Our great example and instructor in prayer is the Lord Jesus Christ.

In God's Word, we find everything we need to develop a life of prayer.

Join Scott Pauli today as we study the Bible together. Can you see the

Apostle Paul sitting in a prison cell? He is in chains. He's in bondage and he's writing to a group

of people that he loves, people that love him. He's writing to a group of people that he loves people that love him he's writing to a

local church now let me ask you if you're in that prison cell and you're writing to people who

know god and know how to pray what would you ask them for would you would you ask them to pray for

you would you pray that you'd be released from prison? There's no doubt.

That's what I would ask. And yet, when the Apostle Paul writes to the church in Colosse,

he does not pray for that. As a matter of fact, when he writes to them, it is not about his need.

Instead, it's about their need. I love the unselfishness in the prayer. He's praying for them.

As a matter of fact, when he prays in the book of Colossians, he does not pray for his prison

door to be open. Colossians chapter 4 in verse 2 and 3, he actually prays for doors to be open for the gospel's

sake.

In other words, he's praying that the will of God will be done both in him and in them.

That's where all of us need to come.

I think sometimes we're so fixated on getting our circumstances changed, our situation better, that we miss the

point of prayer. The point of prayer is this. We should be praying, Lord, I want you to work in me,

and I want you to work in my local church in such a way that the will of God will be accomplished.

We return to this beautiful prayer in Colossians chapter one. It began in verse

nine, where Paul says, for this calls we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for

you, and a desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will and all wisdom and spiritual

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