Holy Spirit: The muscle of God

The Spirit Helps Us in Our Weakness



But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.Romans 8:25–27 

Paul is saying … that our failure to know God’s will and consequent inability to petition God specifically and assuredly is met by God’s Spirit, who himself expresses to God those intercessory petitions that perfectly match the will of God. When we do not know what to pray for—yes, even when we pray for things that are not best for us—we need not despair, for we can depend on the Spirit’s ministry of perfect intercession “on our behalf.”

In this particular season of my life i found i saw the power of the holy spirit moving in my prayer life when i could not even utter a word. they was a supernatural power that would say my prayer on my behalf. some times we are faced with life situations and we don't know how to pray on it let the holy spirit pray on your behalf.  Don't underestimate the power and the ministering of the holy spirit..the Holy Spirit is the muscle of God.Don't get the idea that the Holy Spirit is simply a mindless source of raw power. Far from it! When He moves in on a situation, He does it with wisdom and understanding so vast that it staggers the human mind. 

If the Holy Spirit is simply communicating with the Father about what we need, I cannot imagine why he would have to use wordless groans. He knows exactly what he wants to ask for. There is not the slightest confusion in his mind and he is never at a loss for how to communicate with the Father. So I doubt that these groans are groans that the Spirit addresses to the Father which are not our groans.
The Spirit groans the same way the Spirit witnesses: he inspires the groaning, and he inspires the witness. The groaning is his groaning, and the witnessing is his witness. But we experience the witness of the Spirit as the heartfelt, authentic welling up in us of a cry, "Abba, father!" And we experience the groaning of the Spirit in the welling up within us of groanings for the glory of Christ, but in ways and means that we do not know.

The Father searches our heart and he hears this groaning. He hears the Christ-exalting yearning in it, and he hears the Spirit’s clear intention that certain decisions and circumstances come about in the exact way that will bring the most glory to Jesus.


One of the reasons this matters so much is that it means that in the very moment of some of our deepest frustrations, our groanings are the very work of God's Spirit FOR us and not against us. Remember, Paul is helping us endure the suffering and futility and decay and groaning of this world – that is the point of all these verses! And here he encourages us by saying that our weakness in this world will always include some ignorance about what the will of God is and how to pray. Yes, we should strive to know what the will of God is (Romans 12:1-2; Ephesians 5:17).

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