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When You Don’t Know What To Pray

 

Billy Graham

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“The Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”
—Romans 8:26, NKJV

 

Have you ever faced a situation that was so overwhelming or so confusing you didn’t even know how to pray about it? Have you ever been so overcome with grief or burdened by heartache you couldn’t put your emotions into words—much less pray about them?

What a comfort these words should be: “The Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us … in accordance with God’s will” (Romans 8:26–27, NIV).

Think of it: even when we don’t know how to pray, the Spirit knows our needs, and He brings the deepest cries of our hearts before the throne of God. In ways we will never understand this side of eternity, God the Holy Spirit pleads for us before God the Father.

Turn to God in every situation—even when you don’t feel like it. The Spirit is interceding for you, in accordance with God’s will.

Hope For Today

Have you ever gone through a trial and felt an unexplainable peace that you were certain meant that someone was praying? How amazing to think that someone may just be the Holy Spirit Himself!

Does God really expect me to pray without ceasing?