With Groanings Which Cannot Be Uttered

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 God decides when the battles are over.  i love America because i love God most!  "You did not choose Me but I chose you and appointed you that you should go bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. - [John 15:16] The great secret of joy in having a relationship with Jesus Christ is that He helps me to give up my right to myself.


The Holy Spirit helps in my weaknesses.  i do not always know what i should pray for but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for me with groanings which cannot be uttered. - [Romans 8:26] Dear Lord, may the Holy spirit make intercession for me with groanings that can't be uttered, and i'm sure that doesn't mean speaking in tongues.  i swear if i hear Andrew Wommack go on and on about speaking in tongues, i'm going to give the latest book i have by him away to a better cause than me.

Just because Paul says that Christ sanctioned him to preach the gospel doesn't necessarily mean that Christ has sanctioned me to do the same.  i keep hearing "to go out and preach the Gospel" but i feel He wants me to do more than that.  And that doesn't necessarily mean by running my mouth.  i'm a doer not a talker.  My goal is God Himself.  And at any cost, dear Lord, by any road submitting to Your way.  Let me have the wisdom to hear You, to be plugged in, to discern Your voice above the voices of frauds.  Your way and Your character don't change.  

Keep me open to change so that i am more receptive to You.  "Come."  "Let's go."  "Trust Me."  i am ordinary, Your ways may seem extraordinary to me.  In all the world, there is none but You.

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