Day 14 – Prayer: The overlooked weapon

“𝑃𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑠; 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑏𝑒 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑏𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑙𝑦, 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑙, 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑏𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑠: 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑛 𝐼 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑏𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑙𝑦, 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘.” 𝐸𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑠 6:18 -20 (𝐾𝐽𝑉)

Paul concludes with prayer – continuous, alert, persistent prayer. Prayer activates the armour. Without prayer, the armour is worn, but unused. Is prayer your first response or your last resort? In our busy lives we so often fall into habits of only praying a quick prayer when we need something, or when we are in trouble. We should be intentional about our prayers. We should be thankful in our prayers, and we should ask the Lord to make us bold, as Paul does in Ephesians. He says that praying assists him in knowing the mystery of the gospel, but it also causes him to speak boldly.

We are also ambassadors of the gospel, as Paul says he is, and we can only speak boldly and persevere as we should through prayer.

Prayer: Dear Father, please help me to pray intentionally with perseverance. Thank you for giving me the power to speak boldly and to be your ambassador through prayer. Amen.

Written by Michelle Horn