Essential Prayer

The necessary--essential--prayer for the beginning of each day: "Nevertheless, not my will but Thine be done." Essential.


Paul implores us to be "striving together for the faith of the gospel."
He testifies, "And for this purpose--that we may present every man complete in Christ--I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me."
The word "striving" is the same word translated "agonizing" in the telling of our Lord's praying in the Garden of Gethsemane.

That's why that prayer for each day is so essential. If we are going to strive--agonize--together for the faith of the gospel, for the ministry of presenting those we love and serve complete in Christ, we must pray with Him. "Not my will but Thine." Only then can I access "the power which mightily works within me."