Ray NoahFrom Your Lips to God’s Ears – Ray Noah https://raynoah.com Faith In Motion Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:15:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 1205010 From Your Lips to God’s Ears https://raynoah.com/2020/05/09/from-your-lips-to-gods-ears-1/ https://raynoah.com/2020/05/09/from-your-lips-to-gods-ears-1/#respond Sat, 09 May 2020 13:29:00 +0000 Ray Noah http://raynoah.com/?p=93072 Holy Spirit, Make Sense of Our Senseless Prayers

Do you ever feel inadequate to come before a holy God in prayer? Have you witnessed prayer warriors interceding with such ease that it intimidates you because you could certainly never pray like that? Do you ever run out of words when you pray? When it comes to prayer, do you feel as Ringo Star once sang, “it don’t come easy.” Guess what! That’s okay! When I don’t know how to pray or what to pray or feel so incredibly inadequate to pray, the Holy Spirit dwelling within me does the praying for me. He takes my inarticulate, jumbled thoughts and raises them to the Father above, making perfect sense of the things that are running through my mind and burdening my heart. My prayers don’t have to be smooth, they don’t have to have perfect grammatical structure, they don’t even have to make sense. They just need to come from a heart that is crying out for the Father’s best in my life, and the indwelling Spirit does the rest.

“ The moment we get tired in our journey, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. The Spirit does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our what in our hearts, on our minds, and he keeps us present before God. That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.

—ROMANS 8:26-28

A Simple Prayer for Praying More Powerfully:

God, through the indwelling presence of your Holy Spirit, take my inarticulate thoughts, my unclear mind, my annoying insecurities about being good enough in prayer, perfect them and bring them near to your heart. Turn my feeble efforts to pray into mountain moving prayers. As I offer what’s in my heart to you, I will thank you in advance for turning them into that which glorifies you. Amen.
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