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Romans 8:26

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

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Romans 8:26. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:

And especially our infirmities in prayer, for there is where infirmities are mostly seen.

Romans 8:26. For we knew not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

I should have thought that it would have read, "But the Spirit itself teaches us what we should pray for." But it does more than that. He goes beyond teaching us what we should pray for. He "maketh intercession for us, with groanings which cannot be uttered." Do you know what those groanings are? I am afraid that those who never had groanings which cannot be uttered will never know anything of that glory which cannot be expressed, for that is the way to it. The groanings that cannot be uttered lead on to unutterable joy.

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