Spirit of Prayer

The Holy Spirit is sometimes referred to as the third person of the Triune God. This does not mean that He is the least of the Trinity, but because He is the last to be revealed to us in the Scriptures. According to A.W. Tozier, "The Holy Spirit is of the Father and the Son: not made not created, nor begotten, but proceeding." The Nicene Creed also pays tribute to the Holy Spirit as being Himself God and equal to the Father and the Son:
I believe in the Holy Spirit
The Lord and given of Life,
Which proceedeth from the Father and the Son,
Who with the Father and Son together
Is worshipped and glorified.

First of all, we must accept and believe that God's Spirit is real, a Divine Reality, and that the Holy Spirit is in us. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit. I Cor 3:16 "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?"

Secondly, the Spirit lives within us to reveal Christ in His love and power; to help us recognize sin and have victory over it; to teach us to be a witness and to teach us to pray. Zech. 12:10 calls Him the "Spirit of grace and of supplication."
Romans 8:26,27 it is written that "we know not what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us." The way He does this is "with groanings, which cannot be uttered." Yearnings too deep for words. And then in verse 27 it tells us that God knows what is the mind of the Spirit--and this wordless prayer from our hearts to the Spirit is in accordance with God's will.

In every prayer we utter, the Holy Triune God takes part--the Father who hears, the Son who intercedes before the Father for us, and in whose name we pray; and the Spirit who dwells within us, and who prays for us, presenting our prayers to the Father according to His will.

From the heart of CC
Andrew Murray, The Prayer Life. Zondervan Publishing Co.
Verses from The New Scofield Reference Bible