A Great Prayer Resource
The Holy Spirit helps us in our distress. For we don’t even know what we should pray for, nor how we should pray. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will. Romans 8:26-27
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Have you ever just not known how or what to pray? Perhaps you have run out of words, or a situation has left you speechless or in so much pain that all you can do is groan. In Romans 8:26 Paul explains a prayer resource we may not realize we have or do not take advantage of: the Holy Spirit. When circumstances or pain leave us without words to pray, we can yield to God’s Spirit. This means that we do not pray out of our own understanding or try to figure out what to pray but we rest in the fact that he knows our heart and he knows the situation. Verse 27 says that the Father who knows all hearts also knows what the Spirit is saying on our behalf in the most baffling or distressing times. He makes prayers out of our tears, our sighs, and our groanings. What a wonderful thing to know that the Holy Spirit is interceding and, even beyond that, pleading for us believers in harmony with God’s will. In addition, Jesus, at the right hand of the Father in heaven, the place of highest honor—is praying for us!
Prayers:
THANK YOU, HOLY SPIRIT, for praying through us in perfect agreement with God’s will and, with Jesus, interceding for us at the throne of God. When we don’t know the words to say or have no words at all, you carry our sighs, groans, and tears into God’s presence for us. What amazing grace!
Quotes:
THIS IS THE GOD-GIVEN REVELATION: THAT WHEN WE ARE BORN AGAIN OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND INDWELT BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, HE INTERCEDES FOR US WITH A TENDERNESS AND AN UNDERSTANDING AKIN TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND AKIN TO GOD, THAT IS, HE EXPRESSES THE UNUTTERABLE FOR US.
Oswald Chambers (1874–1917)
The One Year Bible Readings for today are: 2 Chronicles 11:1–13:22; Romans 8:26-39; Psalm 18:37-50 and Proverbs 19:27-29.
