The most useful thing Scripture says about praying for someone else is not a command. It is the record of what Paul actually asked for. He prays for these churches constantly and tells them so, and the requests are remarkably narrow. He never asks for anyone’s circumstances to improve. He asks for knowledge, discernment, endurance, love that increases, hope that overflows — and almost nothing else. That is worth knowing on an evening when we have somebody’s name and no…
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