The spirit praying for us. Romans 8:26 -27
And 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 New Living Translation.
I love reading Romans 8, it’s just so full of hope. I recommend you read it again and
again, especially on those days when you feel far from God and that he doesn’t love
you. Read verse 28 too, the following verse…….it’s my favorite and speaks so much
love and hope into weary souls. I actually memorized it many years ago from another
version and can still repeat it at call.
But today I want to focus on these verses above.
Just think through and meditate on the words…..God’s Holy Spirit himself helps us in
our distress. He prays for us. The Holy Spirit actually prays for you and me in our
times of distress when we don’t know how or what to pray, for he does. Even as I
type this I am aware of how many times I have just glanced over this passage on my
way to the following verse.
And I don’t think it can be expanded upon too much [ at least by me] as it’s written
around some other very beautiful encouraging words. So here’s my limited
understanding. I pray we both learn.
At times I get so worn out, usually from fighting mental illness or spiritual warfare
that I just can’t bring the words together to make an intelligible sentence. But I know
and rely in those times for the Holy Spirit to pray for me in exactly the ways spelt out
in those verses. I even often just collapse onto my bed and let out a few groans of my
own trusting that he knows what I’m saying and that it will be interpreted into words
the Father understands.
It amazes me in that final sentence that the Holy Spirit pleads for us believers. Not
only that he pleads for us but it is in ways according to God’s will. That, of course
should be obvious but sometimes we miss the obvious. I know I do!