Recently someone submitted a comment and asked for further information about travailing prayer.
In the scriptures we see several instances of travailing prayer. A few of them are:
- Jesus travailing, pouring out His heart to His Father. Matt. 26:36-46
- Nehemiah wept and mourned for days. “I sat down and mourned, wept, certain days.” (Nehemiah 1:4)
- Apostle Paul experienced travail through his prayers. “My little children, for whom I am again suffering birth pangs until Christ is completely and permanently formed (molded) within you,” (Gal 4:19 AMP)
The Hebrew word for travail means to give birth or to bring forth. Through your prayers God will give birth to His will on this earth and the Holy Spirit will birth life into people and soften hard hearts. There is a battle going on for the souls of men and women. We must be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit, allowing Him to pray through us.
When the Holy Spirit travails through you, you may experience groaning. At other times, it may be an ongoing burden deep in your spirit that you continue to pray for.
I experienced this ongoing travail for one of my children called into ministry and I knew that Satan wanted to steal it. As I prayed, God revealed Satan’s tactics. My heart was burdened heavily. The burden remained on my heart. I would awaken with it, and it remained with me all day; I went to sleep with it on my heart, I would awaken in the night and the first thing on my heart was this child. This lasted for several months. Finally, God broke through and gave me a word from the book of Isaiah, telling me that the battle was over. Shortly thereafter I saw the breakthrough in the physical realm. God birthed what He is trying to do. This was not a time of begging God but of praying in faith with all types of prayer as the Holy Spirit led me. I prayed God’s promises faithfully. I prayed in the Spirit, I prayed with thanksgiving and praise even before I saw it come to pass in the natural. I was appropriating Gods will into the natural through prayer. His answer did not come immediately. It is important to press in until the breakthrough comes.
If you are willing to be God’s vessel, the Holy Spirit will pray through you.
The battle is the Lords and we must allow Him to lead us however He chooses. If we follow Him, we are guaranteed victory because He has already won it.
Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of hosts. (Z ech 4:6 NAS)
This battle is real and God is calling you to enforce His already accomplished victory upon this earth through prayer. Will you answer the call?
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you are so right what you said about traving prayer some people have not yet experience that ye i have and i thank god for all that he has done for me and is doing for me
Why when im praying i cry so much. And I dont know why im crying and sometimes i cant stop and my stomach hurts so bad but I cant stop crying.
Thank you so much for being obedient to the Holy Spirit and creating this site. I have recently been experiencing intercessory prayer on an entirely new level and thanks to this website I have gained a lot more understanding on this gift. I now realize that I am a prophetic intercessor and that God has been using me to stand in the gap for loved ones. Two days ago I travailed in the spirit and literally went through labour. It was so painful… not physical pain but emotional… nevertheless it was excruciating and I couldn’t stop crying. Reading this helps me see that I am not alone and I am not crazy.
Thank you
I am a intercessor when God lay someone on my heart I pray. I believe that I am at a new level in my pray life when travailing I feel like I am gaving birth to something in the spirit I want to learn more about travialing and groaming in the spirit. When I first start allowing the Holy Spirit to pray through me and for me I did’nt understand but now I am seeking more of the presence of the Holy Spirit to guide me in my pray life.
Thank You for such inspiring words. As I write this message, I am in prayer and fast for the soul of a loved one that God placed in my heart to wrestle in prayer for everyday. There’s always been a deep burden to pray for this person and I know its a mandate from the Lord Himself. In fact the first rhema word I heard from God over this person was a Word of Knowledge that I willl get a breakthrough soon. This was quite a while back and since then I’ve been travailing in prayer. A couple months ago the Lord told me that my prayer has been birth in. Confused as to the exact process of this topic, I was disappointed to have not seen any change yet with this person. After doing extensive research (which includes your website here) I have a better understanding of these things to know that when the prayer has been birth in, it takes but a short time after for the natural manifestation. I thank God for your website and the testimony of your situation with your daughter. It has blessed and greatly encouraged my heart. If it is possible that you feel led to share more with me on this subject, I will be greatly appreciative as I am eager to learn more and more. (You have my email address above). Thank you in advance
Wow im really blessed with the above message…God bless you. The Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness.
I am so encouraged by this. The Lord has just invited me into this new season of intercession, and I have begun experiencing travail. Thank you for this post. If there are any resources you’d recommend, I would love to learn and dig more.