the Spirit. And if you do not fully understand what I mean by praying in the Spirit, praying in the language of the Spirit, cutting my intelligence off and letting my prayer language take over.
Some of us have it, but we forget to use it. We start making decisions out of our head, and out of our feelings, and out of our moods, and that is where we mess up.
Jesus Take the Wheel
You cannot make decisions out your feeling because you cannot trust them. I need stability, and I need it in every area of my life, body, soul, and spirit.
Before I wreck this thing, Jesus take the wheel. Your prayer partner is there to give you stability, because He knows you, He has searched the heart, and He knows what is the will of God concerning you.
Anchor This Truth
These Scriptures I taught you today, hold on to them, read them all week, make them yours. I want you to eat it till you can teach it.
You have not learned it until you can teach it. Stop scrolling Instagram, you cannot put this kind of teaching in stories. I want this truth anchored in you.