Maybe in your ignorance, you need to just relax and let the Holy Spirit pray.

Because he will ask the Father for the particulars of how Christ is to be magnified here, and it will be done.

Either with illumination on your part or without illumination on your part,

you will find yourself led by the sovereign Father in response to the merciful pleadings

of the Holy Spirit. If you feel overwhelmed by uncertainty or suffering, how does God provide for you?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper opens Romans 8, 26, and 27 to show how

the spirit intercedes for us in our weakness to accomplish God's goodwill.

This sermon was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on June 2, 2002.

We're focusing on verse 26 and 27.

You see what it says.

We have weaknesses.

The Spirit helps us in our weakness.

Part of our weaknesses that we don't know what to pray from time to time.

The Spirit intercedes for us with groanings that are wordless.

The Father who searches the hearts, sees, knows the mind of the Spirit,

and he does what the Spirit asked him to do and brings about

everything to work together for our good I asked three questions last week what does he

pray when he prays the Holy Spirit for us and how does he pray and why does he pray and I

tried to answer the what question last week let Let me summarize and then move to the other

two this morning. What does he pray? He prays that God would bring about decisions and circumstances

that would magnify Christ in our lives when we don't know how to pray and don't know the particulars

of how Christ would be glorified in our lives.

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