Good Monday morning to you, thanks for listening to the podcast.

We're going to start this week talking about prayer.

Sometimes we say that we are wrestling in prayer for something.

We hear others use that phrase as well, and that phrase wrestling in prayer is a biblical

one used by the Apostle Paul in the book of Colossians, but it only appears one time.

So what does he mean, Biblically speaking, to wrestle in prayer?

That's the question from a listener to the podcast named Jason, Pastor John, hello.

I listen to your podcast daily through my iPhone.

Thank you for helping me think through questions, even questions I didn't even know should

be asked.

Here's mine.

In Colossians 4, verse 12, Paul affirms a paffress because he is always wrestling or struggling

in prayer for the Church of Colossi.

What does it mean to wrestle in prayer?

Who is the wrestling against, and how do I, and all of us learn to wrestle like this,

to wrestle in prayer ourselves?

Well, the first thing I'd say is that kind of question is so good, so important, it's

so simple, like you're reading along and you tend to just breeze by something, and he's

stopping and saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute, what's that really like?

Well, he says he's wrestling in prayer.

What would that feel like?

What would I be doing differently than I'm doing?

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