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This book lays out principles and prayers from Paul’s Prison Epistles, reaching areas of the inner man where emotional traumas and malformations of the soul exercise hidden control. We see in four passages the substance of twelve prayers: Ephesians 1:15-19; Ephesians 3:14-19; Philippians 1:9, 10; and Colossians 1:9-11. We stretch these over a year, taking a month with each prayer. Applying these prayers as we hold others before the Throne of God’s Grace, through a year of disciplined month-by-month and day-by-day praying; we can behold the healing that takes place spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically. Paul was not afraid to lay bare his own soul in writing his Epistles. He made known in them the intimate workings of the Holy Spirit going on inside him. So it can be imagined that, if we take his prayers and pray along their same line, they will become intimate with us. They run deep, reaching areas of the inner man where emotional traumas and malformations of the soul exercise hidden control. They root out ways of thinking and responding to life that are contrary to God's Kingdom, reaching the resentments, fears, anger, bitterness, insecurity, and depression that are running rampant, like emissaries from Satan sent to hinder every relationship. We want to draw as many as possible along with us in this discipline—husbands and wives praying for one another, parents praying for their children, students for teachers, pastors for congregations, friends for friends, citizens for our leaders, etc. It's endless. Just think of the possibilities.
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We can follow these same principles in a There are three principles of praying that Paul's shared in his letter to the Philippians that can prove very beneficial as we begin our monthly discipline. A “principle” is “an essential quality, or element, that explains a natural action.” Regarding the principles of praying, they are motivating forces that make praying for others a natural thing. Actually, it becomes a “naturally supernatural” thing. Prayer will flow from people in whom these principles are released to work. |