God has no greater controversy with his people than this...

"Brethren, pray for us" (1 Thess 5:25).

In one of the shortest verses in the entire bible Paul makes the following request of the believers in Thessalonica: "Brethren, pray for us." In this verse Paul was asking the Thessalonian believers to pray for him and his co-laborers. In this same chapter we also find Paul encouraging these believer to "Pray without ceasing" (1 Thess 5:17). And 1 Thess 3:10 we see also that Paul did not just encourage others to pray for him. He said of himself and his fellow workers, "Night and day praying exceedingly."

There is no doubt that Paul believed in the power of prayer and that his practice of prayer was one of the keys to his powerful ministry. A.T. Pierson wrote, "God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession." Let us be those few who do not just talk about prayer but who talk to God in prayer.