Praying always in the spirit

Praying always in the spirit

Never in the flesh or mind!

If this secret we will practise

God’s full presence we will find.

Praying always in the spirit

Is the secret we are told!

In the spirit

God to contact

Is the secret we must hold!

Praying always in the spirit

Never by our human thought!

Fellowship with God the Spirit

Only thus to us is brought.

Praying always in the spirit

Thus expressing God’s desire;

Staying with the Lord in spirit

We’ll be wholly set afire.

Praying always in the spirit

Even groaning from within

Thus we utter God’s intention

By the Spirit’s discipline.

Praying always in the spirit

In the holiest place divine;

It is only in the spirit

God and we in oneness twine.

Praying always in the spirit

’Tis the only way of prayer;

All the fulness of the Godhead

By this secret we may share.