what are you agreeing with?

Do you know that Jesus and Holy Spirit are praying for you?

They’re not passively sitting by as you navigate your way through life and pray to God for wisdom and direction and whatever else it is you’re asking Him for. They’re talking to God about you, pleading for you, petitioning for you. They are with you and for you, maybe more than you even realize.

I grew up in church, so I kind of knew this. But I didn’t really think about it, or what it meant, until a few years ago when I was chatting with a friend about how to pray and believe God for big things.

“If Jesus and Holy Spirit are praying for you,” she said, “don’t you want to know what they’re praying for? I mean, they’re praying God’s will for you. Wouldn’t you want to pray the same things that they’re praying for you? Isn’t that kind of the point?”

It felt like a mic drop moment for me.

I knew, on some level, that Jesus and Holy Spirit pray for me. But I had never once thought about what they were actually saying to God or that perfect prayers were being prayed on my behalf.

What if I’m not praying the same things? I thought. But it felt less like condemnation and more like hope and relief.

It can sometimes feel hard to know what to pray for or how to pray for it when what I really want is what God wants. For much of my life, praying for things felt like guessing. Praying scripture is an easy way to align with God’s word, but when it came to my life specifically, it felt like I was feeling around in the dark, throwing up prayers that had me wondering in the back of my mind, “Is this right? How do I know?”

To realize that Jesus and Holy Spirit are already communicating with God on my behalf was realizing there is already a prayer being prayed that I could simply agree with. What God has for me is not a guessing game, it’s a mystery to be revealed.

We have the mind of Christ. So if we want to know what to pray into, we can just turn to Jesus and Holy Spirit and ask, “What are You praying for?”

From there, our part is simple. We agree.

And, like my friend said, isn’t that kind of the point?

The power of God is in you, even on a Thursday.