In the same way the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should,but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings. Romans 8:26

We must remember that we are weak. But we have all been given the gift of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a part of God that, upon baptism, we have been given to help us in our daily lives. We tend to focus on the fact that we don’t know how to express our needs. Prayer is not about fancy words but about communicating our needs from a deep or desperate place with our heavenly Father. We don’t need to have the right words, only the right heart and intentions. The Spirit will intercede on our behalf and any need we have will be appropriately received.

Intercession is an amazing benefit in our lives. Much like when you need it most, and one of your friends or family seems to come to the rescue in your time of need, the Holy Spirit will always come to the rescue in your communication with God. Certainly, we have all struggled with a trial in our work or personal lives. Our Father in Heaven is all-knowing, and the Holy Spirit is our direct link. We must work to give our feelings and needs over to him even when we don’t quite know how to express these things. Our expression is only useful to our processing as God the Father already knows each of us intimately and will be at work in our lives if we are open to his action.

Prayer for Day 4: Pray today to become more reliant on the Holy Spirit’s intercession on your behalf. Pray that your habit around prayer and spiritual growth will continue to develop and that you will learn to rely on the Spirit when you are ill-equipped to gather your thoughts and prayers. Pray that examples of this will become clear to you and that you will learn to lean into the Spirit and the beautiful gift that you have been given.