1 John 5:14-15 says, “And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
See Jeremiah 31:31-34 and Luke 22:14-23. This is language first used in Jeremiah's promise of rescue and renewal of the exiled people of God...
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself...
A theology of lament begins with a foundational understanding of the suffering of the Godhead before it is about my suffering; of the grief...