Wrestling ( Luke 22 v 44 )

Consider the description of Epaphras praying ,it is likened unto one who wrestles ,the effort of Epaphras' prayers was like the intense effort of a Greek athlete contending for a prize....this intense effort was ceaseless,always wrestling (J. A. Beet )Now prayer takes many forms ,the hymn writer describes prayer as ,'the souls desire uttered or unexpressed,a sigh,a tear,the upward glancing of an eye, the simplest form of speech ( James Montgomery) Now all those things are legitimate ,if they are sincere and from the heart.they are acceptable to God. I remember many years ago my Pastor telling us about a well known evangelist,who was staying in a hotel,and when the person came to make the bed,the sheets were all ripped,that evangelist had been wrestling in prayer Consider our Saviour in the garden praying ,we read,'and being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground ( Luke 22 v 44 ) Now that's wrestling in prayer, may God grant unto us that our prayers may not just be words.