This Week's Worship

Bring Our Pain to God

Theme

What is the central meaning of Pentecost? Why did the Holy Spirit come to us, and what is His role?

The incarnation of Jesus Christ is the greatest turning point in the history of Scripture. At the center of that turning point is the coming of the Holy Spirit. In other words, where and how the Holy Spirit works is one of the key differences between the Old and New Testaments.

The sending of the Holy Spirit is God’s grace to humanity — His desire to know our suffering, heal us, and draw near to us.

Romans 8:15, 26-27

8:15

15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba,Father.

26-27

“Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 

Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.”