I was visiting with someone recently who is fighting a tremendous battle which has gone on for several years and now they are battling discouragement. They shared that they no longer know what to pray for. My mind immediately went to Romans 8:26: “The Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.” Most of us have been there, that place where we don’t know how to pray. It’s a place where the sentences we string together to sound like prayer make no sense at all. It’s a place where the effort to pray seems futile. It is there that we need prayer born of the Spirit. This is another dimension of calling upon God; it’s where the Holy Spirit supernaturally assists us. This is not a worked-up emotionalism, but a powerful promise of help from God himself! What we need to remember is that we have this tremendous power available to us. We can, even in a state of hopelessness, reach out to God with the promise his Holy Spirit will intervene on our behalf.
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Good morning, Rev,
As I was visiting Blogsville this am, I scanned the supernatural section. Romans always catches my eye because a few years ago I named Romans 8: 28 as my personal verse. I guess that it might be wise to concentrate on 26-30 for a few days as a look into the present and future.
Here are scriptures that I try to refer to everyday, but when you're a little ADHD and have "other" things going on in your head, it gets busy. Anyway, I have missionaries whom I support and WGM has asked us to pray these for us. I use them for the missionaries and greedily for myself and family. I want to share them with the group if I can remember to bring them next time.
1. A FOCUS ON GOD: Matthew 6:33
2. HUMILITY: James 1:5
3. BOLDNESS: Ephesians 6:19
4. REST Mark 6:31
5. PEACE Philippians 4:6-7
Have a great sun-filled day and word to the wise...do NOT drink a 12 oz. delicious iced tea AFTER meetings and before bedtime!
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