hyper-intercession

 Thursday, October 15, 2020 (5:33 a.m.)

Holy God,

We need You. Very badly. It’s a different day. With a different problem.

Father, I confess to You right now. I don’t even know how or what to pray.

And here I follow Your lead to Romans 8:25-27, The Passion Translation. Blessed God, how I thank You for the love You have for each and every single one of us. Thank You that You are good. You are holy. You are everything we need.

Thank You for the sliver of the moon that is rising in the east. Just before the sun. Odd. I’ve never been aware of this before.

Thank You Father that You continue giving us things for which to be grateful. Oddities. Unexpected twists. None of it without Your awareness.

“So because our hope is set on what is yet to be seen, we patiently keep on waiting for its fulfillment. And in a similar way, the Holy Spirit takes hold of us in our human frailty to empower us in our weakness” (vs. 25-26a). Oh yes please Lord!

“For example, at times we don’t even know how to pray, or know the best things to ask for” (v. 26b). Yes!

“But the Holy Spirit rises up within us to super-intercede on our behalf, pleading to God with emotional sighs too deep for words” (26c). My trust and belief right now.

“God, the Searcher of the heart, knows fully our longings, yet He also understands the desires of the Spirit, because the Holy Spirit passionately pleads before God for us, His holy ones, in perfect harmony with God’s plan and our destiny.” Oh yes please Dearest Father.

Looking to the footnotes of this translation, I read “The Greek word huperentugkhano is best translated ‘super [or hyper]-intercede for us.’ We can only imagine how many blessings have poured into our lives because of the hyper-intercession of the Holy Spirit for us!” Oh yes Lord. We can only imagine!

Continuing in the commentary I read of You as also “God, the heart-searcher.” What comfort that allows. “God searches our hearts not just to uncover what is wrong, but to fulfill the true desire of our hearts to be fully His. Grace triumphs over judgment.”

And therein lies my prayer for this day. Your grace to triumph over judgment Lord. We as a society are in such a sorry state. We absolutely need Your grace to triumph over judgment.

I look to Your Holy Spirit and the power of hyper-intercession to pray all that needs to be prayed right now. All the love and acceptance that is needed that we as dear brothers and sisters would truly “fix [our] thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise” (Philippians 4:8 New Living Translation).

Oh that we would truly ‘keep putting into practice all we have learned and received - everything we have heard and seen’ from following Paul’s teachings that You, our “God of peace” would be with us (Philippians 4:9).

We need You Lord. Desperately. It’s in Your Son’s most holy name that we pray. Asking. Seeking. Knocking. Your will. Your way. Your best. Amen.

(551 words ~ 6:53 a.m.)