Keep Watch in Prayer

With all prayer and petition. Pray at all times in the Spirit and keep watch in your prayer with unceasing petition for all the saints. (Ephesians 6:18)

We know that whenever we keep watch it is because there is danger ahead. Without danger or an enemy lurking, we would not need to be vigilant. Therefore we must keep watch during the time of prayer and petition. We must find time to pray. If we wait until we are at leisure to pray, we will never have the opportunity to do so. All who want to do the work of intercession or to make progress in the prayer life must “make” time by setting time aside for prayer. Let us guard this time and hold fast to it. We must pray a prayer of protection for our prayer time. Pray that the time of prayer will not be lost.