"For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father (Daddy)." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs - heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory . . . . . In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but he Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God's people in accordance with the will of God."
Romans 8: 14-17; 26-27
"The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except that person's own spirit within? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spririt-taught words. The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit."
1 Corinthians 2: 10-14
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It may be impossible to describe what it is "like" to have the Holy Spirit pray in us, since there is probably no adequate human analogy or metaphor. No faculty of the mind, or soul, can fathom this gift, as it is that which knows the mind of God that descends upon/within us, filling us with being intimately known by Himself, but with no way of knowing how this happens, or even what it means in the moment. Nothing in the imagination even wants to know, as it is being known by its Source and is completely docile.
There are after-effects, as it were, where the senses and will and intellect are re-ordered, but even intuition knows itself to be passive during this grace, as the source of all things gently awakens everything to itself and by itself.
w.c., I understand this constant "praying" of the Spirit very much along the line you're suggesting -- as an inner presence that orients the mind and will to God before we even say a conscious prayer. In some ways, this is very much akin to mystical contemplation, which is probably a direct experience of the Spirit's praying.
This topic also calls to mind the pentecostal gift of tongues, which I've experienced now for 32 years. From time to time during the day, this type of prayer gently suggests itself, and giving utterance (mostly silently) can help to facilitate healing and the opening of blockages. It's as though the Spirit works through the medium of unintelligible sound to vibrate the chakras and stimulate the movement of energy in accordance with the ways of the divine. - see http://www.veritas.org.sg/web_...s/SACCRE/tongues.htm
