32 | He Intercedes

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All right, everyone,

welcome back to, I Can't.

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He Can.

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I'm Sarai and I'm your host.

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This is episode 32.

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Episode 32.

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And while it's not a

video episode, I'm sorry.

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I said I would try my best to make

all of these podcast episodes video.

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But there has been a lot going on,

and quite frankly, I've always told

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you guys that I wanna do this right.

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I don't want to just put

out words to put out words.

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And the same thing goes for video.

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If I am not up for a video, I'm

not up for the full on podcast

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experience that I do love.

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'cause I do like actually editing

and doing all these videos and such.

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But if I'm not up for it, I'm not

gonna give you guys something that's

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halfway and I really don't think that.

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I owe it to Jesus and to God to do

the absolute best job that I can for

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my podcast, because that is the only

way that I'm going to glorify him.

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That is the only way, and

that is my only goal really.

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So today's episode,

it's going to be brief.

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Quick life update, What I have been

up to since we have been doing the

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Sound Mind series, but I am going to

tie it all back into what inspired

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me for this episode, and that was

Sunday service today at my new church.

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And it is something very simple,

very brief, like I said, but.

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It packs a punch, and it is

so important because it's

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something that we all look over.

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We don't even realize the importance and

the significance of this detail, but I

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was reminded of it and I really, really

understood it because I know I have also

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experienced it in these past few weeks.

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So

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What has been going on, I am exhausted.

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I am exhausted.

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my body's just fighting itself

right now, you guys, and I know I

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mentioned it briefly and one of the

other episodes that I do have ms.

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Multiple Sclerosis, and while I put

that that identity that I had made for

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myself in 2021 when I was diagnosed,

even though I did put that to bed and

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I just kind of dealt with it and it got

much better, it was much, much better.

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Um, I since had a relapse of the

ms, so it has been kicking my

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butt this week, but you know what?

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It's just, it's really hard.

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It's really hard to sometimes give God the

glory when you are going through things.

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But the more, the more that I continue

and push forward feeling how I feel

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and not complaining, I'm really

just kind of sucking it up really.

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The more I do that, the more

I see Jesus in everything.

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And let me explain what I mean.

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So I had some dizzy spells,

I guess you can say.

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turns out I relapse one in for some

steroids, three day doses of that.

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And now that that is gone, I.

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Guess what I'm feeling are the

remnants of the lesions that

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did some damage in my brain.

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Sounds much worse saying

it than what it is really.

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I promise you I am okay.

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but nonetheless, what I do feel

is, I guess, the remnants of

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whatever damage it did, right?

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So long story short.

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I feel like I'm swimming all the time.

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I feel, I feel funny.

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I just, I don't feel like

myself and I'm very, very tired.

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Very tired, but I see people around me.

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That are dealing with

so many other things.

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Some people aren't sick, but some

people have lost their fathers.

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Some people have lost

other family members.

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Some people are sick and are dealing

with possibly even worse things

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like chemotherapy and cancer.

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And my medication is going to be on the

23rd and you know, praise the Lord that

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I live in a country that has the means to

provide the medication that I need so I

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could soak In my illness, Or I can rejoice

in the fact that God blessed me by living

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in a country where I can get what I need.

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So that's one thing to

be happy about, right?

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The other thing to be happy about is that.

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He is always there, even when

we don't feel like he is.

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He is always there and he may not show

himself to us, but he is working in the

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lives of other people that are around us.

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And other people that deal with us.

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So for example, my doctors, my nurse,

oh my gosh, she was the sweetest

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nurse, and she's going to continue

being my nurse through the infusions.

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So praise the Lord for that because

who wants to deal with a person who's

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hard to deal with when you're already

dealing with something like that, right?

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So there's so many things

to be grateful for.

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So many, um, despite feeling however,

I may feel how tired I may feel.

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You just gotta keep doing the

things that you have to do.

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No one is going to do them for you.

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No one is going to resolve problems for

you, and that's, that's the reality.

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It's you and God and you

have to resolve it with God.

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But what you have to do is

you have to make a move.

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You need to have a plan.

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You have to actually execute what

it is that God wants you to do.

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For me, I had to be sure that

I was on top of my doctors.

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My neurologist, my everything

to get my medications.

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I had to advocate for

myself, push for myself.

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Did they also do it for me?

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A hundred percent.

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And they are outstanding.

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And they are amazing.

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And I am so grateful.

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But prayers, prayer.

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And God hears you and he loves you, But.

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I am pretty sure that God

also wants us to act on things

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and not just sit on our butt.

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He is giving us that

strength to continue, right?

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Because I certainly feel like

he's giving me strength to do

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things and to cook for my kids.

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Like today I just spent, I dunno how

many hours meal prepping for them.

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But he gave me that strength.

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And what, how am I gonna pay him back?

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I'm going to pay him back by doing

this podcast, whether audio or video.

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I'm doing this podcast and I'm

letting you know, letting whoever

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is listening know that there is

glory, and there is victory in Jesus.

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because he gives us a strength

not to just sit back and relax.

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He gives us a strength so we

can put action and put our foot

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forward and continue to walk.

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That's why he gives us strength.

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It's not just so we can watch him work.

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No.

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Otherwise, he would've worked already.

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If that was the case, he would've

worked already and wouldn't even

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require us to ask for anything.

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No, he wants action from us too.

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And that's our faith.

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And our faith needs to have action.

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So that's where I'm at with

my, with my life right now.

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Um, I am praying that next week I will

be able to have my ladies' Bible study

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and that, I will be starting my infusions

on the 23rd, which is next Monday.

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I'm actually looking forward

to it because I don't wanna

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feel like I'm swimming anymore.

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I hope that that brings me some

normalcy, but even if it doesn't,

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even if it doesn't, and this is what's

left over, I will continue to adjust.

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And I will continue to rejoice

because whatever this is, is

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what God has had planned for me.

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And he knew that it was for me because

he knew that I would take it and run

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with it and make something out of this.

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So that is why I'm here.

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And so with that said,

I want to share the.

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Biggest and most important

message that I took from my

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pastor today at Sunday Service.

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right now we are going

through Romans eight and.

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It is so good.

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It is so good.

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So.

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As many amazing messages

and notes that I took.

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The most important thing that really

stood out to me today was Romans

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chapter eight, verse 26 through 27.

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And before I read that, because of

everything that I just told you guys

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right now regarding my little update

and my health and all that stuff,

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this is why it really resonated These

verses speak volumes about where

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sometimes we get strength from and how

God and the Holy Spirit works through

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us when we don't even realize it.

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Romans chapter eight, verse 26

through 27, and it says, likewise, the

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spirit also helps in our weaknesses.

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For, we do not know what we should

pray for as we ought, but the Spirit

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himself makes intercession for us with

groanings, which cannot be uttered.

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Now, he who searches the hearts knows what

the mind of the spirit is because he makes

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intercession for the saints according to

the will of God Verse 26 says, likewise,

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the spirit also helps in our weakness,

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So what were we given?

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After the cross, after Jesus's

sacrifice, we were given the Holy Spirit.

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And it is saying here in verse 26 that

the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses.

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And how am I feeling lately?

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Yeah, this is definitely

one of my weaknesses.

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What I'm going through right now.

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Verse 26 continues for, we do not know

what we should pray for as we ought.

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sometimes we don't know what we need to

even be praying for, and that's true.

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'cause me, for example,

what am I going to pray for?

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Obviously people would say, oh,

you should pray for healing.

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Of course, I pray for healing.

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Yes, but.

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Is God always going to heal someone?

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No, not always.

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So what are other things

that I could be praying for?

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God, please be with these doctors.

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God please this medication.

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God, please let me have, you

know, the steroids that I

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need, et cetera, et cetera.

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All of these things.

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Sometimes we, we don't think beyond

things that we can be praying for.

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Again, it says for we do not know what

we should pray for as we ought, but the

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spirit himself makes intercession for us

with groanings which cannot be uttered.

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So this in us sometimes intercedes

makes intercessions intercedes for us.

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And groans for us.

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Why?

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Because he already knows us,

God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, they

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already know what is inside us.

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So sometimes they intercede for us

and they pray things for us that

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we don't even know we need, that

we didn't even think we would say.

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But yet, here it is,

and intercedes for us.

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Verse 27.

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Now, he who searches the hearts

knows, of course, he meaning

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the Holy Spirit, Jesus God.

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Now he who searches the hearts

knows what the mind of the spirit is

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because he makes intercession for the

saints according to the will of God.

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It was just absolutely beautiful.

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I am not sure if you guys realize that,

but sometimes our words aren't our words.

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Sometimes the spirit intercedes for us

because he has to get the point across.

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And we were like, wow.

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I didn't even feel like I had the

right words, and yet I found them

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and I prayed them and I said it.

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And the same thing goes for our strength.

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We don't know how we got through

our darkest days sometimes.

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We really don't.

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Yet here we are.

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You are listening, and that's

because we get strength from God.

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We get strength from the Lord.

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So the spirit intercedes for us.

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It protects us.

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It gives us the words that we

need sometimes that we can't

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even begin to conjure up.

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And in our weakness, he's there.

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He is always there in our weakness

because like my pastor said,

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God is there when we're strong.

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Yes, He is there even

more in our weakness.

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And this verse right here

is also proof of that.

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He intercedes.

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He gives us prayer.

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He gives us strength, but

most importantly, it gives

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us the endurance to continue.

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Why?

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we have something to look forward

to, and that is being in the presence

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of God and in the presence of Jesus.

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He knows that we are weak.

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He knows that we are weak, and he

knows that we are going to need

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something as someone to remind us

constantly and to help us in our

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weakness when we can't do it alone.

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Everything is just so perfectly

thought out and it's beautiful.

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There is no one else who could have

done any of that, but Keep this verse

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for yourself as a reminder, Romans

chapter eight, verse 26 through 27.

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He gives us what we need when

we don't know how to find it.

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So thank you so much for

listening and my friends.

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I pray that you guys have an amazing

and blessed week, and I will see you

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guys here back next week for another

episode of I Can, he Can Take Care.