Day 2 Ephesians

One of the best ways to learn how to pray is to study the prayers of the Bible. By listening in across the centuries, we learn a great deal about the content of biblical prayer and the intensity with which we should pray. Content is obvious but the concept of intensity may be new to some people. Many contemporary Christians find themselves easily distracted when they attempt to pray. If the truth were told, often we are playing around at our prayers instead of approaching prayer with a holy intensity. How different this is from the prayers of Moses or Daniel or David or Paul. These men of God prayed with fire in their souls. They cried out to God with a single-minded focus that seemed to shut out the world around them.

​The Window of the Soul
There is a great lesson here if we care to take it. Prayer is truly the window of the soul. What we pray for, we care for. We all pray for what concerns us. And the reverse is also true. What we don’t pray about, we don’t care about. That’s a solemn and convicting thought, and though we may try to escape its force, we cannot escape the truth. We can say all we want about how much something means to us, but if we never bring it before God in prayer, we cannot truly say that we care deeply about it. What we pray about, we care about. Until Jesus comes again we will need to make war in the heavenlies but we can rest assured that through Christ the battle is won.

 ACTION STEP: Read Ephesians Chapter 3:1 – 13.