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Week of Prayer: Day Three

 In his excellent book "Praying with Paul: A Call to Spiritual Reformation", Don Carson asks the question "What is the most urgent need in our churches". After discussing several likely answers: purity, generosity, missions and evangelism, he lands on this: "The one thing we most urgently need in our churches is a deeper knowledge of God. We need to know God better". This is exactly what we prayed for each other from Ephesians 1:17 yesterday. What is more "a deeper knowledge of God brings with it massive improvement in every other area we could mention". 

With these thoughts in mind, we turn to another of Paul's prayers as we seek to grow in the knowledge of God.

Pray the Bible: Pray that individually and corporately we would be “filled with a knowledge of God’s will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding” and that we would “live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that we may have great endurance and patience” (Col 1:9-11)

“It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul’s prayers for his friends and the churches contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.” Tim Keller

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