Shalom I wish you a blessed and reflective Sunday. Come to the peace of God and hear what the Lord has to say. He wants to work in your heart in a powerful way.

The Spirit of God accepts your weakness!

Romans 8:26
In the same way, the spirit of our weakness also comes to the rescue. For we know not what we are to pray, as is due; But the spirit itself appears for us with unspoken sighs.

The word translated here is a complex term (gr. Synantilambanetai), which expresses the Holy Spirit “seizing” your weakness (lambanetai). He does this with you (syn) and your (adversary) as your advocate (i.e., someone who works for someone else). This means, on the one hand, that the Holy Spirit is united with you, so that in your circumstances you do not have to be a victim, but be a victor. You are called to victory by Jesus Christ because he has won the victory for you. But the Holy Spirit also works without you and sits down for you.
If you are helpless, he is truly your “helper”.

There are three important observations regarding the prayer support of the Holy Spirit.

(1) As the children of God, you have two great advocates (ie mediators who defend others or take responsibility for the sorrows and situations of other responsibilities): Christ sits for you in heaven (Rom 8:34, 1 John 2: 1) and the Holy Spirit Sit down for you on earth, out of your heart. Always stay in the Holy Spirit, because it gives you the strength you need for certain situations. God works through the Holy Spirit in the weak powerful.

(2) The phrase “with unspoken sighs” is meant to convey that the Holy Spirit communicates with the Father through the desperate cries and longings of your heart, if you lack the appropriate words and you can not express your needs and wishes to God. Every sighing and every tear that you weep is a prayer to your Father in heaven.

(3) The longings of your heart must come from the Holy Spirit who lives in you. He sits before the Father for your needs, “according to the will of God” (Rom 8:27). When you make your wishes yours, your prayer becomes effective. Here is not the talk of your own egoistic desires in your life, but always of the wishes of God in and for your life, which you make to yours to honor him.

Jesus Christ has taken his rightful place to the highest honor and authority with his Father in heaven (Heb, 1). There, he is continually interceding for you and for each of his successors, in accordance with the wishes and intentions of his father (cf Romans 8: 33-34, 1 Tim 2: 5, 1 John 2: 1). With your wishes is always the talk of the wishes which your Father in heaven, through the Holy Spirit has worked in you. Which then you express through your prayer so that he can hear them.

Hebrews 8: 1
But the chief thing in what we have said is that we have such a high priest, who sits on the right of the throne of Majesty in heaven,

Through His service of intercession, you experience God’s love and presence and receive mercy and grace (ie, unenlightened favor, love and spiritual empowerment) for every kind of need (Hebr4, 16), temptation (Luke 22:32), weakness, sin (1Jo1, 9, 2, 1) and contestation (Rom 8: 31-39). There is no situation that Jesus Christ can not know and imitate, because he has experienced it all through himself and has passed through

The high priestly prayer that Christ prayed for his people shortly before his death (see John 17) and his desire to fulfill and empower his followers with the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:33) help you to be the primary character of his ministry as your advocate With God. The Holy Spirit will reveal to you everything that was hidden for you until then. Through the intercession of Christ, those who “come to God through him” (ie, “coming continually” or “coming continually”, the Greek present participle emphasizing the ongoing duration of an action), grace to complete salvation. Christ’s intercession as your High Priest is necessary for your redemption. Without the grace, mercy, and help that Jesus gives to you through His work of intercession, you would fall away from God, fall back into the slavery of sin, and be condemned forever. Your only hope is to come to God in faith through Christ (see 1 Peter 1, 5). Out of you you would not make it, the sin would roll you down like a road planner and against the power of Satan you would not be able to survive. Always be grateful to Jesus Christ for your intercession with the Father.

Hebrews 4,16
So let us proceed with frankness to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace for timely help.

Because Christ can know your weakness, compassion with you (Hebr4, 15), and all that you experience in your life, you can come confidently to God and be sure that your prayers are welcome and desired by our Heavenly Father Cf. Heb. 10: 19-20). This place of encounter is called the “throne of grace,” because from there, God’s benevolence, love, help, mercy, forgiveness, wisdom, spiritual power, spiritual gifts, and the fruit of the Holy Spirit. In fact, God gives you everything you need in your particular situation. A special great blessing of redemption is the fact that Christ is now your high priest, the mediator between God and men; Which opens you to the presence of God where you can always find the help you need.

Notice that Christ does not remain an advocate or intercessor for those who refuse to confess and give up their sins (that is, selfish action contrary to God) and who turn away from their relationship to God (cf 1Joh1, 5-7; , 3, 10). His intercession to “save for ever” is only for those who come to God through him “(Hebrews 16: 16). There is no certainty and assurance for those who deliberately continue to sin and refuse to return to God (Heb 10: 21-31).

Jesus Christ is your only mediator (that is, mediator between God and man) and advocate in heaven. This means that any attempt to turn to angels or deceased saints as mediators or to pray through them to the Father is useless and unbiblical (Col1, 2; Hebr2, 18). Jesus Christ alone is the way and the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father only through him (Jn 3, 16).

Now come as you are before God’s throne, and trust your God, that whatever is, will serve you all things for the best. For God never causes His children to be put to shame.

God’s protection, blessings and peace
Your Pastor Thorsten Wurm (Lionheart)