Colossians 4:12 KJV
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
Ephaphras was one of them most likely in the sense that he was from that church. But he is also one of them in the sense that he is not above them. He is not out of touch and out of reach. He is a real man they really know and who really knows them.
Epaphras is representative of any Christian because we all know someone and some church in the same way that Epaphras knew them.
Epaphras laboured fervently for them. What a great testimony that is! We need believers who will labour fervently one for another.
Epaphra laboured fervently in prayers. We seldom see prayer as being such fervent labor or as being something that is that effective. We are thankful when we hear that someone prayed for us; but I doubt that we see it as the great boon it really is.
Epaphras had this goal in prayer; that they would stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. His prayers were not on the earthly plane so to speak. He wasn't praying for their jobs, or their health. He wasn't even praying for the protection from the enemies of the Gospel. He prayed fervently for them for spiritual things.
How I want to learn to pray the same.
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
Ephaphras was one of them most likely in the sense that he was from that church. But he is also one of them in the sense that he is not above them. He is not out of touch and out of reach. He is a real man they really know and who really knows them.
Epaphras is representative of any Christian because we all know someone and some church in the same way that Epaphras knew them.
Epaphras laboured fervently for them. What a great testimony that is! We need believers who will labour fervently one for another.
Epaphra laboured fervently in prayers. We seldom see prayer as being such fervent labor or as being something that is that effective. We are thankful when we hear that someone prayed for us; but I doubt that we see it as the great boon it really is.
Epaphras had this goal in prayer; that they would stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. His prayers were not on the earthly plane so to speak. He wasn't praying for their jobs, or their health. He wasn't even praying for the protection from the enemies of the Gospel. He prayed fervently for them for spiritual things.
How I want to learn to pray the same.
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