Hi, and thanks for joining us for today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Anne Cetus wrote today's reading, and she titled it, No Misunderstanding.

Alexa, Siri, and other voice assistants embedded in smart devices in our homes occasionally misunderstand what we're saying.

A six-year-old talked to her family's new device about cookies and a dollhouse.

Later, her mom received an email saying that in order of seven pounds of cookies and a $170 dollhouse were on their way to her home.

Even a talking parrot in London whose owner had never bought anything online

somehow ordered a package of golden gift boxes without her knowledge.

One person asked their device to turn on the living room lights, and it replied,

there is no pudding room.

There's no such misunderstanding on God's part when we talk with him.

He's never confused because he knows our hearts better than we do.

The Spirit both searches our hearts and understands God's will.

The Apostle Paul told the churches in Rome that God promises he'll accomplish his good purpose of maturing us and making us more like his son.

Even when because of our weakness, we don't know what we need in order to grow.

The Spirit prays according to God's will for us.

Troubled about how to express yourself to God,

not understanding what or how to pray,

say what you can from the heart.

The Spirit will understand and accomplish God's purpose.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Romans chapter 8,

verses 26 through 30. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness we do not know what we ought to pray for but the spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans and he who

searches our hearts knows the mind of the spirit because the spirit intercedes for God's people in accordance with the will of God.

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