Romans 8:26 (KJV): “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.”
How many in the “body” allows this to happen in their lives, in Christ?
Scripture says that I’m infirmed. I still haven’t had my mind fully renewed; “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” Romans 12:1-2. Not having a renewed mind I can’t pray as I should, thats what that says right?
We pick and chose what we like and don’t like. We use “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28. Will piously use this verse during hardships and are totally unaware that we don’t know how to pray for our own self let alone others, I’m a mess, were a mess; we need the Holy Spirit to help and guide us; and all the more so in how we communicate with God.
Words in BLUE aren’t scripture but thoughts to consider while reading.
Verse 26 states that, “the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:” (God says I need His help. Where do I need Help? in my prayers, to begin with) “for we” (believers who are in Christ 1 Corinthians 12:13) “know not what we should pray for as we ought:” (yes we pray but not as we ought, I don’t know how!) “but the Spirit itself (this to me is a bad translation “itself”?, would better be translated Himself) maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered” ( God’s own Spirit will pray for us “intercession” but we have to believe that He can and does, and then allow Him too: we need to learn, believe and trust.) “and He”, verse 27 (the intercessor) “he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints” (those in Christ, the body, the church) “according to the will of God.” (my heart first: before He will use me to intercede for others, I have to know who I am in Him, to know in Whom I have believed, to know what I believe and that what I believe is true according to what God’s Word says, not what some man tells me it means or says). “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son” (so I need to know how Paul prayed for himself and others and allow God’s Spirit to intercede for me). “that he (the LORD Jesus Christ) might (its a choice I make as to who He is, what I think or what God has said) be the firstborn (which is firstborn from the dead, Christ died physically and spiritually) among many brethren (those who will believe and are saved). Whom he (God before the foundations of the world) did predestinate, them he also called (knew who would believe and be born again) them he also justified: and whom he justified (Romans 4:25), them he also glorified.” (Just as He predestinated me in Himself He has (past tense) “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:” Ephesians 1:3.
Until the church, the body of Christ believes God in all His Words, “rightly dividing the Word of truth”: not fussing and fighting over here say and man’s thoughts but the thoughts of God, not until; then will we understand the unity of the Spirit in Christ and will work the work that He has purposed in us to do; His body, since ages past. The church is sick; the church needs to be healed, but that can’t happen until the church comes into one spirit and believes God: that starts with the body, praying as we should. Just my thoughts, but thats what is on my mind and in my heart.
One example where Paul prayers for others that was in accordance with God’s will.
“Wherefore I (Paul) also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus (Paul had spiritual discernment, and by those believers testimony , knew those who were in Christ), and love unto all the saints (believers relationship one with others of the body), Cease not to give thanks for you (was thankful for those who believed the truth of God and were working the work God made for them to do), making mention of you in my prayers (as he should); That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory (Paul understood the triune relation of God in Himself and their responsibilities with each other, their work to perform on our behalf), may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; (those truths given, wisdom, knowledge and understanding would be accepted by grace through faith, not received by man’s knowledge but as Paul received by revelation from the risen Christ: Galatians 1:11-12, so would receive) that ye may know what is the hope of his (God’s) calling (because it was revealed by God alone through the Holy Spirit to our spirit, renewing our minds, when we accept and believe, nothing wavering), and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints (that understanding being worked out through the body of the church), And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe (we fail to experience this power because the church has failed to believe as we should), according to the working of his mighty power, (so when we don’t believe, for what ever reason, we diminish God’s ability to work and move in our behalf, we lack power, the body stays sick) Which he (God) wrought in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:18-19), when he raised him from the dead (Colossians 2:15), and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places (Hebrews 1:3), Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named (Acts 4:12), not only in this world, but also in that which is to come (Revelation 21:1): And hath put all things under his feet (made sovereign), and gave him to be the head over all things to the church (believers of the gospel which is: “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:” 1 Corinthians 15:1-4; (continuing Paul’s prayer for us the church) which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.” Ephesians 1:15-23.
Another place where Paul prays for the body but not so said in as many words I believe is: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:35-39.
The reason I see it as a prayer is because of the use of the word “us” in verse 39: “shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” To me I see that as a prayer from Paul for those who believe there after.
Thank You LORD Jesus for loving me and giving me Your life. I’m most thankful You are patient with me in my humanity, my flesh remembering that I’m but dust. A thought, a question just came to mind: Did Abraham realize that he was so much more, that the eternal part of him is spirit which because of sin was dead to You? Thank You for allowing me to see and meditate on the questions You place in my heart; I need more time. In Jesus’s name, Your name Amen . . . . .
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