Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, November 4 (4:2-3)
“Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds” — Colossians 4:2, 3.
PRAYER is talking with God. He invites us to come in all simplicity and to tell Him our needs (which He promises to supply) and to intercede on behalf of others. Paul, the very chiefest of all the apostles, felt the need of the prayers of others. Again and again he pleads with the believers in various places to speak to God concerning him and his ministry. How much do we pray for Christ’s servants? And, for ourselves, do we pray for God to endorse our programs, or do we ask that He will reveal His mind to us and give us grace to act accordingly?
—Helen McDowell.