Have you ever prayed like this?

[Missian_Alyssa]

In Romans 8 it says both the Holy Spirit and Jesus pray for us.

Holy Spirit, I don’t know how to pray for a person I care about. Please, pray for them.

Jesus, please pray along with the Holy Spirit on this.

Lord, I agree in prayer with both the Holy Spirit and Jesus. Give me the right attitudes that go along with these prayers.

Amen

 

[wild_thing]

Praying for your intention…

Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

 

[Cricket2]

Yes, and often.

One prayer I had like this was related to the Church’s position on birth control. Though I was single and still am, I could not initially accept her teachings about this. So as a new Convert to the Faith I asked God and the Holy Spirit to show me why the teaching was correct and accepted it on “blind faith.” A year or so later I came to understand the teaching in my heart and have accepted it ever since.

Several years ago the doctor found a lump in my breast that was huge. She was certain that it was cancer. That evening I simply told God I didn’t have any strength left for a fight against cancer as I had been ill for years with other conditions. I told God if it was cancer He would have to cure it as I simply had no strength or desire to fight another illness.
The next day, when I went for the mammogram the lump had gone from hard and solid to soft and fluid. It was a cyst. To this day I think if I had not prayed with such trust it would have been cancer…I was just too sick to fight another illness and God apparently wanted me to stick around for a while.

 

[RJB]

Missian Alyssa, I bless you with the special blessing of our Blessed Mother. May the power of the Holy Spirit come upon you.

Pray for her, O Blessed Mother of God, that she may become worthy of the promises of Christ.

 

[ready]

I just said a prayer for your intention. God bless you.

 

[mommy_k]

In Romans 8 it says both the Holy Spirit and Jesus pray for us.

Holy Spirit, I don’t know how to pray for a person I care about. Please, pray for them.

Jesus, please pray along with the Holy Spirit on this.

Lord, I agree in prayer with both the Holy Spirit and Jesus. Give me the right attitudes that go along with these prayers.

Amen

I think one prays like this when they make the sign of the cross, as we are praying to the Holy Trinity. I never asked the Holy Spirit and Jesus to pray for my intentions, as they are part of God to whom I pray. To me that would be like God praying to Himself perhaps.

I am interested in the responses, as this is just my thinking.

God Bless you-I said a Hail Mary for you.

 

[bwhite06517]

In Romans 8 it says both the Holy Spirit and Jesus pray for us.

Holy Spirit, I don’t know how to pray for a person I care about. Please, pray for them.

Jesus, please pray along with the Holy Spirit on this.

Lord, I agree in prayer with both the Holy Spirit and Jesus. Give me the right attitudes that go along with these prayers.

Amen

From Romans 8:26-27:

26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

And

Philippines 4:19 And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.

Heavenly Father, like Missian Alyssa, we don’t know exactly how to pray for this person whom she cares about; therefore through the intercession of the Holy Spirit meet the needs of this special person, search our hearts and search the heart of this person and meet their needs; and also that Philippines 4:19 also be met that the needs of this special person be satisfied

Bruce

 

[the_phoenix]

Praying to God the Father
in agreement with you in the Name of Jesus …
and that the Holy Spirit intercede for you …
Amen

 

[pollylodges]

Saint Michael, the archangel, defend us in battle, be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil, may God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do you, O’ Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God thrust into Hell Satan and all the other evil spirits who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.

Amen.

†

Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Amen.

†

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

†

 

[tawny]

In Romans 8 it says both the Holy Spirit and Jesus pray for us.

Holy Spirit, I don’t know how to pray for a person I care about. Please, pray for them.

Jesus, please pray along with the Holy Spirit on this.

Lord, I agree in prayer with both the Holy Spirit and Jesus. Give me the right attitudes that go along with these prayers.

Amen

Praying to the Holy Spirit to give you guidance & direction in prayer.

 

[Missian_Alyssa]

stumbled upon,

In the Orthodox Church all prayer is Trinitarian. We pray in the Holy Spirit, through Jesus the Son of God, and in his name, to God the Father. We call God “our Father” because Jesus has taught us and enabled us to do so. We have the capability of addressing God as Father because we are made sons of God by the Holy Spirit (see Rom 8).

In the Church we also address prayers to Christ and the Holy Spirit, the Divine Persons who are one with God the Father and exist eternally in perfect unity with him, sharing his divine being and will.

oca.org/orthodoxy/the-orthodox-faith/worship/the-daily-cycles-of-prayer/prayer

newadvent.org/utility/search.htm?safe=active&cx=000299817191393086628%3Aifmbhlr-8x0&q=Romans+8%3A26&sa=Search&cof=FORID%3A9

1. To which point I will briefly answer that Spirit is often put for the grace of the Spirit, as the Apostle also said: “For the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings which cannot be uttered;” Romans 8:26 that is, the grace of the Spirit, unless perchance you have been able to hear the groanings of the Holy Spirit. Therefore here too God is worshipped, not in the wickedness of the heart, but in the grace of the Spirit. “For into a malicious soul wisdom does not enter,” Wisdom 1:4 because “no one can call Jesus Lord but in the Holy Spirit.” 1 Corinthians 12:3 And immediately he adds: “Now there are diversities of gifts.” 1 Corinthians 12:4

1. Now this cannot pertain to the fullness, nor to the dividing of the Spirit; for neither does the mind of man grasp His fullness, nor is He divided into any portions of Himself; but He pours into [the soul] the gift of spiritual grace, in which God is worshipped as He is also worshipped in truth, for no one worships Him except he who drinks in the truth of His Godhead with pious affection. And he certainly does not apprehend Christ as it were personally, nor the Holy Spirit personally.

1. Or if you think that this is said as it were personally of Christ and of the Spirit, then God is worshipped in truth in like manner as He is worshipped in Spirit. There is therefore either a like subjection, which God forbid that you should believe, and the Son is not worshipped; or, which is true, there is a like grace of Unity, and the Spirit is worshipped.

1. Let us then here draw our inferences and put an end to the impious questionings of the Arians. For if they say that the Spirit is therefore not to be worshipped because God is worshipped in Spirit, let them then say that the Truth is not to be worshipped, because God is worshipped in truth. For although there be many truths, since it is written: “Truths are minished from the sons of men;” yet they are given by the Divine Truth, which is Christ, Who says: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” John 14:6 If therefore they understand the truth in this passage from custom, let them also understand the grace of the Spirit, and there is no stumbling; or if they receive Christ as the Truth, let them deny that He is to be worshipped.

newadvent.org/fathers/34023.htm

1. I must call upon the Holy Spirit to express His meaning by my mouth and defend the virginity of the Blessed Mary. I must call upon the Lord Jesus to guard the sacred lodging of the womb in which He abode for ten months from all suspicion of sexual intercourse. And I must also entreat God the Father to show that the mother of His Son, who was a mother before she was a bride, continued a Virgin after her son was born.

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