An Amazing Offer

 Amazing Offer

Who of us hasn’t felt weak and inadequate for a task?  It will be different circumstances for each of us but there aren’t many days when we don’t run into that kind of experience, wouldn’t you say?

Here is God’s kind offer to us at exactly those moments.

The Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Romans 8:26

Aren’t you glad that the God who knows everything there is to know about us and the situation we are facing is ready and willing to pray on our behalf?  And the best part of that is that when the Spirit prays in us, He’s helping us pray according to God’s will.

Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. 

Romans 8:27-28

We are given words to our prayers when we don’t even know what to say or ask, and promised that whether we get it right or not, whether things go as they should in our circumstances or not, God will work it all together for good – all of it. All things will work together for good. 

Now if that doesn’t take the pressure off us, then we simply are choosing to not believe what God says.  And unfortunately, I have to admit that it’s a challenge for me to trust these amazing words at certain points in certain situations.  You probably have experienced that as well. 

In other places in the Bible God promises us too:

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go.  I will counsel you and watch over you. 

Psalm 32:8

Oh Lord, these statements seem almost too good to be true.  We are so twisted in our thinking by our culture that has us believing that we have to be “self-made” and if anything is going to happen we have to do it. 

Lord today, help us to slow down and pay attention to Your guidance that is there for us continually.  When we don’t even know what to pray help us to just stop and be present to You and give the Holy Spirit permission and opportunity to say what needs saying. 

Give us faith to believe that You are working for good in everything that’s going on in our lives – whether we see it or not.  You are not a liar.  You are true to Your word. 

Help us to stand strong, stand with humility, and stand with trust in Your power and goodness working on our behalf.  Amen

God is ready to help us in our weakness today.  Are we willing to admit we are weak and to ask and receive that help?  Let’s try to do that today.