Will You Go to Battle in Prayer?
Read Colossians 4:12-13
Today’s Truth
What does working hard look like to you? Sweating it out at the gym. Tackling that kitchen reno you’ve talked about for years. Moving a friend into their new apartment.
When we think about hard work, we often think about blood, sweat, and tears. We rarely think about the kind of hard work Paul describes at the end of Colossians.
Colossians 4:12 describes Epaphras wrestling in prayer for his friends back home. Other translations describe him as struggling in prayer and being tireless in his prayers.
Discussion Questions
- How would your prayer life change if you took Epaphras’s approach to prayer?
- Who can you pray proactively for today?
Application
Hard work is good for us. Just like it grows our muscles physically, going to work in prayer builds our muscles spiritually. It challenges us to see beyond what we want to see what God might be doing in someone’s life. The result is prayer that draws us into deeper maturity and a heart that wants the same for those we love.
