Catechesis

Westminster Larger Catechism

Question 182

How doth the Spirit help us to pray?

Scripture

  1. Romans 8:26–27 [1]
    Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. (ESV)
  2. Psalm 10:17 [1]
    O LORD, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear (ESV)
  3. Zechariah 12:10 [1]
    Him Whom They Have Pierced “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. (ESV)