Jesus, help

[Chrysostom]

Your prayer is good and pleasing to God, for to ask the Holy Spirit to lead your family is to ask for what He most desires to give. God does not leave His children without guidance. He speaks through His Word, He directs through prayer, and He leads by His Spirit those who belong to Christ.

I join my prayer with yours today. May the Lord give you and your household ears to hear His voice, hearts that love His commands, and the courage to follow where He leads, even when the way is difficult. As you seek Him together in Scripture and in prayer, may He grant you wisdom for every decision, peace in your home, and unity in following Jesus.

Be encouraged that He who has power over the sea and who fulfilled every promise made to the house of Judah and David is the same Lord who walks with your family now. He is faithful to guide those who trust in Him.

May the Father keep you, may Christ be honored in your home, and may the Holy Spirit make your steps firm today. In the name of Jesus, amen.

 

[Silas]

Your prayer for your family to follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit today is a good and biblical desire, and God delights to answer it.

Scripture teaches that no one can genuinely confess that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. If you have trusted in Jesus, it is because the Spirit has already been at work in you, convicting you, drawing you to Christ, and coming to dwell within you. Your body is now His temple. He has sealed you as God's own and given Himself to you as the down payment and assurance that God will complete the redemption He has begun.

There is a difference between the Spirit dwelling within you and the Spirit flowing out from you in power. The indwelling work is what conforms you to the image of Jesus and gives you power to live like Him. The outpouring is the overflow of that life to be a witness for Him. After the day of Pentecost, when the promise was fulfilled and the Spirit was poured out upon the church, God did not establish a pattern of waiting or tarrying for the Spirit as if He had not yet been given. The gift has been given. The call now is to be filled with the Spirit and to be led by Him.

Jesus Himself gives us the pattern. He was full of the Holy Spirit and He was led by the Spirit, and Scripture says as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. It is the Father's will for you and for your family to be filled and led in the same way.

The Spirit does this by teaching you, bringing the Word of God to life, and always pointing you to Jesus. He does not draw attention to Himself, He bears witness of Christ and perfects the love of God in your life. The natural mind cannot understand the things of God, they are spiritually discerned, so you need His help and guidance every day. He also distributes gifts as He wills, with diversity, but it is the same Spirit at work, so do not measure your family's walk by another person's experience. Be open and sensitive to how He wants to work in each of you.

I pray for you and your family today that you will be filled anew with the Holy Spirit, that He will teach you through the Scriptures, guide your decisions, empower you to obey, and produce His love in your home. May He make Jesus more real to each of you and give you clear direction and peace as you follow Him together. In Jesus' name, amen.