(Based on 1 Timothy 2:1-7)
It seems that we sorely neglect our responsibility and subsequently fail to utilize fully our potential power and capability in prayer. In Paul’s first letter to his young protégé Timothy, he instructs him to exhort the believers in the church at Ephesus to “pray for all men” because it is the divine desire that “all men be saved.” This desire meant enough to God that He sent His Son to give His life as a voluntary “ransom for all.” Striking and even puzzling is the reality that an infinitely holy and ultimately powerful God calls upon the prayers of feeble and frail humanity to hasten the realization of His desire, which is the salvation of all men.
For the church to fail in the enterprise of prayer is to disregard our greatest call, silence our greatest force, and treat with contempt the greatest sacrifice ever known since the beginning of time, namely the voluntary giving of Christ’s own life on Calvary’s cross. Let us take seriously this call to pray for all men and fervently engage this marvelous privilege.
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I would LOVE to be a great prayer warrior, but I'm not good at it and want to learn how to be. I mainly throw up prayers to God all the time, but when it comes to praying in a public domain, I get tongue tied. IS there any way to learn how to pray in public? I do know that the more that you do it, the easier it becomes. Is there some way someone could help us all learn to pray out loud?
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