it by the power of the Spirit of grace.
XXII. _The Spirit of Grace and of Supplication._
The Holy Spirit is called "the Spirit of grace and of supplication" in
Zech. xii. 10, R. V., "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, _the Spirit of grace and of supplication_;
and they shall look unto Me whom they have pierced: and they shall mourn
for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for
his first-born." The phrase, "the Spirit of grace and of supplication" in
this passage is beyond a doubt a name of the Holy Spirit. The name "the
Spirit of grace" we have already had under the preceding head, but here
there is a further thought of that operation of grace that leads us to
pray intensely. The Holy Spirit is so called because it is He that teaches
to pray because all true prayer is in the Spirit (Jude 20). We of
ourselves know not how to pray as we ought, but it is the work of the Holy
Spirit of intercession to make intercession for us with groanings which
cannot be uttered and to lead us out in prayer according to the will of
God (Rom. viii. 26, 27). The secret of all true and effective praying is
knowing the Holy Spirit as "the Spirit of grace and of supplication."
XXIII. _The Spirit of Glory._
The Holy Spirit is called "the Spirit of glory" in 1 Pet. iv. 14, "If ye
be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for _the Spirit of
glory_ and of God resteth upon you: on their part He is evil spoken of,
but on your part He is glorified." This name does not merely teach that
the Holy Spirit is infinitely glorious Himself, but it rather teaches that
He imparts the glory of God to us, just as the Spirit of truth imparts
truth to us, and as the Spirit of life imparts life to us, and as the
Spirit of wisdom and understanding and of counsel and might and knowledge
and of the fear of the LORD imparts to us wisdom and understanding and
counsel and might and knowledge and the fear of the LORD, and as the
Spirit of grace applies and administers to us the manifold grace of God,
so the Spirit of glory is the administrator to us of God's glory. In the
immediately preceding verse we read, "But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are
partakers of Christ's sufferings: that, when His glory shall be revealed,
ye may be glad also with exceeding joy." It is in this connection that He
is called the Spirit of glory. We find a similar connection between the
sufferings which we endure
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