Spirit and Understanding Prayer

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, this verse is an invitation to fuse the living flame of awareness with the disciplined thought that names the object sought. 'Pray with the Spirit' means enter a state of inner listening, where feeling and certainty are one. 'Pray with the understanding' means affirm in the mind that what you desire is already true in God, not as a distant request but as a present fact in your inner life. When you align these two activities, you are not splitting your self but awakening the two wings of consciousness that carry your petition into manifestation. The I AM within you is both the watcher and the speaker; you relax into presence and, at the same time, give the mental order as-if. The effect is a centered, luminous life where worship becomes mental practice and personal life becomes its outflow. This is true worship: a union of inner illumination and cognitive assent, lived in the now.