THE EXCELLING OF PROPHESYING Building Up The Church More 1 Cor. 14:15 What then ? I pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the mind; I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing also with the mind. This implies that the apostle encouraged the receivers of his letter to pray not only in an unknown tongue but also with clear and understandable words. This does not mean to pray with mind only and not at all with the spirit. In Ephesians 6:18 the apostle charged us to pray at every time in spirit. Prayer is worship, which should be in spirit (John 4:24). When we pray with the spirit, not in an unknown tongue but in understandable words, our mind is automatically used to interpret and express the thought of the spirit. What the apostle meant here is that in the church meeting, for the profit of all the attendants, we should with our mind in intelligible words ( v. 19) to express the burden in our spirit. In a church meeting our prayer not only should be heard by the Lord for His answer but also should be intelligible to all the attendants for their profit. For this purpose we should learn to use our mind in public prayer just as we use our spirit, training our mind to cooperate with our spirit, even to be one with our spirit, that the spirit may become the spirit of our mind ( Eph. 4:23).
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