Rogation Tuesday
Posted on May 27, 2025 by under
Scripture: Romans 8:24-28 (NKJV)
8:24 For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.
26 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. 27 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.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
Devotion
“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.”
As we continue in these Rogation days of asking, one may well ask, “what should I be praying for?” Our text today invites us to the humble, honest acknowledgment of the fact that “we do not know what we should pray for as we ought.” And in that recognition it can be tempting not to pray, for fear that our prayers will be wrong and not heard by God. The Word of God, however, points us very much the other direction. Go ahead and pray! Your prayers have an ‘editor,’ so to speak. The Holy Spirit Himself intercedes for us. He takes our flawed and imperfect prayers, and intercedes for us with His divinely perfect “groanings.”
Like us, the disciples also wanted to know how to pray rightly. When they asked the Lord to teach them how, He gave them the Lord’s Prayer. So we offer our prayers boldly and with confidence, and then we may rejoice to speak the Lord’s Prayer in summary of all, rejoicing that, as those redeemed by the shed blood of Christ, our prayers will be heard.
Collect: Grant, we beseech Thee, O almighty God, that we, who in our affliction put our trust in Thy mercy, may ever be defended by Thy protection against all adversity; through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Collect for Rogate Sunday
O God, from Whom all good things do come: Grant to us Thy humble servants, that by Thy holy inspiration we may think those things that be right and by Thy merciful guiding may perform the same; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
