God’s Comfort For Today - Comfort In Weakness (Daily Devotional)

Welcome to Living Supernaturally, we're so glad that you could join us today as we study God's word. God's word is living, powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, and able to bring life and faith and produce faith in us and strengthen us. It is so refreshing to study God's word. In fact, the Bible says in Ephesians where we see that we are washed by the word of God. There is so much of cleansing that happens as we read God's word. Not only that, but we are also comforted when we read God's word. God's word brings in so much comfort that goes beyond human reason and logic. Like people can say words of comfort and that is good. We can receive that and God has placed people in our lives so that they can speak words of comfort and they can comfort us and fellowship with us, that is great. But there are times when human words do not bring comfort but God's comfort goes beyond human words, beyond human logic, and beyond human reason and that's why He's called the God of all comfort. The God of mercies and the God of all comfort which means that He is the ultimate source of comfort. And we look into God's word, we see that there is so much comfort that comes back to us as we receive His word, as we live by His word. So, we look at Romans chapter 8, verses 26 to 28 which says, ‘Likewise, the Spirit also helps us in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.’ This scripture brings about so much comfort to us. It says the Holy Spirit helps us in our weaknesses. In our weak moments, we do not even know what we should pray for, we do not have words to pray. In those moments, I'm sure all of us have gone through those times, gone through those moments when things are so numb, we don't feel anything and we don't even have the words to pray or words to speak. It is especially in those moments; scripture promises and says the Holy Spirit helps us. How does He help us? He knows that we don't know what we should pray for. He knows and so He comes in and He makes intercession for us with groanings. He's talking about the gift of the Spirit - gift of praying in tongues, gift of praying in the Spirit. It says He searches the heart, He knows what the mind of the Spirit is, He makes intercession according to the will of God. He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God and it says this, beautiful verse here right at the end and says, Now, we know that all things work together for good to those who are the called to those who love God.’ And that's a promise for us today and that's the comfort for us today. Let's pray, Father, we thank you for this wonderful gift of praying in tongues and wonderful promise that the Holy Spirit, you know, when we are weak and when we don't have words to pray, you pray for us, you make intercession for us with groanings, not articulate words, but groanings which cannot be uttered. And Lord, we thank you for this wonderful gift of praying in tongues. And Lord, we thank you for this exhortation to continue to pray in tongues in order to receive that comfort that comes from you, the eternal comforter. We thank you, we give you all praise and glory, in Jesus’ matchless name we pray, Amen. Thank you for tuning in to Living Supernaturally, for more resources to strengthen your spiritual walk, please visit apcwo.org.