How's your prayer life?

What does your prayer life look like?

What are the requests that you have for other people?

Physical healing?

New job?

Financial problems?

Broken relationships?

Those aren't necessarily unbiblical, but how often have you prayed for others like Paul prayed for the Ephesian church?

Ephesians 3:14-19 is one long sentence that reveals Paul's prayer life for the believers in Ephesus.

Whittle out all the clauses, phrases and modifiers and you'll see that Paul is praying that they would be able to comprehend and know the love of Christ.

Is that even on your prayer list?

Comprehend means to grasp the facts of Christ's love. His incarnation, crucifixion and resurrection. His choosing of me to be His child. His advocacy for me when I sin. His role as High Priest, mediator between God and me. And so much more.

Paul prays that the believers would comprehend all the facts: the events and works of Christ that demonstrate His love.

To know His love is to experience it. His comfort in the time of sorrow. His strength in the time of weakness. His companionship in the time of loneliness. His forgiveness in the time of failure. His grace in dealing with ungracious people. His mercy in reaching out to others.

Paul describes Christ's love as immense.

An unlimited source of learning and experiencing.

We will never reach the end of Christ's love. There will always be more to comprehend and to know.

So how should you pray differently for others?