18/09/2026
Friends, when you feel weak and don’t know how to pray (haven’t we all felt like that), when you struggle to put words to your suffering and deepest longings, remember: God is the Intercessor
“…it is God who initiates prayer, and it is God’s power, not ours, that answers to the world’s needs. We are always preceded in intercession. God is always already praying within us. When we turn to pray, it is already the second step of prayer. We join with God in a prayer already going on in us and in the world.
“The Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know how to pray a we ought: this does not mean, as it is most often taken, that we lack the proper techniques. Our ignorance is not that we do not know the right methods, but precisely that we think we know how to pray. We think it is something we do. It is not. How could it be, if we do not even know how how pray as we ought? We learn to pray by stopping the attempt and simply listening to the prayer already being prayed in us… Our task is simply to bring the Spirit’s utterances to language, to consciousness, to awareness.”
-Walter Wink, Engaging the Powers
Romans 8:26-27 “The Spirit also helps us in our present limitations. For example, we do not know how to pray worthily, but God’s Spirit within us is actually praying for us in those agonizing longings that cannot find words.” (Phillips translation)
Love you, friends. ❤️
