Romans 8:26
The Holy Spirit Helps Us in Our Weaknesses
26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
2 Corinthians 12:5-10
For When I Am Weak I Am Strong
5 I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. 6 Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, 7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
The Holy Spirit helps us in our weaknesses...For example, we don't know what God wants us to pray for...But the Holy Spirit prays for us in our weaknesses and those things we cannot understand and those things we cannot expressed in our own words...God delights in helping us...Our personal weaknesses give us the opportunity to see God's strengths...
Author Philip Yancey writes about this and says, “Paul says that Spirit lives inside us, detecting needs we cannot articulate and expressing them in a language we cannot comprehend...When we don’t know what to pray, He fills in the blanks...Evidently, it is our very helplessness that God, too, delights in...Our weakness gives opportunity for His strength.”...
God's power is seen in people's weaknesses, hardships, and difficulties...God's grace is sufficient for all things, for in His power things are made perfect from weakness...