What if we consistently spent at least 30 minutes a day praying? What if we spent 30 minutes a day praying for others? It would change everything.
Are there struggles, are there challenges, does it feel like your whole household or everything you touch has been snake bit? The antitode is Prayer to the Most High, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
When we run out of our own thoughts and words and cares to pray, the Spirit helps us with groanings that come forth when we lay/sit/stand in silence before Him. Praying in the Spirit is something one has to experience to understand. It has been reviled and cast down (hmm, wonder why such push back over something people claim isn’t real) – but owe, the richness of God’s presence when we pray in tongues. Words that come forth from our Spirit before the Father.
However you pray to the Lord, know that it is of utmost important to pray without ceasing. Below I as template of sorts to help us as we pray for others based on Colossians 1.
Father I pray for [insert name(s)]. I ask God to fill them with the knowledge of Your will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Holy Spirit gives, so that they may live a life worthy of the Lord and please You in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to Your glorious might so that they may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to Thee, the Father, who has qualified them to share in the inheritance of Your holy people in the kingdom of light.
You have rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son You love, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1:9-14
…We have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Romans 8:24-28
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.