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Rom.8:26 In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered. 8:27 He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

When one subject righteousness it groans under the weight of the flesh and its lust. Here God allows his new creation, sinless, and accounted righteous by the life of his Son indwelling them to groan for the freedom of life eternal.

Psalms 38:8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

John 11:33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled.

The very creation groans unwittingly for the same freedom only God can provide. This operation is the temple the working of the high priest dealing with living sacrifice on earth under subjection to futility by their own flesh. Why would they not know at times the groaning and trials they are going through?

Rom.9:19 You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?" 9:20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"{Isaiah 29:16; 45:9} 9:21 Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor? 9:22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
9:23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory.

They are living vessels purchased for God's good pleasure. Moreover, they are predestine to be the temple of God, Christ Jesus, (as one the head and the body members stem from one) for training in setting creation free. But presently what that position is has not been revealed to anyone accept whom the Father wishes to unveil his plan.

1 John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

What at times seem like strange and even bizarre trials our Father allows in this tent, as a vessel, various things can occur or happen in God's anointed that only the Spirit of God knows, and can overcome, but still the child of God needs comfort that only the Spirit of God can reassure them to stay the course.

1 Corinthians 3:22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours.

2 Corinthians 1:9 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.

2 Corinthians 4:10 always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

This course may be so unlike our fleshly mind could have concluded that our very flesh, thoughts, and feeling reject them as Peter did when ask to eat unclean things forbidden by the laws of God. But there is a powerful lesson awaiting us, we are the vessel, not the master, we cannot answer back to our maker.

Acts 11:8 But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.' 11:9 But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, don't you call unclean.'

1John 3:5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin. 3:6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

We must wait upon the Spirit, giving us hope, faith, and love. We may at times be drained of all three thinking how worthless and weak we are that nothing good dwells in us. But that is not how God sees us, we are a precious living stone being cut not by human hands, but God's perfect Word (Christ) that endures forever. When the storm (flesh) obeys the Word of God, peace will come it will control our heart and mind, and we will know the truth, what truth?

John 8:32 You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."{Psalm 119:45}

The very truth the creation is yet to learn, and what is that? That all things happen by the power of God, nothing exist without God's power sustaining life, the source of all life is good, he is love, he is beautiful in all his ways. Let us remember we taste both life and death in our vessel, we are surrounded with the woes of mankind, from within and from without. The death from corruption is the fertilizer life grows in, and that life is perfect, and perfectly directed in each child of God, although, they many not see it at present it testifies as our truth, what truth? God loves us, not in word only, but in every action of his Spirit.

1 John 5:6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

1 John 3:20 because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Revelation 12:11 They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.

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