Have you ever wished for more power in your prayer life? Do you sometimes have trouble figuring out what you should be praying for? Do you have problems with your mind wandering when you pray? In this passage, we find four elements of praying powerfully. Paul begins: For this reason I kneel before the Father (3:14a). The phrase for this reason repeats and picks up the prayer Paul began in verse one. He began a prayer and then parenthetically wrote about the mystery of the ages—the mystery of the church—in verses 2–13. Overwhelmed by the mystery of the church and his privilege of sharing the mystery, Paul exclaims, I kneel before the Father.
