“For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto
the Father” (Ephesians 2:18)
When I was editing John Owen’s Gospel Church Government last year, one
of the passages that really struck me concerned prayer as part of the
fellowship that churches and individual Christians enjoy. Owen makes the following point:
They have a
blessed fellowship in prayer continually.
This fellowship is more evident in that the prayers of all are for
all. There is not a single particular
church or a single member of any of them that does not have the prayer support
of all the churches in the world and all the members of them every day. Though this fellowship is invisible to the
eyes of flesh, it is glorious to the eye of faith. It is a part of the glory of Christ the
mediator in heaven. This fellowship in
prayer gives to all churches a communion far more glorious than any outward
rite or plan of men’s devising (p. 101).
Upon reading
this passage, I particularly remember being deeply humbled and encouraged as I
considered the fact that though the prayers of the saints and the intercession
of Christ, I had “the prayer support of all the churches in the world and all
the members of them every day.” The Lord
knows our needs. An army of his saints
are constantly praying for the concerns of his people and for the expansion of
his kingdom. We have prayer
support.
Grace and peace, Pastor Jeff Riddle
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