So let's look straight at the text for a few minutes. I see at least three three things that tell us how to pray and three things that tell us what to pray in this context of frontline evangelism support. HOW TO PRAY 1. Prayer is not like these remote control telephones that you can buy nowadays. They store up energy when you are not using them, and they run down while you use them.
Prayer is just the opposite.
It increases in power the more it is used and when you hang it up the power drains out of it. If you want to have a crucial role in the great spiritual warfare of these days, and not just be passed over as a useless soldier, you need to keep the walkie talkie with you all day, keep it in the on position and ask again and again for God to give you your bearings and and guide you through the mine fields of temptation and make you alert to every to every oppotunity to witness to his promised victory. The second answer to how we pray is watchfully. This means that the enemy knows the danger of these walkie talkies. He will try to jam the airwaves or steal the transmitter or just put you to sleep with some drug.