Praying in the Holy Ghost

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We do this when in praying we are conscious of His presence, and conscious, too, that we are asking according to His will. Even if our understandings cannot fully unfold to us what we need, we may be thus conscious of desires according to His mind, according to Rom. 8:2626Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. (Romans 8:26). Nothing short of this is " praying in the Holy Ghost." But I do not say this to weaken the liberty we have to bring all our desires to God in prayer; it may be true prayer still. However foolish our requests may be, still let us in childlike confidence bring them to God. He will grant them if it would be good for us, and will teach us better if they are foolish and wrong. He bids us make all our requests known to Him; and we should ourselves like our children to come and tell us all their wishes, leaving us to act as we thought right about them. But prayer in the Holy Ghost is our privilege; and I need not say the most blessed when in full understanding.