Pastor's Prayer for His People
Robert Dawson
Ephesians 1:17-23
Have you ever struggled with prayer? Not just prayer itself but what to pray when you pray especially when you are praying for other people and you don't know of a specific need? You want to pray for them but you want your prayer to go just a little bit deeper than, 'God bless ___, AMEN.'
If we struggle with prayer and what to pray for others it makes you wonder if people pray for you what they pray? What do they ask God for?
Those to whom Paul ministered did not have to guess what Paul prayed for them or wanted for their lives. Scattered among Paul's letters in the NT we find prayers that Paul offered to God on behalf of friends and the church and then he shared with them what he was asking God for on their behalf.
I want us to take a few minutes this morning and look at some of Paul's prayers. Not look at all of them in depth but some major themes that come out of them that may help us.
Ephesians 1:17-23: (I pray) that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might 20 which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. 22 And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
Ephesians 3:14-21: For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom ...
Robert Dawson
Ephesians 1:17-23
Have you ever struggled with prayer? Not just prayer itself but what to pray when you pray especially when you are praying for other people and you don't know of a specific need? You want to pray for them but you want your prayer to go just a little bit deeper than, 'God bless ___, AMEN.'
If we struggle with prayer and what to pray for others it makes you wonder if people pray for you what they pray? What do they ask God for?
Those to whom Paul ministered did not have to guess what Paul prayed for them or wanted for their lives. Scattered among Paul's letters in the NT we find prayers that Paul offered to God on behalf of friends and the church and then he shared with them what he was asking God for on their behalf.
I want us to take a few minutes this morning and look at some of Paul's prayers. Not look at all of them in depth but some major themes that come out of them that may help us.
Ephesians 1:17-23: (I pray) that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might 20 which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. 22 And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
Ephesians 3:14-21: For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom ...
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