Being Led By The Spirit in Prayer

Eph 6:18

18 Pray at all times (on every occasion, in every season) in the Spirit, with all [manner of] prayer and entreaty. To that end keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceding in behalf of all the saints (God's consecrated people).
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Rom 8:26

26 So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance.
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1 Cor 14:13-15

13 Therefore, the person who speaks in an [unknown] tongue should pray [for the power] to interpret and explain what he says.
14 For if I pray in an [unknown] tongue, my spirit [by the Holy Spirit within me] prays, but my mind is unproductive [it bears no fruit and helps nobody].
15 Then what am I to do? I will pray with my spirit [by the Holy Spirit that is within me], but I will also pray [intelligently] with my mind and understanding; I will sing with my spirit [by the Holy Spirit that is within me], but I will sing [intelligently] with my mind and understanding also.
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My Comments:

One of the major keys to Spirit-led prayer is just simply this: to be led by the Spirit! In writing to the Church at Ephesus (Eph 6:18), Paul exhorts them to pray at all times with 'all prayer and supplication' in the Spirit (NKJV).

The root word for 'all' is the word 'pas' which means the following: '-all manner of, as many as, every one, every way'. In essence, he was encouraging them to pray with every single type of prayer! We know that we have the prayer of faith, intercession, binding and loosing, and many other types, but the main question we should be asking is this, How do we know what to pray and at what time?

When you are led by the Spirit in prayer, you will know that what you pray is that which is needed for that particular time. As a minister once put it, "The best kind of prayer is the one that is needed at that moment".

When we're not led by the Spirit in prayer, this is what we'd probably be doing. We'd be rebuking the Devil when instead we should be praising God; or we'd be praying in tongues when we should be talking to that mountain that we're facing. It'll be the wrong kind of prayer at the wrong time!

I'm not against praying in tongues, but I've noticed that there are times when I was praying in tongues about a particular situation, and something kept poking me on the inside telling me to go another way, to command that situation to line itself up with what God's Word says in English.

Not every kind of prayer involves you praying in other tongues, although it does help you keep your spirit sensitive to what God says, and the direction you should go. I've noticed that I've prayed in tongues, then subsequently went on to praying out the interpretation of that tongue, which came right out of my spirit; then I went back into tongues, then English; and so forth. I saw another situation turn out just the way I prayed it out in English.

When we are led by the Spirit, we will know that we pray is what is needed at that time. Being led by the Spirit will always lead to the right prayer, which at the right time will almost always produce the right results!