After telling us about our need for spiritual armor in facing our enemy, Paul adds: “And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints” (Ephesians 6:18).
Commenting on this verse in How to Pray, R.A. Torrey writes:
Paul realized the natural slothfulness of man, and especially his natural slothfulness in prayer. How seldom we pray things through!…I wish the whole verse might burn into our hearts. But why is this constant, persistent, sleepless, overcoming prayer so needful? First of all, because there is a devil…and if the child of God relaxes in prayer, the devil will succeed in ensnaring him.
If an empty mind is the devil’s playground, what better way to fill ours than with prayer?
Praise God for providing you with spiritual armor through prayer; repent of any failure to take up this armor; ask Him to burn into your heart His call to prayer; yield to Him today by presenting more requests to Him, for more of the saints.
