Prayer
When we don’t know what to pray
Pastor Tom
November 2, 2008
Romans 8:26–27
What do we do when we don’t know God’s will or what to pray?
God has revealed a lot of His will to us. Love your neighbor as yourself. Flee sexuality immorality. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. Speak the truth in love. But in many other situations, like the ones I just talked about, His will is not clear.
Some people claim you can discover God’s will on everything if your faith is strong enough or if you walk close enough to God. But that position does not hold water in the Bible or real life. The human condition imposes upon us all sorts of weaknesses. We face some physical challenges. We suffer from lack of power. We have disabilities and inabilities. We have limitations to our knowledge. We don’t know what other people think. We don’t know God’s specific will in certain situations. We can’t possibly understand all that He’s up to. We live in a fallen world. We ourselves are stained with the sinful nature which we must struggle against in seeking God’s will. We face the opposition of the spiritual forces of evil who do not want God’s will to become known or carried out. All these add up to large obstacles in actually discovering God’s will. So we might know the door is open to pray. We have learned a bit more of how to pray over the last few weeks. But what happens when we don’t know what to pray?
