We don't know how or what to pray as we ought.

The Spirit steps in at those times and intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

What don't we know how to pray for?

Answer, we don't know God's secret will in our suffering.

I think one of the hardest parts of suffering is not knowing what God is doing.

We know his promises and we know he's good, but we don't know his plan, and that gap can feel

unbearable. I'm your host, Dan Kruver. In this episode of Light and Truth, John

Piper opens Romans 8 verses 18 to 27 to show us how the Spirit prays for us right there. This message

was originally delivered at the Cove in Asheville, North Carolina on July 10, 2003.

God intends to help us suffer. That's the point, really, of the rest of the chapter,

when he introduced here in order that, we provided we suffer with him in order

that we may be glorified with him when he introduced that suffering idea everything

else in this chapter relates to it and everything is about suffering from here on

out you you don't get away from it.

We are being killed all day long. We are counted as sheep to be slaughtered. That's what's coming.

Neither death, no life, nor anything else can separate us. Everything else is about suffering.

And the realities of the global context in which we live, which is absolutely horrible, and will remain horrible until

Jesus comes. And we're called to be the freest of all people in this horrible, fallen, futile,

decaying, suffering, slaughtering, killing Christian world.

We're to be the happiest,

most loving, sacrificial people in the world.

That's why he's writing this chapter.

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