Answered prayer
I had some really lovely and wonderful answers to prayer at church recently.
I prayed for Gary's preaching of the word of God, and Gary turned round and preached an absolute blinder of a sermon on ... prayer. It was on one prayer in particular—Paul's prayer in Ephesians 3:14-19. What a marvellous model of what we should, can and must pray for!
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (Eph 3:14-19)
It is both a privilege and a delight to pray, and one of the reasons we pray is because we can! Gary reminded us that, contrary to popular belief, not everyone can pray: only those who have access into the Heavenly Father's throne room through the shed blood of Jesus Christ our Lord can enjoy this privilege.