Search Our Blog Posts
Blog Article Tags
We love building relationships. Subscribe to our blog to receive weekly encouragement in your email inbox.
- Details
As I read Paul’s description of the armor of God in Ephesians 6, I picture the times I have tried to recreate that armor for Vacation Bible Schools and children’s classes over the years. Drawing and crafts are not some of my strengths, but the children proudly wore their armor and pretended to battle, with all the passion of a valiant soldier of God.
God’s armor is much sturdier than our feeble attempts, but the facet of the armor that I want to highlight today is found in verse 18:
“...praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication...”
The description of the armor of God concludes with prayer. It is like the glue that holds the armor together in the battle.
This month, as Christian brothers and sisters across the world lift Iron Rose Sister Ministries in prayer, and specifically today, prayers for me personally, I am reminded of the vital place prayer fills in the armor of God.
No matter where God takes me, no matter what the spiritual battle I am facing, your prayers are my glue. I feel the spiritual strength of your words to the Father on my behalf. And I thank you.
I never feel alone when I travel, write, speak, or serve. Your prayers have carried me before the Father’s throne and accompany me through all the steps and aspects of what He has called us to as a ministry.
Please know that you are in my prayers as well—many of you by name. May our combined prayers be the glue of our spiritual armor!
- Details
Written by Wendy Neill
Do you struggle with how to pray for those who don’t know Christ? I have a younger brother who walked away from Jesus as a teenager. I have been praying for him for 30 years, sometimes in tears, sometimes with my face on the ground. To be perfectly honest with you, I get weary. I believe the Bible teaches that we all have free will, so what’s the point in praying for him? He has chosen to reject God. Can God make him accept his free gift of grace?
During one such time of weariness, I found myself in a Harding Lectureship class titled “Praying for Lost Loved Ones.” The speaker reminded us that God desires for all to be saved (2 Pet. 3:9), and that Jesus came to seek and save the lost (Luke 19:10; John 3:16-17). He also recommended a book that I later read called Intercessory Prayer by Dutch Sheets. I didn’t agree with everything in the book, but it inspired me to intercede, to mediate, and to pursue reconciliation through prayer.