15 Bible Verses About Praying in the Spirit

In the same way, the Spirit also lends a hand in our weakness. What we should pray for, and how, we do not know. But the Spirit himself pleads on our behalf, with groans that no words carry.

Pray in the Spirit at every opportunity, with every kind of prayer and request. To that end, keep watch, never giving up, and make requests for all God’s holy people.

What follows, then? I will pray in the spirit, and I will pray with my mind as well. I will sing praise in the spirit, and I will sing praise with my mind as well.

And since you are children, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, and the Spirit cries, “Abba, Father!”

And God, who looks deep into hearts, knows what the Spirit intends, because the Spirit pleads for God’s holy people in line with what God wants.

When I pray in a tongue, it is my spirit that prays, while my mind bears no fruit.

But an hour is coming, and in fact it has already begun, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking people like these to worship him. God is spirit, and anyone who worships him has to do it in spirit and truth.”

On the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem I will pour out a spirit of grace and of prayer for mercy. They will look on me, the one they pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only son, and weep bitterly over him as for a firstborn son.

When they finished praying, the place where they had met shook, and every one of them was filled with the Holy Spirit, and they went on proclaiming God’s word fearlessly.

For it is we who are the circumcision: we who worship by the Spirit of God, who take pride in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in human credentials,

Otherwise, if you bless God in the spirit, how will someone who is in the outsider’s place say the “Amen” to your prayer of thanks? That person has no idea what you are saying.

What you received was not a spirit of slavery that would put you back under fear. You received the Spirit of adoption as children, and in the Spirit we call out, “Abba, Father!”

Since our life comes from the Spirit, let us also follow the Spirit’s lead in each step we take.

But you, dear friends, keep building yourselves up on your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselves within God’s love, while you look forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that brings eternal life.