Steadfast prayer
by Eden Bishop
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Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving (Colossians 4:2).
Read Colossians 3:18–4:18
When someone asks you to picture someone praying, what do you imagine? Do you visualise someone kneeling beside their bed, head bowed, and their hands clasped? Do you think of someone sitting in a church pew or at a kitchen table? Do you picture yourself praying? As a child, the classic image of someone praying beside their bed came to mind when I thought about prayer. However, our nightly prayers did not go like this: we children would be in bed, and our parents would pray for us. This used to worry me somewhat as a child. Were we praying correctly?
As it happens, there are no restrictions on the time of day or how you must sit when you pray. God hears our prayers whether we pray beside or in bed. However, we do have some instructions about how to pray. That is, to pray in the first place! We should continue praying and do so with thanksgiving. Therefore, we shouldn’t be discouraged if our prayers appear unanswered. God still wants to hear them.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for the amazing gift that is prayer. Thank you that we can bring our requests to you and for the knowledge that you want to hear them. Amen.
Eden Bishop lives in Adelaide and is a member at St Paul Blair Athol. She attends the University of Adelaide and is in the final year of her Advanced Economics degree. Eden enjoys reading (particularly The Lord of the Rings), playing the piano in church, knitting and learning fun facts about dinosaurs.
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