When God's People Pray...Part 2

In Part 1, I highlighted "The Holy Spirit intercedes for me" from Wayne Watson's song "When God's People Pray." I was attempting to minister to a friend of mine and wrote about that. I modified what I wrote a little before posting it here in order to tone down some of the more personal bits in it:

You got beat up pretty badly, but the Holy Spirit has been right there with you the entire time. He intercedes for you in heaven with groanings and utterings that are not intelligible to human ears.

I think I know what some of them sound like:

Those utterings sound like the man sighing after the 10th call this month from creditors asking why he won't get a job and pay his debts.

They sound like the deep sadness of a single, pregnant mom-to-be when the father waltzes into church with a new young thing on his arm.

They sound like the quiet sobs of the young boy who is shocked, embarrassed, and ashamed when a respected pastor reaches into his clothing.

They sound like the silent shaking of a wife with young children whose husband attempts suicide.

The Holy Spirits utterings and groanings are even DEEPER and more PROFOUND than those hurts and those pains.

He intercedes for you in every hurt, in all of your pain, and through every situation. I believe the Holy Spirit interprets us to the Father and I believe it is because of the work of the Son that God is able to relate to our struggles.

God takes a record of everything that happens in his world according to the Bible. I believe our prayers and the Holy Spirit's intercedings are added to that record. I believe that we will be comforted when God reveals precisely how he acted to answer prayers...it is part of the story of His Redemption (Jesus Christ.)

We should make prayer an essential part of our daily ministry to others. And then we should act as God directs us to act.