Continue Steadfastly In Prayer

 In our Christian lives, we are led to Continue Steadfastly In Prayer, to pray continuously, to present our needs before our heavenly Provider and to to lift up others.  This is proposed by Paul as a duty and responsibility, and yet it is the greatest privilege given to the believer to come before the Lord with petitions, prayers, and pleas for our fellow-man and our brothers and sisters in Christ.
 We are to persevere in prayer; to commit to pray and not to give up, especially when the answer seems a long time in coming. We are to persist in prayer, even when faced with mounting difficulties and discouragements, and we are to pray daily, to pray without ceasing, and to take up our cross and saturate it in prayer. 
 Let us all remember that when the prayers are offered to the Lord in steadfast faith, combined with grateful thanks and a trusting heart, we have the authority of heaven behind all that we carry to the throne of grace, through His nail-pierced hands and feet.
Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, we bless You for Your grace and mercy to us. Thank You that we have the right to lay at Your feet our own needs and those of others. Increase our understanding of the great privilege of prayer that has been granted to us and all Your children, and we pray that we increasingly devote our lives to You in prayer, praise, and grateful thanks. This we ask in Jesus' name, AMEN.