Struggling on Your Behalf in Prayers

It may be one of the most overlooked ministries we can perform for others: to struggle on their behalf in our prayers.

The idea comes from Paul’s description of Epaphras in Colossians 4:12-13: “Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God. For I bear him witness that he has worked hard for you and for those in Laodicea and in Hierapolis.”

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