09/15/20 BOTCHED PRAYER? — Sorry to interrupt my THE GREATNESS OF OUR GOD posts, but something came up yesterday I just had to share!

My wife Linda and I have been trying to conduct a frustrating business transaction. Time was running out with no satisfactory resolution in sight. As we discussed it over breakfast, somehow I mentioned the name of the wrong company. After we read Scripture, I prayed especially for God’s help in this matter. When I finished Linda laughed and said, “That’s the SECOND time today you said the wrong name!” “Oh, no!” I said, “Do you think God is confused and will try to help us out with the wrong firm?” We both laughed loudly—we both remembered another time I did the same thing years ago.

I’m so grateful for Romans 8:26-27 (CSB) which says, “In the same way the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.”

So… Praise to God for His amazing prayer promises in Scripture and for the many times He has answered our prayers in definite, powerful ways. And thanks to You, Holy Spirit, for Your PERFECT prayers on our behalf. And, finally, THANK YOU GOD ALSO FOR UNANSWERED PRAYERS—for those times when we’ve actually botched it—asked for the wrong things or misspoken, and You knew better than to grant those requests.