When You Can’t Even Pray, God Still Shows Up
You’ve been there. The kind of place where you can’t even find the words to pray. You sit, frozen in your chair with tears pouring down your cheeks. It’s dark. It’s painful. It’s lonely. It’s confusing. There’s no hope in sight. But in those moments, God is not far off somewhere; in fact, He’s with you in the thick of it all. The Holy Spirit intervenes right there and intercedes for you with “groanings too deep for words” (Romans 8:26). That’s not poetry, that’s what’s real. The Spirit of God searches your heart more deeply than you know yourself, and lifts up your sighs in utter conformity to the will of God.
This isn’t spiritual bypassing. This isn’t positive thinking. This isn’t wishful hoping. This is God taking you by the hand, the God who said, “for those who love God all things work together for good” (Romans 8:28). That doesn’t mean everything’s going to feel good. It doesn’t mean that you won’t cry, or fear, or struggle. It means that God is working everything. He’s working the good and the broken, the dark and the light, the bitter and the sweet of your life toward His purposes. God’s not hoping, God’s not guessing, God’s not panicking. He’s got a plan, and it didn’t begin in your moment of crisis. This was His purpose before you ever took your first breath. He planned that you’d be in Christ. He planned to conform you to the image of His Son (Romans 8:29). You’re not an afterthought. You’re part of a divine design that’s been in motion since before the foundation of the world.
That’s why the Christian life is not built on feelings, or circumstances, or your own strength. No, the Christian life is built on what God has done. If God called you, He will also justify you. If God justifies you, He will glorify you (Romans 8:30). It’s not a maybe. It’s a promise. And if that’s true, let me ask you a question. A question that should silence every doubt, every fear, every worry in your life: “If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31).
Listen to this: God did not spare His own Son. He gave Him up for you. For you. So if God did that for you, don’t even think for one second that He’s going to leave you now. He’s not holding anything back. He’s not going to hold back His goodness or His presence in your life. Christ Jesus, who died and rose again, is sitting at the right hand of God in the very place of glory, interceding for you (Romans 8:34). He is your Defender, not your accuser. He is your friend, not your judge.
So what can separate you from His love? Pressure? Persecution? Danger? Loss? Not even death? Nothing. “In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” (Romans 8:37). Not because you are strong, but because He is. Not because you have done enough, but because He chose you. Not because the road is going to be smooth, but because His love will never, ever let go of you.
Look at the words again: “For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers… nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38–39). This is the kind of love that holds you when everything else is falling apart around you. This is the kind of love that saves you, keeps you, and never, ever lets go. Are you resting in that today? If not, it’s time to.
2 Chronicles 11:1-13:22
Romans 8:26-39
Psalm 18:37-50
Proverbs 19:27-29
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New Testament: Romans 8:26-39
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July 24 as we open up the New Testament for today, we’ll be looking into the book of Romans and reading from chapter 8, verses 26 through 39. We’ll read about guidance. God’s purpose is to make his children like his Son, and he will succeed. The Spirit intercedes for us and guides us as we pray and the circumstances of life work for our good, no matter how painful they may be. We’ll also read about love.
The Spirit of God makes the love of God real to us. You can count on that. The Father is for us, the Son is for us, and the Holy Spirit is for us. That ought to be very encouraging news for anyone within the sound of my voice that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are on your side. See, nothing can separate us from his love.
Is there any reason why we should not be more than conquerors? All right, let’s begin our reading today in the New Testament. Romans 8:26-39
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