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Prayer
Groanings
“Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because He maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God” (Romans 8:26-27).
Have you ever been so burdened or confused about something that when you prayed about it you couldn’t even put it into words? I have! In cases like that I have been very thankful for the assurance of these verses. In other words, by the time my groanings reach the ear of God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit has taken them and molded them perfectly so that what I could not express in human language has been graciously presented in perfection.
It has been well said, “It is wrong to murmur and complain but not wrong to groan.”“For we that are in this tabernacle do groan” (2 Corinthians 5:4). Don’t be afraid to come to the “Throne of Grace” (Hebrews 4:16), with your groanings.The Lord will hear and answer!
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