Prayer: [prer] a spoken or unspoken address to God, a deity, or a saint. It may express praise, thanksgiving, confession, or a request for something such as help for somebody's well-being.
Prayer is encouraging, affirming, engages our hearts, and is “helpful training” when communicated. Prayer is the underpinning. It’s the crucial element in all we do. Pray for those you mentor for their:
1. Spiritual lives
2. Ministry
3. Relationships within the Body of Christ
It enables them to do what they do. It’s an infusion of spiritual help that they need.
Paul prays in Col 1:9-12, "For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light."
This is a fool proof way for God to answer prayers of those we mentor. If Paul prayed this way for the saints in Colossae, and it is in the Bible, we pray with confidence that we are praying as God would have us pray.
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