Romans 8:26-27 (ESV Strong's)
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
The Spirit Prays for Us
In Luke 11:1 the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray. His answer was what we now refer as, “The Lord’s Prayer.” That answer gave them the “technical” side of praying ... “how” to do it. But, in the above passage, Paul teaches us “what” is happening during our coming to God in prayer. Paul tells us that when we pray, the Holy Spirit is actually praying through us. When we pray, as the passage states, the Holy Spirit knows what the mind of God is and, as we pray in faith, the Spirit of God “intercedes for us with groaning too deep for words.” The Trinity has their own language. When Paul states that the Spirit talks to God on our behalf, He does so with words we do not even understand. This is not “our groaning,” as though we can somehow talk in a gibberish that the Spirit can use to create some form of dialect for God to know what we want. No, it is the other way around. The Spirit takes our asking, seeking and knocking and translate that into an unknown Inter-Trinitarian language, only understood by the three persons of the Godhead. When we pray all three of the Godhead are present. We don’t know what to pray for, so the Spirit takes our payers, done in faith, and through the ministry of the Son and His sacrifice the destroyed the barrier between us and God and cries out to God, who hears the Spirit and gives us His will in the thing we asked for. That is what it means to pray in the Spirit.
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