Streams in the Desert October 31 Daily Devotional

Likewise also the Spirit helpeth our infirmities; for we know not
what to pray for as we ought; but the Spirit itself maketh
intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And 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 (Romans 8.26,27).
This is the deep mystery of prayer. This is the delicate divine
mechanism which words cannot interpret and which theology cannot explain, but which the humblest believer knows even when he does not understand.
Oh, the burdens that we love to bear and cannot understand! Oh, the inarticulate out-reachings of our hearts for things we cannot
comprehend! And yet we know they are an echo from the throne and a
whisper from the heart of God. It is often a groan rather than a
song, a burden rather than a buoyant wing. But it is a blessed
burden, and it is a groan whose undertone is praise and unutterable joy. It is "a groaning which cannot be uttered." We could not
ourselves express it always, and sometimes we do not understand any more than that God is praying in us, for something that needs His
touch and that He understands.
And so we can just pour out the fullness of our heart, the burden
of our spirit the sorrow that crushes us, and know that He hears,
He loves, He understand, He receives; and He separates from our prayer all that is imperfect ignorant and wrong, and presents the
rest, with the incense of the great High Priest, before the throne
on high; and our prayer is heard, accepted and in His name. --A. B. Simpson.
It is not necessary to be always speaking to God or always
hearing from God, to have communion with Him; there is an
inarticulate fellowship more sweet than words. The little child can sit all day long beside its busy mother and, although few words are spoken on either side, and both are busy, the one at his absorbing play, the other at her engrossing work, yet both are in perfect
fellowship. He knows that she is there, and she know that he is a right So the saint and the Saviour can go on for hours in the
silent fellowship of love, and he be busy about the most common

things, and yet conscious that every little thing he does is
touched with the complexion of His presence, and the sense of His approval and blessing.
And then, when pressed with burdens and trouble too complicated to put into words and too mysterious to tell or understand, how sweet
It is to fall back into His blessed arms, and just sob out
the sorrow that we cannot speak! --Selected