Amen. Amen. All right. Well, Brother Shane, would you hand, you and Brother Foy be the outline men? All right. All right, if you would, we'd turn your Bible to Romans chapter eight tonight. Romans chapter number eight. And let me make mention of this. Right after the service, if I could get some of you fellas to help, we're gonna move all this stuff off and the piano, we're gonna move it right here. They're having a piano recital tomorrow night. So if we could do that right after there, that'd be a help. Appreciate that very much. And while they're handing that out, let me ask you this. When you think of Romans chapter 8, if I were to ask you the verse that probably stands out in your mind the most in Romans chapter 8, what would it be? Verse 28, right? Yep. So when you look at Romans 8, 28, The Bible said, we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called, who are the called according to his purpose. Now we like to, we like to claim that verse, don't we? And it's true. We're not, definitely not disputing that. Tonight we want to pay attention to verse 26 and also verse 27. And I think if we look at verse 26 and verse 27, it will mean more to us studying about verse 28. So the Bible in verse number 26, well, let's go back to verse 24. The Bible said, for we are saved by hope, but hope that is seen is not hope for what a man seeth. Why doth he yet hope for? So there we're talking about salvation in verse 24, verse 25. But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it? So already we're talking about in verse 24, verse 25, we're talking about our faith. There are things that we can't see, but that we know there's evidence for, right? And we know that without faith, it is impossible to please God. All right, so then we get down to verse 26 the Bible says likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities Notice this for we know not what we should pray for as we ought But the Spirit itself make the intercession for us with groaning which cannot be uttered and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is in the what is the mind of the Spirit and because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. Then you come to verse number 28, and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose. So it looks to me, again, if we read those verses in context that it is letting us know first of all that we have to be saved but also in verse 26 it talks about the Spirit helping our infirmities and that we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit itself make the intercession for us which to me brings more clarity to verse 28 because A lot of times when we look at things, Brother Chad, we do not understand how they fit in the plan of God. So they're beyond our comprehension. And so when we don't know how to pray or what to pray for, then we know that we have a instructor or a helper in prayer whose name is the Holy Spirit. Well, let me ask you this. If I were to ask you tonight to give me an answer that what is the purpose and the role of the Holy Spirit? What would it be? What's that? Comfort. That's one. Brother Foy? Teacher. God. What else? Conviction, right? So we know when we think about the Holy Spirit, we talk about Holy Spirit conviction, we talk about the comfort, right? We talk about the understanding, we talk about the Spirit being a guide. But many times we don't think of the Spirit being an intercessor for us, the Holy Spirit being an intercessor in prayer. So what everybody said is 100% accurate. And think about this, one of the roles of the Holy Spirit is to make much of Jesus. Right? And sometimes we miss that. We make more of the Holy Spirit than we do of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. But the Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit, His primary purpose is to make much of Jesus. And so Romans 8 26 talks about the Spirit and there is much that we need to learn about the subject and the practice of prayer. I mean just these few Sunday or Wednesday nights we're doing this, there's no way, there's volumes that have been preached on prayer, there's volumes that have been written on prayer, there's people that have more experience than any of us do, but we have to understand that we're in much need of help. Right? I mean we're in much need of help when it comes to prayer. So there's one willing and able to teach us. Now again we talked about how the disciples in the first sermon how that they heard Jesus pray and it moved them to the point that they went to Jesus and said teach us to pray. Well now Paul is telling us that we have an instructor in prayer because in verse 26 it says likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities now it goes on to say for we know not what we should pray for as we ought that didn't say we didn't know what to pray for it said we didn't know what to pray for as we ought So it tells me that there's a particular thing we should pray for and there's a particular way we should pray and that in our humanity we don't understand that all the time, right? So the Bible said, but the Spirit itself made the intercession for us with groaning which cannot be uttered. There's one willing to help and teach us, and that's the Holy Spirit of God. Well, His connection with our prayer life is one of the biggest of our prayer secrets. Now, again, you'll hear the secret of prayer, and you've got to get your secret place, and you've got to find the will of God, and you've got to confess, and all those are right, but one of the things we miss out on is that God gives us a helper, an instructor when it comes to prayer that we oftentimes do not think of Him in that capacity. All right, so in this, I want to give you four things tonight where the Spirit can help in our infirmities. I'm sure there's a multitude of others, but here's four that have come to my mind when it comes to prayer. Well, number one, He prepares us. Right? Well, what do you mean by that? Well, we've already established that prayer is the audience with the King of kings and Lord of lords. And we went back to Esther and we talked about how Esther could not approach the king without him allowing that. And if she did, or anyone did, that they could be killed for doing that very thing. So we're invited into the audience of the King of Kings and he's invited us to that audience and he and the Holy Spirit has arranged everything to secure our admission and ensure we are welcome there. So oftentimes when we pray, let's be honest, we don't know exactly how to pray, we don't know what to pray, And oftentimes we approach him in a manner that honestly is a little bit, we won't call it boldness, we'll almost call it arrogance. And so how does he prepare us for prayer? Well, let me give you these two things. First of all, I want you to see there's a presumption that we have, and that presumption is we can just go however we want to, right? And so we must not rush into the presence any way we like, right? And don't raise your hand, but I want you to think about this. How much preparation do you make before you even pray? Right, I mean there has to be a preparation before we even pray. If you were going in to meet an executive or if you're going in for a job interview or you were going in to meet a dignitary and you would probably, I would hope, that there would be some type of rehearsal of what you would say, right? I mean, just, I want to, you know, rehearse how I approach them. I want my manners to be right. That'd be a good policy for folks today is work on the way their manners and the way they approach people, right? They talk to people. But here, you can't rush into the presence any way you like. See, we've so degraded God to bring Him down to our level, we think we can approach Him any way we want to. And so oftentimes, Brother Shane, the way sometimes... And by the way, let me say this. We in the South used to have a reputation of Southern hospitality, right? Used to. But I've noticed something, that Christians can be some of the rudest people I've ever met. I mean they just they think because they think it they ought to say it and sometimes they're abrasive in their language and sometimes they you know spout all things and you're just kind of scratching your head going I cannot believe that came out of their mouth right And some people, they think it's funny and sarcasm and all the rest of it. Well, uh, sometimes we approach God the same way, right? In other words, well, well, I don't really have time to pray. So what I'm just going to say a quick prayer. You know, when we pray over our food, do we really pray over our food or is it just something that we recite because we're supposed to say our blessing, right? So we must make ourselves ready to enter in. Again, we've used the illustration about going to someone's house and you would make sure hopefully your shoes are clean, your clothes are clean, whatever, before you got on their furniture. Well, if we deserve that much respect going to see each other, then why does God not deserve even more respect when we approach Him? So part of the preparation or the presumption that takes place is our mind and our attitude and our appearance must be right. You say, well, you say I'm preaching when I get up in the morning I need to go take a shower and put on a suit to stand before God. No, I'm talking about the cleanliness, right? The Bible talks about having clean hands. In other words, we've got to confess sin, we've got to get ourselves right, we've got to get our mind right, we've got to get our bodies right, we've got to get our attitude right. And the Bible over in the book of Psalms said that if I regard iniquity in my heart, God will not hear me. So there needs to be some confession and getting some things right before we ever really approach Him in making our petitions known. And we'll pray, Brother Matt, something like, well, if I've sinned, Lord, forgive me. Well, no, you're not getting it, right? You have sinned, I have sinned, so why not just confess it, get it out of the way, and now you can have fellowship with the Heavenly Father. And so the presumption all the time with us is, well, you know, and even now you see this with children and parents. I mean, you know, the way some kids talk to their parents, I would be having chiclets in my pocket, you know. Disrespect for teachers and disrespect for pastor and I can promise you this, you can get mad if you want to and your kids can disrespect you but they won't me. That got real quiet. Who are you? Well I'm just telling you. But see, what happens is we breed that disrespect and all of a sudden we become adults and we feel like we can approach God any way we want to. God, you owe me this. He owes us nothing. So the presumption is that we can come to Him any way we want to, but actually the practice and the pretext is that you and I must come before Him clean. You've got to be right with God. Then there's not only that, there's the preparation. that we should be clothed with humility. In other words, before I enter into that time of making my petitions known and praying for things, I need to come and understand that God is high and holy and I'm sinful and lowly. Right? I mean, there has to be an approach of humility when we go to God. So we must spend time in silence to adjust our hearts and prepare our spirit, and probably time in the Word of God. The Word of God speaks to us and shows us from His Word what we really are. Right? Because if you allow your mind and your intellect and what you think about yourself, I promise you this, the flesh and the devil is going to convince you you're not that bad. Our mind, our attitude have to be right. We gotta meditate a little bit. I ain't talking about some psycho super spiritualism. I'm talking about just spending some time in the Word of God and spending some time in silence and letting God speak to you before you speak to Him. Amen. So the Holy Spirit is the one that can do all this for us. See, when you study the Word of God, when you get that revelation from God, it's not your intellect, it's the Spirit of God showing you what He wants you to see out of that Bible. Well, how do you know that? Because He's the one that wrote it. So then if he lives inside of me, Brother Chad, if he's searching my heart, then when there's sin there, he's the one that points it out. Well, if I listen to him, right? So the preparation, you got it. See, nobody makes preparation for anything anymore. It's like used to, you know, you'd cook something, right, ladies, and you'd have to prepare things. You'd have to buy the groceries or, you know, go cut the head off the chicken, right, and pluck the chicken. get everything right you know it take hours to cook something else you know it's pop it in the microwave and try not to blow the house up right we want something quick and easy well that's why we want everything right remember we mentioned this when the internet first came dial up it takes seven hours for a page to load now if the thing doesn't load in eight seconds it's like my internet's broke right and so everything is now well you can't you can't do that with God Right? He wants to spend time with you and therefore there has to be the preparation and that is that the Holy Spirit prepares us to meet Him. Right? In other words, it's an introduction of the Spirit to the Father and it's through Him that we have access. So number one, He prepares us, but number two, He guides our initial approach. What do you mean by that? Well, think about this. The Holy Spirit is speaking for God. He speaks to our heart through his word. He speaks assurance God will hear us. When the devil's trying to convince you when you pray God's not listening. Well, that still small voice is telling you just keep praying, right? When you don't see results, let me ask you this. When you don't see results, what keeps you praying? Well, there's something inside of you saying keep praying, right? That still small voice says keep praying when the flesh of the devil's saying it's not working. So He prepares us by speaking for God. He speaks that we are invited into His presence. And He speaks through His Word. Listen, if you study the book of Hebrews and you realize that we can come boldly, well, we don't understand what that means. I mean, there's no way in our flesh that we understand how holy God is that we are invited in and so we think sometimes if the spirit didn't reveal that to us we think well I can just go in when I want to because I'm one of his kids well the thing we have to realize is that God speaks to us through the spirit of God through his word right and through that still small voice and let me say this the still small voice will never ever contradict the written word of God I know what the Bible said, but I feel something inside of me told me this. The Bible said, Brother Ford, we're to try the spirits. Part of trying the spirits is trying them against the Word of God and the Spirit of God will never contradict the Word of God. Never. Never. So he's speaking for God, but then he aids us in speaking to God. Write this scripture down somewhere, Galatians 4, verse 6. Now look what he says, he said, And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts. Well, who's that? Right. Crying Abba, Father. Well, what's he saying? He's saying, well, When you got saved, God put the Holy Spirit inside of you, which made you part of the family of God. And notice again what he said, Abba, Father. Well, they're two different words. Abba means Papa. Father is a respectful form. of acknowledging someone as your father, right? So he's showing the two sides that he is tender as a papa to a baby, but also that he has the strength, power, and deserves the reverence that a father would, right? And so in this, we need to understand he helps us speak to our heavenly Father. You don't know how to pray unless the Spirit tells you how to pray. And so understand this, so we put this value on people that are quote unquote able to pray. Don't, I mean it's like you hear somebody, man he can touch heaven when he prays, well you don't know if he is or not. So when that smallest child that just gets saved prays, He's telling us here that God has put His Spirit in him because that child, when he's four or five years old or three years old, he does not understand the respect of a full-grown. In other words, my 18-year-old, when my son's 18, he ought to see me differently as his father than he did when he was three. Agree? And so what he's saying is, you have this realm of this person of God, and so the smallest child, he doesn't understand everything about who God is, right? Or the youngest Christian gets saved saying, 50 years old, they just got born again. They've never been in a Bible preaching church. They don't have a clue who God really is. But God will hear and pray. Well, if you've been saved for 50 years, you ought to understand Him more as Father as much as Abba, right? See, some people still look at Him as that, you know, because here's the thing. Think about this. When a child is young, The baby, that baby can't do anything for itself, right? You got to feed the baby, change the baby, put the pacifier in there, roll them over once in a while, you know, all that good, they vomit all over their self, got to get that, I mean, well, then they grow up and then you, you know, you still, they walk a little bit and, woo, good job. But even at five years old, they can't take care of themselves. 10 years old, there's still some things they gotta learn. 18 years old, they should be able to do some stuff, right? Well, the relationship between that father and child is different at age three than it is at 18. At 18, you should be at the end stages of preparing your kids to leave your house and be a productive citizen instead of living in your basement until they're 70 years old playing video games. I mean, that's good preaching there. So the relationship's different. Well, when the kid's 18, he still ought to be able to go to his daddy and talk to him. He just talks to him different. He talks to him more intellectually, if you want to, or in a different way, right? And not asking, I hope. How many of you know when a kid starts talking, you're like, boy, that's the greatest thing in the world. And about a year later, you're going, huh. and you hear what's the word you hear the most why? why? why? why? why? why? why? you hear it all the time right well let me ask you this if Romans 828 is true I'm getting ready to help you now hold on are you approaching him as Abba Or are you approaching him as father when every time something happens in your life, you look up and ask what? I didn't say for any length of time, I shouldn't have to ask every time something happens, why? If I believe Romans 8, 28. Right? Think about that. You gnaw on that a little bit and see if that don't help you. Right? I mean, my kid's 18 years old. I won't ask him why all the time. It's like, you know, do it and here's the reason. And even if you don't understand the reason, you'll understand it one day. Because how many of you know this? When you were 16, 17, 18 years old, you thought your parents were the dumbest people in the world. And then when you got a little bit older, you figured out they was pretty smart. And then you try to tell your kids the same thing, and they look at you like, And there's something in the back of your mind going, well, maybe when they hit 25, 26, they're going, OK, well, they did know some stuff, right? We're no different spiritually. So as we mature and grow and the Spirit is teaching us how to pray and how to trust God, then we approach Him differently. We've been saved a while, or we should, right? Because I don't want my son, my daughter living in the basement when they're 50 years old saying, why, why, why, right? Well, spiritually, why are we doing it? So the thing is, and because you're sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son, so He's residing in us, and we should have, Brother Chad, we should have some of the revelation, and I'm not saying it's bad, listen to what I'm saying. If the Spirit of the Son of God lives in me, I should have some type of revelation of who God the Father really is. So number two, he guides our initial approach. Number three, he guides our desires. Well, you say, preacher, I think I know what I desire and what I need. Well, there's our problem, isn't it? Goes verse 26, says he helpeth our infirmities. Now, if you believe your Bible, and I know you do, That next phrase he said, for we know not what we should pray for as we ought. That's in there, right? But the spirit itself makes the intercession for us with groaning which cannot be uttered. So two things, if he guides our desires, he guides our desires that are expressed. In other words, here's what I mean. We express our desires through our petitions. In other words, we'll ask God, meet this need. Give us this day our daily bread. That's how he tells us to pray. Well, there's nothing wrong with that. That's how he tells us to pray. But how many understand this, that when you were more immature in your Christian walk, You didn't necessarily pray for the will of God, you prayed for your will and that it would be God's will that was your will. Or, Brother Matt, we'd pray for things that were to satisfy the flesh and make our life easier but was not necessarily the will of God. I'll raise my hand right there, right? Because there's nobody that I know that desires to have a tough life. So we must be taught to ask for the right things, right? You know, when you're a kid, right, you're praying for your dog, well, that's one thing. When you're an adult, you should be praying for the will of God. Well, a lot of times, we as adults, we pray for the things that, again, satisfy our flesh. So, what he's saying here is that we know not what we should pray for as we ought. He didn't say you didn't know what you should pray for as we ought. In other words, when my will lines up with God's will, right? Not His will lining up with mine, but when my will should line up with God's will, well, who teaches me the will of God? The Word of God and the Spirit of God. He teaches us to ask for God's will. You're not going to do that in your flesh. Because listen, you will not, and I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about people. You don't want, well the Bible said that there's no one that seeks after God. You just don't in your flesh. So there has to be an igniter that would push you or make you want to seek after God. It's not natural in our flesh. Our flesh is seek what satisfies me and so what happens is when we pray in the flesh we ask for the things that satisfy the flesh. When we're filled with the Spirit, we pray for the things that satisfy the Spirit, which is the will of God. Well, how do we know that? Because the Spirit teaches us, the Holy Spirit teaches us. So, first of all, it's the desires that we express, the things that we verbally pray for, the things in our mind that we're petitioning God. You know, we think of Miss Lana not being here. I know you've prayed for her, right? And you knew, you may not have known exactly how to pray, right? Just that she'd be healed or she'd get better or, you know, others, family members, you don't know exactly how to pray, but you have a desire to pray for the right thing. Well, isn't it amazing that sometimes when you're praying, God will change the way you pray or the way you say it. Instead of, I need to pray for this and I need to, Brother Shane, Miss Angie, or we'll say, I don't know what the need is, but they got a need. or the Spirit prompted me. I've done this, I'm sure you have. God prompted you to pray for somebody and you text them and say, listen, I prayed for you. And they'll say, thank you, I needed that. I don't want to go into detail, but I'm going through something. Right? So, there's a desire in most Christians that you want to pray for the will of God and you want to express in your prayer life that you want to be in the will of God, but you don't know exactly how to verbalize it. Right? I mean, let's be honest. We've all said some dumb things, right? I mean, fellas, if you've been married more than five minutes, you've said something, and about the time it got out here, you're going, come back, that was not how I meant that. It's not our fault, because, you know, ladies have filters on their ears, and no, I'm kidding. But sometimes we don't know exactly how to pray. And see, that's what I'm saying. We hear somebody pray, Brother Tim will say, man, he really knows how to pray. Well, he may know how to eloquently express some things but you don't know if he's really praying what's on his heart or if he's praying to impress so what what we're saying is that we have desires that we we express to God and and most of the time if we're right with God those desires are the right things right we want to see people saved we want to see the church grow we want to see you know missionaries see fruit for them and God to meet their needs but sometimes we don't know exactly what that means and so God has to the Holy Spirit has to intercede for us and clarify and God knows I understand that a lot of times he's clarifying in our heart what we're pray for But then there are desires that are inexpressible. In other words, sometimes those desires are too deep to express. Sometimes, how many times have you been here? You don't even know what you need. Right? Because look at verse 27. He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. I mean there's times I don't, I think I do, but there's times I don't know what I need. I mean there's been times, and you probably have had it too, whether, you know, depression or whatever you want to call it, you just know something's wrong, and you can't put your finger on it, you don't know exactly how to pray, you just know maybe it's a spiritual issue, maybe it's a physical issue, emotional issue, you don't know how to put your finger on exactly what's wrong, and so you just cry out, God help me. Well, the Holy Spirit knows what's going on, and the Holy Spirit knows how to pray expressly for the things you cannot express. He knows our heart better than we do, right? So when we cannot articulate what we need, I mean, I'm bad about that. In my mind, Brother Sean, I know exactly what I'm saying, And sometimes when I say it, my wife's like, I don't get it. And I'm thinking, Bo Dennis, your brain ought to be tied in with mine and we ought to be thinking on the same wavelength, but we're not, right? So it's not in the listener, it's in the speaker. See, there's no reason for me to preach to you if you don't understand what I'm saying. I might as well land a plane and sit down because we've got nothing accomplished. You put the cookies down on the bottom shelf where everybody can get to them and that helps everybody, right? And so we don't know exactly sometimes how to express our desires and so sometimes those desires are too deep. They're down in there. You can't get to them. You don't know what to pray and so the Spirit helps us there. And then number four. Our infirmity that he helps with is this, he will get glory for Christ. He will get glory for Christ. If verse 28 is right, right? If it's accurate, we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose. What's his purpose? To bring glory to himself, right? So if everything going on, right, I'll give you an example. Some of you have been praying for the election coming up. I think that's a good idea. But what are you praying? Oh, God, give us Donald Trump. We can't handle that woman, right? Well, you're praying the wrong thing. I agree with you, but that's not how we ought to be praying. You ever thought that what we got is what we deserve? Right? Not me preacher, I don't deserve. Well who are you to say? See what I'm saying? A lot of times we'll pray for things and we think we're praying for the right thing but we're not really praying for the right thing. I mean do you want to see revival? Sure I do preacher. Well what if it took having her as your president to have revival? Would you have it then? We ought to be praying for what brings God glory. So how does God get glory through us? Well, first of all, he gets it through the whole life of the believer. Or he should. The Holy Spirit will get glory for Jesus. He ain't worried about your glory. He's worried about his. Right? But Chad ain't worried about my ministry. He's worried about his. Right? The Holy Spirit will get glory for Jesus and so therefore that is the thing He is always working for. If He's working in our lives to make us more like Christ which brings Him glory then why are we upset when we have to go through trials to be more like Christ? Right? And then through the believer's whole life, he will secure that, right? That's why I'm here. I'm not here to make millions of dollars. I'm not here to make a name for myself. I'm not here to have a bunch of land or a bunch of vacation homes. I'm not here to my name in lights. I'm not here for that. You're not either, by the way. We're here so God gets glory through the however many years we're sucking up oxygen on this earth. So if the believer is completely surrendered to him, then it will be our desire for God to get glory out of our lives too. And then he gets glory through the prayer life. Well, how does he do that? Well, if we seek to pray triumphantly, the Bible said we know not what we should pray as we ought. Well, if I don't know what I'm to pray, Brother R.J., as I ought, and the Spirit intercedes for me that is to bring glory to God through my prayer life and so therefore we fail first at what to pray and then how to pray and the Holy Spirit can and will meet us in our infirmities so it tells me in verse 26 likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities well what are those infirmities you say well it's a thorn in the flesh it's my sickness Well, if it's in context with this scripture, this scripture said that our infirmities are that we know not what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself makes the intercession for us with groaning. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes the intercession for the saints according to the will of God. So it seems to me like, if I'm reading that in context, there's my infirmities. I don't know how to pray, I don't know what to pray for, and a lot of times I don't even know my own heart. God gives us the Holy Spirit for those infirmities if our prayer life stinks it's our fault because God has given us the instructor of prayer to reside in us to help us to pray even when we don't know I don't know what to pray for well won't you just get on the altar or in your prayer closet bow your head and tell God I don't know what to pray Holy Spirit help me to know what to pray for and how to pray and watch God start transforming your prayer life that you start knowing what you ought to pray for and how you ought to pray. Right? What we won't do is like everything, I can't. Brother Randy, I'm tired of hearing, I can't. I can't read through my Bible one time in a year. I just can't do it. I'm not a fast reader. I can't pray for 30 minutes a day. I can't lead somebody to Christ. See, here's the problem. What you're saying is the Bible's a lie. Because God said you could. God gives you the person of the Holy Spirit of God to accomplish those things that you can't accomplish in your flesh. And one of those is praying. You say, I can't pray like that. And God said, OK, I'll remove that excuse. Here's the Spirit of God. When you don't know how to pray, he'll intercede for you. What else you got? Well, I don't know how to study my Bible. Well, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll give you the Holy Spirit of God, who is the author of that book right there you're reading. I'll put him in your heart so that when it's time for you to understand the things you don't understand, he'll tell you what it is. What else you got? Well, I don't know how to lead somebody to Christ. Well, here's what he'll do. He'll say, I'll tell you what I'll do for you. I'll go out in front of you, and I'll go ahead and prepare the hearts for you. And so there, I've heard people say this, well, what if I say the wrong thing? You can't say the wrong thing. You think that God, see, salvation's not based on the words you say. You can say the dumbest thing in the world, and God can still save somebody. I was out one day knocking on doors to this guy, and We knocked on this lady's door. She's a Catholic. And we invited her to church. She said, well, she said, I'd come, but I'm a Catholic. He looked at her and said, well, you know, God saves Catholics, too. And I went, ma'am, thank you for your time. We walked away. He said, why did I say that? Why did I say that? I said, I don't know. But that wasn't going to stop God from saving her, right? We put so much emphasis on us, what we can and can't do, like God needs us to do it. He just needs a vessel, willing vessel, He can work through. So even in prayer, when you say, I can't pray like that, well, God didn't ask you to. He's telling you that He knows your infirmities and He can help with it. So if you want to be a prayer warrior, don't let the devil stop you from praying and even if it doesn't sound right to you then you got the Holy Spirit translating for you and saying now here's what he meant I have a lot of people tell me what I meant and they don't have a clue but when the Holy Spirit says here's what he meant he knows what he's talking about doesn't he so don't let your infirmities keep you from being a prayer warrior amen Let's close in prayer, and then if I can get some men to help me get all this stuff corralled up. Ladies, you can help too if you want to get some of that stuff. We'll handle the big stuff, and you can, unless you want to get the big stuff, we'll do that part. Amen, let's pray. Father, we thank you for the privilege we have to pray. Thank you for the Holy Spirit of God, and continue to teach us through your word, through your spirit. Father, we love you. What a privilege it is to call on the creator of the universe, Abba, Father, that we have that intimate, close relationship that we can have with you. So use us to pray and teach us how to pray and what we ought to pray for even when we don't know. Our hearts fail us, our minds and our mouth fail us, but we have a great intercessor. And we thank you for the privilege. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen.