I love going to church and worshipping Jesus. I love seeing my friends and teaching my conversational English class on Sunday mornings.
Each Sunday in my class, we end with me reading from the bible in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Then I usually play a worship song with laptop connected via usb port to the TV in the room. The last thing is prayer time. Each week I pray in Portuguese and Spanish as well as English. I always ask my friends from Brazil and Spanish speaking countries if my Portuguese and Spanish are okay. They always say yes, but perhaps they are being nice. 🙂
This leads to my problem each Sunday. Having three languages floating around in my brain and having just used all three sometimes causes a little problem. My American friends talk with me and it sometimes I am slow to speak because I am trying to come back to English only. It is not always easy to transition between languages.
A language none of us needs to worry about speaking or understanding is God’s language. He knows all languages. Even better for us, when we pray, we do not need to worry about the right words, saying everything perfectly, or at times being able to say anything at all. Romans 8:26-27 says:
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
The Holy Spirit is basically our translator as we pray Even if all we can do is ask for help and say ugh help me. God is not impressed by flowery language. He looks at our heart attitude.
I might be a bit crazy but have also been thinking about learning some Ukrainian since I interact with Ukrainians so much. lol
Thank you for reading. God Bless.
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