The The Bible teaches that God's people and creation are groaning, longing for Christ's return.

And when we don't know how to pray, the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

Do you ever stop to think that this means God is praying to himself?

Alistairbegg investigates this today on Truth for Life.

I invite you to turn with me to the book of Romans and to chapter 8 and to verse 26.

We pick up Paul's argument.

He's told us that the creation is groaning.

He tells us that the church is groaning.

And now quite remarkably he tells us that God himself is groaning. He tells us that the church is groaning, and now quite remarkably he tells us that God himself is groaning. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness.

We do not know what we ought to pray for, or alternatively, how we ought to pray, but the Spirit

himself intercedes for us with groans that

words cannot express, and he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the

spirit intercedes for the Saints in accordance with God's will. Amen. Grecieous God, we pray now for your help that the Bible might be

alive to us, that you will conduct that divine dialogue with our spirits by the Holy Spirit

so that beyond the voice of a mere and an ordinary man, we might hear from

you the living God. This is our earnest hope and expectation, our humble cry. Hear our prayer

for Jesus' sake. Amen. During this past week, I enjoyed the privilege along with a friend of listening as a young man,

whom I'd never met before, told us how it was that he came to believe in Jesus, told us how it was

that he became a Christian. I don't have time to give you all the details.

Perhaps one day he'll be able to do it for himself.

But the striking thing that he said was

that the Holy Spirit essentially took over his life.

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