I was so tired when I woke up on July 5 from three nights of fireworks and rockets going off behind our bedroom window. I was cranky from lack of sleep and knowing that I had another night of this nonsense. Our neighbors across the irrigation ditch do it every year for four nights, July 2-5.
I knew I needed to get with the LORD, but I also knew I probably would not be able to put into words what I needed. Thankfully, the Holy Spirit has promised to help us in our weakness, praying for us.
“And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will.” [Romans 8:26-27 NLT]
Too often we don’t know what we need, much less how to verbalize it to God. We get tongue-tied in our prayers. But the Holy Spirit reads our hearts and interprets our deepest needs and desires even as we stumble with words that sometimes make little sense. He “pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will.”
He is our much needed “Heavenly Interpreter.” Thank you, Holy Spirit!
Amen&Amen