Title: From Weak to Strong
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▒▒▒ Bible : Romans 8:26~30
I pray in the name of the Lord that you will experience God's help and the work of the Holy Spirit during this time. Jacob snatches the blessing from his brother Esau and leaves Beersheba and runs away to his maternal uncle Laban's house. On his way alone like a loser, he slept with the sky as a blanket and stones as a pillow in a field called Rus. But that very night, God appeared in a dream. After meeting God, Jacob makes this confession. “Here is God, and I did not know it.” He poured oil on the stone on which he was lying and cut and built an altar there. Jacob experienced God's help and the work of the Holy Spirit when he felt weak and feared that he could do nothing. Joshua experienced many miracles. However, it was when he met God's messenger in front of Jericho that he saw God's help and God's work with his own eyes.
The help of God and the work of the Holy Spirit can be experienced when we are weak or helpless. Romans 8:26-30, which we read today, speaks of this very fact. “The Holy Spirit helps you in your weakness.” This is exactly that.
We cannot live even one day without God's help. However, it is when we are weak that we experience the help of God and the work of the Holy Spirit. The Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit helps us when we are in weakness, and the Holy Spirit prays to God on our behalf when we do not know how to pray. It also says that God hears our prayers, hears the supplications of the Holy Spirit, and blesses us so that our weaknesses become strengths so that all things work together for good. Today, in particular, among these works of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, we are going to share grace by thinking about how the work of the Holy Spirit is manifested when we are weak.
A British theologian named Phillips said that when people experience the work of the Holy Spirit, “the moment when you are about to give up on yourself is the moment you clearly experience the work of the Holy Spirit.” As theologian Olet Hallasby writes in his book Prayer, “It is the best time to pray when one is helpless and weak.” True prayer is to say that the prayer that we cry out in the helplessness and weakness that we cannot do on our own is true prayer. That is the prayer that moves the heart of God.
How can the Holy Spirit help us? The Holy Spirit prays to God on our behalf. Then, because God knows the heart of the Holy Spirit, He answers our prayers. If you need help from an adult in the household named A, and if you are not confident, it is better to go through someone rather than go by yourself. If an adult named A goes through a trusted person, an elderly person named A helps. The same is true of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit prays to God on our behalf. Then, because God knows the will of the Holy Spirit, He helps and blesses us.
Today, let's pray to God, realizing that we are weak and that we cannot do it in our own strength. The Holy Spirit will help us and make us strong when we are weak.
2008-04-25 21:27:57