Covered by Prayer
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; Ephesians 6:18.
Ephesians 6:11-17 Is very familiar or should be to every Christian. In it Paul talks about Putting on the whole armour of God, The Word of God. Many preachers have preached about & I’ve read many blogs from Christians about it but I have noticed they always seem to miss verse 18. Yet it still a very vital verse & weapon for a Christian going into battle. Paul does not include it as part of the amour of God but places it right where it belongs at the back of the amour.
The helmet of salvation covers the front & back of the head but the breastplate of Righteousness, shield of Faith & the Sword of the Spirit all protect the front going into battle. A christian only knows to go forward into battle they never turn thier back on the enemy & run in defeat. Yet we need our backs covered because the enemy never fights fair & will use every dirty trick in his book to try & cause us to fall or be wounded in battle. It’s always a great reassurance to know we got our backs covered in any situation. It can give us that extra Faith we need at times. We need to be covered every inch in the battle.
This is why verse 18 is placed perfectly at the back of the amour. Lets read verse 18 again… Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. It is prayer that covers our backs. We are to pray always. In another place Paul writes “Pray without ceasing.”. The enemy is always watching, waiting to attack us without mercy. We can get lax, tired and lower our guard that will give opportunity for the enemy to pierce us through with his fiery darts. Not only do we need to be always in prayer but in “all prayer and supplication in the Spirit” . What does this mean? It means in our private times of prayer, with our prayer partners, in church, in prayer meetings etc. And with supplication or in other words to humbly petition God more earnestly in the Spirit. When we are in the Spirit, we know are in His Word, in His Perfect Will. We can be in Full Faith then. Watching thereunto, for what? Watching out for ourselves, our brothers & sisters… They might have fallen or got weakened in battle, we can pray for strength for them. Watching for the enemy to thwart his attacks on ourselves as well as our brothers and sisters. We can watch also for a Blessing. Watching God answer prayer for ourselves & others. Being encouraged, strengthened having our faith raised that we might “with all perseverance ” be more stedfast in the heat and midst of the raging battle that we are in. Again The Word says “and supplication” we are not to stop humbly entreating, petitioning The Lord to answer pray with all urgancy. “for all saints” Not only our friends that are christians or members that go to our church, not only those that have the same doctines & beliefs but ” all saints”. We are all brothers & sisters if we are in Christ. We are all united in fighting the “good fight of faith” battling against the enemy to save souls from hell & win them for Christ. This is our one common purpose that puts aside all doctrinal differences or whatever. A army divided will be defeated. We stand as one in Christ. We are undefeated in Christ.