Well, how do we pray in the spirit?

And can we accidentally pray out of the spirit?

That's a good question from a listener to the podcast named Mary.

Pastor John T. Wrights, thank you for your lab study through Ephesians.

Let's look at the book of videos.

It has been wonderfully fruitful in my life.

Keep up the great work.

My question is whether you can teach me to pray in the spirit, Paul and Jude call us

to this.

So what does this look like?

And can you distinguish what it looks like to pray in the spirit from what it would mean

to pray out of the spirit?

Pastor John, what would you say to Mary?

Let's begin by reminding ourselves that prayer is not the only thing that Christians are

called upon to do in the spirit or by the spirit.

And just by the way, that phrase and penuma tea in the Bible in the spirit is sometimes

translated by the spirit, sometimes in the spirit.

I don't think Paul in his mind would make that distinction.

For example, Galatians 5, 16, walk in the spirit, Romans 8, 13, put to death the deeds of the

body in the spirit.

First Corinthians 12, 3, confess Jesus is Lord in the spirit.

Olympians 3, 3, worship in the spirit.

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