Have you ever wished for more power in your prayer life? Do you sometimes have trouble trying to figure out for what you should be praying? Do you have problems with your mind wandering when you pray? In this passage we find four elements of praying powerfully. Paul begins: For this reason I kneel before the Father (3:14a). The phrase for this reason repeats and picks up the prayer Paul began in verse one. He began a prayer and then parenthetically wrote about the mystery of the ages—the mystery of the church—in verses 2–13. Overwhelmed by the mystery of the church and his privilege of sharing the mystery, Paul exclaims, I kneel before the Father.
When we really mean business in prayer, we often kneel. Kneeling is not a required posture for prayer. However, it reveals a special spirit of submission and acknowledges we are in the presence of an awesome, holy God who is much higher than us. Sometimes in prayer we need to follow what example of the psalmist in Psalm 95:6?
