Interspersed in our upcoming 5:17 church sermon series on the Gospel of Mark, we will be looking at Prayer.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 is a great memory verse. It simply says: pray without ceasing. That’s easy to remember, and while this is true, it’s a hard thing to do. I find prayer a challenge – it’s really easy to get caught up in lots of other things, and forget that God is there, and that prayer is a sign of our dependency on Him.
In my last post, I wrote on the topic: what is prayer? Following on from that, I think the next obvious question to think through is: what should I pray for?
I just read a really helpful article by Pastor John Piper on this exact topic. He begins the article this way:
One way to answer this question is to look at what the early church prayed for. Here is a list gathered from the New Testament. It can guide you in how you pray. I suggest that periodically you pray through this list just to test whether your prayers are leaving out anything the New Testament included. We don’t have to pray all of these each time we pray. But over time it would be good if our prayers had the breadth and depth of the New Testament prayers.
For the full article, click here.
May God’s Word guide our prayers, and in turn give us confidence that what we are praying for are indeed things that God loves to hear.
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