It’s serious. Yes, that serious.
And it’s time.
“It’s time for us to call one another to serious prayer,” said Ed Cruce, director of missions for Bessemer Baptist Association.
Preaching from Ephesians 6:10–20, Cruce told those present at the Tuesday morning session of the Alabama Baptist State Convention that believers need to band together as prayer warriors in order to be a part of God’s Plan for Sharing.
“As I read this text today, I’m aware that all of us are in that spiritual warfare, and it’s time for all of us to be prayer warriors.”
“Sometimes our warring has been in the wrong direction,” he said. “God calls us to pray in a marvelous way in this passage.”
Believers need to pray against circumstances, about conversions and for one another, Cruce said.
“There are circumstances that affect the spread of the gospel, and we need to pray against them,” he said.
But we need to pray for people’s conversions, not against those individuals, Cruce said.
“Those ‘flesh and blood’ people aren’t the enemy — they are our target.”
Cruce said he’s convinced that the real key is to pray for the lost by name.
“We’ve been set free but they haven’t yet,” Cruce said. “We need to pray for them and get down where they are.”
Christians also need to pray for their own cleansing and renewal, he said.
“I believe praying for one another starts with praying for me. I don’t want to be excluded in God’s Plan for Sharing. I want to be included in that so I need to pray,” Cruce said.
“I think He’s asking us to enter into Him with that great work of witness.” (TAB)
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