the power will come by faith to overcome the world; by faith to bless others; by faith to live a life to the glory of God.  Go thy way, thy soul liveth; for it is Jesus Christ who liveth within you.  Go thy way; be not trembling and fearful, but rest in the word and the power of the Son of God.  “Lo, I am with you alway.”  Go thy way, with the heart open to welcome Him, and the heart believing He has come in.  Surely we have not prayed in vain.  Christ has listened to the yearnings of our hearts and has entered in.  Let us go our way quietly, restfully, full of praise, and joy, and trust; ever hearing the words of our Master, “Go thy way, thy soul liveth;” and ever saying, “I have trusted Christ to reveal His abundant life in my soul; by His grace I will wait upon Him to fulfill His promise.”  Amen.

THE SOURCE OF POWER IN PRAYER.

XII.

Romans 8:  26-27.—­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.

Here we have the teaching of God regarding the help the Holy Spirit will give us in prayer.  The first half of this chapter is of much importance in connection with the teaching of God’s word regarding the Spirit.  In Romans vi. we read about being dead to sin and alive to God, and in Romans vii., about being dead to the law and married to Christ, and also about the impotency of the unregenerate man to do God’s will.  This is only a preparation to show us how helpless we are; and then in the eighth chapter comes the blessed work of the Spirit, expressed chiefly in the following words:  “The Spirit hath made us free from the law of sin and death.”  The Spirit makes us free from the power of sin, and teaches and leads us so that we walk after the Spirit.  In our inner disposition we may become spiritually minded, and enabled to mortify the deeds of the body.  The Holy Spirit helps our infirmities.  Prayer is the most necessary thing in the spiritual life.  Yet we do not know how to pray nor what to pray for as we ought.  The Spirit, Paul tells us, prays with groanings unutterable.  And again he tells us that we ourselves often do not know what the Spirit is doing within us, but there is one, God, who searches the hearts.  Words often reveal my thought and my wishes, but not what is deep in my heart, and God comes and searches my heart, and deep down, hidden, what I can not see and what was to me an unutterable longing, God finds.