Prayer is the most important ministry in the work of God, because our glorified Lord now sits at the right hand of the Father interceding for His body, the church. “Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us” (Romans 8:34). Believers indeed live in a time when many countries face peril of unpredictable magnitude. Let us ask the Lord to cleanse us from all carelessness concerning perishing souls, and from complacency about His church and its completion.

Let us magnify Christ by being made powerful in prayer. These times in which Christians live call for “all prayer”...