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(32) Prayer - is spiritual
breathing; in praying we breathe by the Holy Spirit:
"praying in the Holy Spirit" (Jude 1, 20). And so,
all Church prayers - are the breath of the Holy
Spirit, as if spiritual air and at same time light,
a spiritual fire, spiritual food and spiritual
clothing.
(33) In prayers and Church songs,
throughout their entire field, there moves the
Spirit of truth. Everything contradictory and
blasphemous which comes into the head from without -
is from the devil, the father of lies, the
slanderer; prayers and chants - are the breath of
the Holy Spirit.
(34) We have felt in our heart
during prayer or during the reading of God's word
and other books containing sacred matter (eve n at
times lay books also - of a worthy nature, where,
for example, is described some kind of event,
showing the work of God's Providence over people),
or in pious talks - a still small voice, so that
along your body as if electricity has passed. This
is the Lord visiting us. "A still small voice" (I
Kings 19, 12).
(35)
"Believest thou not that
I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?" (John
14, 9-10). Don't you know that during prayer the
Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are in you and
you in Them?
(36) Prayer is the breath of the
soul as air is the natural breath of the body. We
breathe by the Holy Spirit. You cannot say a single
word of prayer from your whole heart without the
Holy Spirit. In praying mouth to mouth you converse
with the Lord, and if you have your spiritual mouth
opened by faith and love, you as it were breathe in
from Him at the same time the spiritual blessings
requested through the Holy Spirit.
(37) When you stand up to pray
burdened by many sins and possessed by despair,
begin to pray with hope, with a burning spirit,
remember then that the Spirit of God Himself helps
us in our infirmities, "making intercession for us
with groanings which cannot be uttered." When you
will have remembered with faith about this action
within us of God's Spirit, then tears of tender
emotion will flow from your eyes and you will come
to feel peace in your heart, a sweetness,
justification and joy in the Holy Spirit, you will
cry out with words of the heart: Abba, Father
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