Bible Question:
Ken hepting, Why does it have to benefit your mind? Then when does pray ... it is a mindless activity. Where does The Bible say "the Holy Spirit is praying through you"? |
Bible Answer: Ken hepting, Why does it have to benefit your mind? Then when does pray ... it is a mindless activity". ---------------------------------- A Spiritual thing to be sure with your mind not getting in the way. Haven't you ever attempted to pray with your mind/your understanding about a given matter and for some reason get bombarded with all sorts of stuff totally unrelated, some of it filth? That's Satan. That's how he is able to get to us. Of course he needs to be resisted but when praying in the Spirit he can't go there. He's not allowed. He also has no idea what'a being prayed to the Father since it is a Holy Ghost activity within you taking place. You could assume he doesn't know the language either. Satan can only act upon what we give him access to through our 5 senses. Speaking in tongues is not of them. "Where does The Bible say "the Holy Spirit is praying through you"? Contextually the The NT says so. --Jn 17, "that they be one as we are one". When Paul says I pray with the understanding and with the Spirit also. He speaking of tongues when he says this or else he can't mean Spirit because his mind and understanding would still be active. Isa.28.9-12 "Who is it he is trying to teach? To whom is he explaining his message? To children weaned from their milk, to those just taken from the breast? For it is: Do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule ; a little here, a little there." Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues God will speak to this people, to whom he said, "This is the resting place, let the weary rest"; and, "This is the place of repose"-- but they would not listen...NIV. Joel 2.28,29 'And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit 'in those days'. "In those days" is here, is now. Is it happening where you are? If not are you one of them who make excuses? Never forget that we who born again and have had our Pentecostal experience are conduits through which the Holy Spirit 'should' function. That's what Pentecost was all about. |