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THE PRAYER YOU NEVER SPOKE · THIS IS THE LIFE PODCAST

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, hope you joined us yesterday as we began
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  Speaker 1: our week with Morning Moments with Jesus here on our
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  Speaker 1: This is the Life podcast today. We go to Romans
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  Speaker 1: chapter 8 in verse number 26. The Lord has really
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  Speaker 1: been doing, in my personal opinion and in my preparation
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  Speaker 1: for these devotions, really been doing a work as far
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  Speaker 1: as teaching us how to rely more on Him, how
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  Speaker 1: to trust Him. Even when life doesn't make sense to
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  Speaker 1: us or fall into our perspective of understanding, that's when
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  Speaker 1: our faith and our trust is stretched the most and
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  Speaker 1: It's when it grows the most is when we hold
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  Speaker 1: on to what is true, even through the uncertain times
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  Speaker 1: that we, in our own minds, in our own hearts,
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  Speaker 1: just really don't understand what's going on in our lives
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  Speaker 1: or in the lives of those that we love. This morning,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord takes us to Romans chapter 8 and verse 26.
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  Speaker 1: And we talk about prayer, but we talk about the
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  Speaker 1: prayer that you never speak. And it says, Likewise, the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit also helps our infirmities. For we know not what
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  Speaker 1: we should pray for as we ought. But the Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit itself, maketh intercession for us with groanings which
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  Speaker 1: cannot be uttered. And I look at that this morning
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  Speaker 1: and most of the time when we pray, if we're
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  Speaker 1: real honest about it, most of the time when we pray,
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  Speaker 1: We know exactly what we want to say to God,
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  Speaker 1: or pretty much what we want to say to God.
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  Speaker 1: The words come easily. Maybe our thoughts are clear. We
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  Speaker 1: can express what is on our hearts and on our
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  Speaker 1: minds rather easily. But there are other times when the
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  Speaker 1: burden and heartache is so deep, the pain too personal,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe the situation is too confusing that we can't
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  Speaker 1: even put it into words. We sit down to pray
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  Speaker 1: but nothing seems to come. Perhaps all we can do
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  Speaker 1: is sit in silence. Maybe the tears begin to fall
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  Speaker 1: before you're ever able to even form a sentence. And sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes we're just carrying feelings we can't explain and questions
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  Speaker 1: we don't even know how to ask God. Have you
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  Speaker 1: ever had those types of moments in your life? Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you're having one or going through one right now. When
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  Speaker 1: it's in those moments, we may feel as though we
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  Speaker 1: have failed to convey what we really wanted to say
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  Speaker 1: to God. But Romans 8.26 gives us hope this morning
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  Speaker 1: because it reminds us that when we do not know
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  Speaker 1: what to pray, the Holy Spirit does, and He helps us.
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  Speaker 1: He understands the groanings that cannot be uttered. God hears
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  Speaker 1: more than the words that leave your mouth this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I really want you to understand. He hears more than
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying. He understands everything that rests on your
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  Speaker 1: heart this morning. That tear, that was a prayer. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: that deep breath you take and that's all you can
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  Speaker 1: get out, that's a prayer. That moment when you whisper
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  Speaker 1: only the name of Jesus or Jesus help me, that's
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  Speaker 1: a prayer. Even the silence that you share with God
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  Speaker 1: can carry that meaning to Him that you just can't express.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to encourage you with that this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I want to tell you that. That that prayer is
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  Speaker 1: not measured by the number of words you speak or
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  Speaker 1: how beautifully you say those words. It is the honest
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  Speaker 1: desire to be near God even if the words won't come.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes the deepest prayers are not even spoken at all.
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  Speaker 1: They are felt in the places that only God can reach.
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  Speaker 1: We may not even fully understand what we are feeling
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  Speaker 1: at the moment, but God does. He knows whether the
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  Speaker 1: silence contains grief, fear, disappointment, hope, or maybe just a
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  Speaker 1: longing that has remained hidden from everyone else. But I
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  Speaker 1: want to tell you this morning, nothing within you is
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  Speaker 1: ever hidden from God. You don't have to explain everything
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  Speaker 1: perfectly before God will respond to you with compassion. You
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  Speaker 1: do not have to find the right words before He
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  Speaker 1: will draw near to you. I want to tell you
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  Speaker 1: this morning, your Heavenly Father already knows what you need
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  Speaker 1: before you ask. And the Holy Spirit, He carries the
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  Speaker 1: unspoken language that your heart conveys when you're in God's presence.
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  Speaker 1: So when the words won't come, Do not walk away
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  Speaker 1: from prayer. Simply just stay there for a little while.
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  Speaker 1: And let the tears fall if they fall. Let the
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  Speaker 1: silence speak. Trust that He understands the prayer you never spoke.
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  Speaker 1: Because the prayer you can't speak is still completely understood
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  Speaker 1: by God. So today you be safe. You be strong
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  Speaker 1: and you be blessed. And you be encouraged this morning.
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  Speaker 1: even when words won't come. Lord's will, we'll see you
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  Speaker 1: back here again tomorrow. And until then, have a great day.