We do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered —Romans 8:26
When we become children of God; we begin to move in the spiritual world. But it is a world with which we are not familiar. We tend to still think in the natural. Part of the work of the Holy Spirit is to teach us the ways of the spiritual and to intercede for us in matters we do not yet understand.
We realize that we are energized by the Holy Spirit for prayer; and we know what it is to pray in accordance with the Spirit; but we don’t often realize that the Holy Spirit Himself prays prayers in us which we cannot utter ourselves. When we are born again of God and are indwelt by the Spirit of God, He expresses for us the unutterable.
“He,” the Holy Spirit in you, “makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God” (Romans 8:27). And God searches your heart, not to know what your conscious prayers are, but to find out what the prayer of the Holy Spirit is.
Learn to trust the leadings of the Holy Spirit and grow as He teaches.
Nick
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