Fearless

This was done April 12 but I couldn't post until today.

Ephesians 6:18-20

Pray for me! Pray will all kinds of requests and prayers! Just pray! It seems like Paul’s strategy for an offensive against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms is to pray. He doesn’t differentiate between any kinds of prayers but just urges his reader to pray. There’s a sense of urgency to his imperative.
Paul also realizes that he is in the middle of a spiritual battle whenever he witnesses for Jesus and speaks on his behalf and so he asks for prayer: first that he would be given words to make known the mystery of the gospel and secondly that he would declare those words fearlessly.
Pray for me that I would be given words to make known the mystery of the gospel. Pray that I would not make the gospel to simple so that it loses its mystery. Pray that I would not reduce the mystery of the gospel to a formula. Pray for me that I would also speak fearlessly. I desperately want people to like me so pray that I would not be held back by that desire but would speak fearlessly the truth in the context of loving relationships. Pray for me that I would be aware of the spiritual battle that is being waged for the souls of our students. Pray that not one more student in Lethbridge would be lost (I’m tired of losing them!) to the kingdom of darkness. Pray that I would be protected as I begin to engage this battle. This is war. Pray for me.