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said that the Spirit ‘maketh intercession for us, with groanings which cannot be uttered.’ Rom. 8:26. Such prayer God delights to answer. When with earnestness and intensity we breathe a prayer in the name of Christ, there is in that very intensity a pledge from God that He is about to answer our prayer ‘exceed ing abundantly above all that we ask or think.’ Eph. 3:20.” Christ’s Object Lessons , 147.3. When we realize that the Holy Spirit supplies the power whereby our prayers obtain sufficient energy to reach our heav enly Father, then at the very beginning of our prayer, with a faith that will not be denied, we will claim the promise that the Holy Spirit will inspire our prayer. Those who understand and do this find a power and freshness developing in their prayers that they had not thought possible. The Holy Spirit so willingly and effectively plays such a vital role in the prayer life of God’s needy children on earth, that it is beyond our fullest apprecia tion. But the better we understand, value, and appropriate the Holy Spirit’s assistance, the more closely we will be united to our Saviour and King, and in turn to one another. The Holy Spirit delivers those prayers which are made mighty by His own inspiration to the all-powerful Intercessor who stands at the Father’s right hand. Christ then mingles His spotless righteousness with such prayers so they are actually presented to the Father in all the power and perfection of our great High Priest. A beautiful revelation of Christ in this role is given in Reve lation 8:3–5. “Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne. The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, went up before God from the angel’s hand. Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.” Christ our Intercessor