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Precisely so, dear sister in Christ, precisely so!

Only God searches the hearts and minds, only He sees all that there is, all at once - every where and every when - only He knows objective truth.

No mere creature has this power. No mere creature knows the desires of the heart much less can articulate them.

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should 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

No man can hide from God the intentions of his heart. If he holds another creature - whether physical, spiritual, phenomenal or graven - dearer than God, then he is an idolator and his prayers, an abomination.

Romans 1:

22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

A pastor I was listening to on tape the other night (he is now with the Lord) was talking about prayer...I am trying to remember exactly what he said right now...but he included your quote below, and hearing those words the other night really brought comfort. Oh, he was talking about when he prays, he catches himself giving driving directions to God about how he (the pastor) had worked a particular problem out, and if God would just do this, and then that, it would all be taken care of. Well, God 'didn't answer his prayer' the way he'd asked. And when a better result occurred because naturally God took His own approach, the Pastor was like, 'wow, that was really clever, I hadn't even thought of that."

This is truly most awesome...just to meditate on this for awhile:

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should 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

Thanks for posting this for me to read again.

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.

Amen! ONLY God searches hearts and knows the will of God - all of it. How can anyone possibly imagine going to a created being, even one who may be in heaven with God, for intercession when we have THE Holy Spirit to do that??? Because He is eternal, omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent, NO ONE can outdo Him.

I just wish some would understand that discussions like this are not intended to mock or deride their dearly held beliefs but to show a more excellent way. A way that God has revealed to us through His sacred word. Nothing man thinks up, dreams about or imagines can be better.

I hope y'all have a blessed Christmas!