What do you pray for the most? Do you pray for personal gain? Are your prayers largely about physical healing? Do you pray for financial increase? Do you pray more for yourself or others? Do your prayers include growth in faith and understanding God’s will?
Personal prayers tend to be personal. They often concern our personal wants, desires, or needs. We will include our families and friends in our prayers. Unfortunately, our prayers rarely seek to know God’s will for our lives.
Understanding and comprehension of God is very challenging to us. Yet, it does not mean we cannot grow in both. We can come to know God much better. He is willing to reveal himself to us, if we will only ask.
Not only can we better understand God, but in doing so we can better understand his power. We think we know. We repeat the phrase, “God can do all things.” Yet, we do not fully comprehend his power. If we did, we would be shaking in our boots all day, every day.
Why should we pray to better know God? So we are filled with God’s fullness. As we are filled with his fullness, we see that everything in this life is temporary. We see that it doesn’t really amount to much when we understand God’s plan for eternity.
I pray we all seek to better understand God. I pray we pray for God’s will to be made known to us. I pray each one of us ask God to reveal himself to us so that we may be filled with his fullness. Seek to understand God’s will. Seek to see God’s power. Be filled with God’s fullness.
Ephesians 3:18-19 I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Marty Pressey 