What do we do when we pray for healing and healing does not come? In Romans 8, Paul says all creation groans, and so do the people who have the Spirit. Pastor Marlee Page shares her own waiting-room stories and shows that the Spirit prays with us in wordless groans. Paul’s thorn in 2 Corinthians 12 reveals grace given in place of an answer, and nothing in all creation can separate us from God’s love. When we cannot understand God’s activity, we can trust His presence and pray, Holy Spirit, meet me here.

Jesus met His frightened disciples behind locked doors, breathed on them, and sent them out. The same Holy Spirit gives gifts to every believer for the common good, even in a messy church like Corinth. Pastor Dave invites us to put the battery back in: stay open and discerning, pray for boldness like the early church, and bring our wounds to the One whose wounds heal us. Ordinary, wounded people become rivers of life flowing into the dead places of our town. Holy Spirit, make me available.

Does God still speak? Pastor Dave Page says yes, and He speaks to wounded, ordinary people like us. From Jesus promising the Spirit would guide His frightened disciples, to Elijah’s gentle whisper in the cave and the unlikely church at Antioch, Scripture shows God drawing near in our weakest places. Four guardrails help us test what we hear: Scripture, the character of Jesus, the fruit of the Spirit, and Christian community. Listening prayer begins with Samuel’s words: Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.