Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, August 21st.

Painful moments can leave us unsure of how to pray, but it is in those emotional, overwhelming times that believers can rely on the Holy Spirit, our greatest helper in prayer.

One of the most powerful privileges you and I have is the privilege of prayer.

That is, that we have the privilege of personally talking to the only true living God.

And the wonder of it all is this, that God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit,

are all involved every single time we pray. And I'm persuaded that if most of us

understood what really takes place, when we pray, we would pray more, more often, and see more results.

Well, I'm trusting today that this message is going to encourage you in your praying if you

understand a little better exactly what happens

every single time you and I come to God in prayer.

The title of this message is the Holy Spirit, a helper in prayer.

And I want you to turn, if you will, to Romans chapter 8.

And in this familiar passage, Paul gives us an explanation of what really takes place when

you and I pray. Beginning in verse 26, and we'll read the 26 and the 27 verses, he says,

and in the same way, the Spirit also helps our weakness, but we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit

himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts

knows what the mind of the Spirit is because he intercedes for the saints according to the

will of God. My friend, the will of God is the plan of God

and the purpose of God for your life and my life. It is the intention of God for us. It is the

purpose of plan of God for our life. Next week, next month, next year, our vocation, our marriage,

our family, our children, all these things. That is, the

father has a will for all of that. Now, the will of God isn't some mystery which God withholds

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