"Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving;"
Colossians 4:2 (NKJV)
Whether it was on the job or at home, at one time or another pretty much everyone has had some type of project to do. Depending on the work that needed to be done the project may have only taken a little bit of time or it may have lasted for quite a while. We might start a project thinking it will take us a certain amount of time but once we begin the project we find that what is required to finish the work is more than we had planned on so the time we spend on that project is longer than originally anticipated. But no matter what, for a project to be done right we have to stay with it until it is finished.
In Ephesians 6:18 Paul talks about praying with all kinds of prayer. We always use the Word of God as our foundation for prayer, no matter what we are praying about we first find out what the Bible says and then we pray. Many people are familiar with the prayer of faith where we ask God for something He promised in His Word; we pray and believe and that is the end of the prayer, once you have asked in faith you don't keep asking again and again, otherwise you did not ask in faith. But there are some things that we pray about that become prayer projects and then we pray in a different way.
Paul said he prayed for people repeatedly (Ephesians 1:15, 16; Colossians 1:9) and Paul asked that people pray that he would have opportunities to speak and the right words to say (Colossians 4:3; Ephesians 6:19), these things could be called prayer projects, things that can be prayed about often. Some prayer projects like these are the kind that we just keep on praying about repeatedly and some prayer projects are the kind that we pray about several times and then see the result, which brings that prayer project to an end. There are many different prayer projects we could have but no matter what, once we have that project in prayer we continue with it and expect to see results.
Colossians 4:2 (NKJV)
Whether it was on the job or at home, at one time or another pretty much everyone has had some type of project to do. Depending on the work that needed to be done the project may have only taken a little bit of time or it may have lasted for quite a while. We might start a project thinking it will take us a certain amount of time but once we begin the project we find that what is required to finish the work is more than we had planned on so the time we spend on that project is longer than originally anticipated. But no matter what, for a project to be done right we have to stay with it until it is finished.
In Ephesians 6:18 Paul talks about praying with all kinds of prayer. We always use the Word of God as our foundation for prayer, no matter what we are praying about we first find out what the Bible says and then we pray. Many people are familiar with the prayer of faith where we ask God for something He promised in His Word; we pray and believe and that is the end of the prayer, once you have asked in faith you don't keep asking again and again, otherwise you did not ask in faith. But there are some things that we pray about that become prayer projects and then we pray in a different way.
Paul said he prayed for people repeatedly (Ephesians 1:15, 16; Colossians 1:9) and Paul asked that people pray that he would have opportunities to speak and the right words to say (Colossians 4:3; Ephesians 6:19), these things could be called prayer projects, things that can be prayed about often. Some prayer projects like these are the kind that we just keep on praying about repeatedly and some prayer projects are the kind that we pray about several times and then see the result, which brings that prayer project to an end. There are many different prayer projects we could have but no matter what, once we have that project in prayer we continue with it and expect to see results.
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