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Rom. 8:26-30

How many of us are confident that we can pray as we ought?  Some people may think that they can, but St. Paul, writing to the Christians at Rome in the 1^st Century says that we cannot pray as we ought, but that the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness, and “intercedes with sighs too deep for words.” (Rom. 8:26)  As I think and pray about it I tend to agree that when it comes right down to it Paul is right.  We tend to follow patterns from the Prayer Book, or from childhood, or from some other source.  Most of us don’t really pray as we ought. Read More