If you’ve wondered who you should be talking to when you pray — Dr. Stanley offer this biblical response. In Touch Ministries, 2011-13. For more messages from Charles Stanley, including this week’s broadcast, go to www.intouch.org/watch
the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
of each involved in our prayers Jesus
gives us access to the Father and pleads
on our behalf the Holy Spirit lives
within the believer interceding in
prayer with groanings too deep for words
and God the Father is full of compassion
he listens when we cry out to him
provides for our needs and forgives our
sins which leads us to an interesting
question from one of our viewers it’s
something you’ve probably wondered about
to the email reads which member the
Trinity should I direct my prayers to
the father the son of the Holy Spirit
well that’s a prequel last question so
let’s look at it for a moment
God is one the Father the Son the Holy
Spirit I think about in this light God
the Creator Jesus the Savior and Holy
Spirit the enabler all make up the
Godhead which is one in John 10:30 he
said I and the father are one in John 15
23 he says if you hate me you hate the
father in John 14 9 through 11 he says
if you’ve seen me you’ve seen the father
and then remember the prayer that all of
us have been taught so many years ago
listen to what he says pray then our
Father who is in heaven we call that the
Lord’s Prayer Jesus pray to the Father
on the cross you and I can pray to Jesus
there is no reckon in the scripture of
anybody praying to the Holy Spirit so
somebody says well is it wrong to pray
for God to answer prayer speaking to the
Holy Spirit or the one part of the
Trinity or the other no remember this
God the Father God the Son God the Holy
Spirit make up the Trinity while there
are three distinct persons
they’re also ultimately one-one Godhead
and so when we think in terms of our
prayers we can pray Heavenly Father or
we can pray Lord Jesus or I can tell you
how I feel personally about it sometimes
when I’m about to do something for the
Lord and in some area of ministry I will
usually whisper this prayer Holy Spirit
just to not me of fresh in a new for
what you’re calling me to do so does it
make a lot of difference
not really listen the thing that makes a
difference is that you prayed God hears
you he knows what’s going on in your
life the Lord Jesus Christ sitting at
the Father’s right hand making
intercession for us he sent the Holy
Spirit to live inside of us to enable us
I think of him as the enabler so when
you and I pray we can pray father or we
can pray Lord Jesus or we can pray Holy
Spirit he’s going to hear no matter
which one you address well thank you for
joining us today on this broadcast of
InTouch and remember no matter what
trial a challenge you’re facing when you
fight your battles on your knees that is
in prayer you’re going to win every time