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Originally Posted by Barb
But is praying in the Spirit always speaking with tongues?!
I speak almost every time I pray, but have also prayed in earnest without speaking with tongues...prayed for things and about situations I knew nothing about at the time, wondering why I was going there in prayer.
Is this not praying in the Spirit as well, and do we (Pentecostals of every stripe) short change the work of the Holy Ghost to think that praying in the Spirit is always in an unknown language?!
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My thought is that praying in the Spirit is the definition given by the Holy Spirit to praying in an unknown tongue.
2: For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit
in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
1 Cor. 14:2
14: For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my
spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
1 Cor. 14:14
15: What is it then? I will
pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing
with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
16: Else when thou shalt bless with
the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
17: For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
18: I thank my God, I
speak with tongues more than ye all:
1 Cor. 14:15-18
Praying with the Spirit is clearly distinct from praying in the understanding according to Paul.
But Im open. Give me scripture where someone in the New Testament was praying in the understanding but yet it was called "praying in the Spirit".
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