What do you regularly pray for? Do you pray for your family and friends? Do you pray for good health or healing? Do you pray for a new job or new relationship? Do you pray for the attitudes of others to change? Do you pray that love overflows in everyone you know?
Prayer is a vital part of our walk with God. It is through prayer that we communicate to God our desires. When we are quiet in our prayers, we may hear God speak to us. What we pray for is important. Not just important to us, but important to God as well.
The Apostle Paul tells the church in Philippi that he is praying for them. His specific requests for them includes asking that their love overflows and that they gain knowledge and insights. He desires that they determine what is best based on the knowledge and insights they acquire and the love they have for one another.
Our prayers can be very similar to Paul’s. We should pray that everyone we know overflows with the love of God. We should also pray they gain knowledge and insights. Specifically, knowledge and insights into the will of God. The more we know about the will of God and the deeper we are in his love, the better our decision-making will be.
What is the result? A harvest of righteousness. Not that it comes from us, but that it comes from Jesus. What is the purpose? To give God the glory and to praise him. That is our purpose in this life. Oh, there will be professions we work at. But our main purpose in life is to praise God and bring him the glory. The more we seek to do that, the better we will be.
I pray we all spend time in prayer to God. I pray we pray for one another to grow in knowledge of God. I pray each one of us will pray that God’s love grows in one another so we may praise God and give him the glory. Spend time in prayer. Grow in knowledge. Love one another. Praise God. Give God the glory.
Philippians 1:9-11 And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you to determine what is best, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.
Marty Pressey 