1 Corinthians 14:14

For if I pray in this way. Paul shows that for worship to be helpful, and for a sane and sound church life, the mind must work together with the energies of the (human) spirit. In a sense, these next few verses counterbalance what he said in 1 Corinthians 1:18 to 1 Corinthians 2:5. Paul is completely opposed to a blind fanaticism or irrational mysticism. It is tragic that some think of faith as: "something you believe, even though you know it isn't so." Paul is saying: "If the Holy Spirit working on my spirit makes it possible for me to pray in a strange tongue, my spirit does pray, but my mind has no part in it (because it does not understand what is being said)."