The Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is never the object of prayer, but is always spoken of in the Word as the medium and power of prayer, praise and fellowship, as also of suffering and service. If this be right to address the Spirit in prayer in the Christian dispensation, why is there no instance of it in the Christian Scriptures? Because He is here on earth and in the saint. "The Spirit is life." He identifies Himself with the saints, and is the divine source, energy, power and originator of their spiritual thoughts, affections, feelings and emotions.
The "praying in the Holy Ghost" is "according to the Scriptures," not praying to the Holy Spirit. Adoringly do I own the Holy Spirit as one of the Persons in the Godhead, and when I pray to God, of course it is as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, but then this is in regard to Godhead. But when it is the several Persons in the Godhead in connection with the work of redemption and the Church, we never find any example of prayer to the Holy Spirit, nor any injunction to pray to the Holy Spirit. He is in us.
“What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost... which ye have of God." And again, "The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us." Strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man, He causes Christ to dwell in the heart by faith, and seeing that He now characterizes the new life which He imparts, we never find that He in us is the object of address in praise, prayer or worship, for this would lead us to pray to a power in ourselves, and to be occupied with His work in us, instead of with Christ, who is the object of faith and whom the Holy Spirit delights to glorify.
In Rom. 8, the Holy Spirit is the power of life in the Christian, though also clearly seen as distinct from the believer. He is not only a living force within us, but the living God as well. Hence there is a moral propriety in not praying to the Holy Spirit. What commands our faith and practice is that in the Scriptures there is neither precept nor example for praying to the Holy Spirit, as we sometimes hear in prayers and hymns. But Scripture is wiser than our hymn-writers, and it never tells us to invoke the Holy Spirit.
“But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, PRAYING IN THE HOLY GHOST, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.”
Jude 20, 21.