🙇‍♀️Continue In🙇

 No matter who you are or what your life has been like so far, the rest of your life’s journey can be different. With God’s help you can begin again.  ~Billy Graham~

Colossians 4:2 (KJV) Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

“Continue” To remain in a state, or place; to abide for any time indefinitely. I once again would like for us to think about the battle we are in. One of the greatest weapons as Christians we have is prayer. The enemy wants us not to pray. Have you ever decided to pray and set a time to do so? All goes well until you begin your prayer. Then you start remembering things that need to be done, remembering those you promised to call but didn’t. The things that flood our minds when we begin to pray. It’s the enemy bombarding our mind to get us to stop praying. The Apostle Paul says “Continue in prayer” but then he says “watch” for what? Remember the soldier that does watch puts himself in great danger of being overtaken. Remember that when you pray. Whatever comes to mind that you didn’t do can wait another few minutes. Remember Gideon? He has over 32,000 soldiers. Gideon asked are there any of you afraid? If so you can go home, and 22,000 left. Only 10,000 left and out of those only 300 men were ready for battle. What made the difference? The way they drink water. Yes they realized that even though they were thirsty they must still be alert and watch less the enemy overtake them. So it is with our prayer life we must understand how important it is to pray. Jesus did it and one night to the point of bleeding..that’s what the Doctor said.

Dr Luke said this about Jesus’s prayer before His crucifixion  Luke 22:44 (KJV) And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. What’s interesting was what Jesus told His disciples as they went with Him. Luke 22:40 (KJV) And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.

Jesus was saying pray men and watch that you don’t fall into temptation. But we know they didn't. This should be a learning point for each of us. Pray and watch so we won’t fall into some type of temptation that will wreck our prayers. Then we will have something to be thankful about and we can rejoice with “thanksgiving.”