Wrestling Prayer

I appeal to you brethren, for the sake of or Lord Jesus Cjrist and by the love given by the Spirt, to unite with me in earnest wrestling in prayer to God in my behalf. Pray that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Kudea and that my mission of relief to Jerusalem may be acceptable and graciously received by the saints. Romans 15:30,31

Paul was asking for intercession from the Roman believers and they may well have done as asked however Paul was not delivered from the unbelievers in Judae, in fact they imprisoned him and he ended up going to Rome in chains.

Paul had a plan and he thought he knew how best to bring it about, yet it came to pass differently to that expected or wanted.

God always has a plan and yes He wanted Paul in Rome but he went a very long way around, he was in the governor Felix's home in Caesarea, under guard, for about 2 years, shipped to Roman under guard, shipwrecked and delivered under guard to Rome. He would not make it to Spain for some time and then end back in chains leading to his death. Paul, like us, asked for earnest prayer. People do pray and sometimes so fervently they wake me in the night and I sense a real presence of God, I see and hear great things but then I know I must keep doing what I have been given to  do. The mighty times often come to strengthen us for mighty troubling times, but we come through.

Rember we can do all we can to get somewhere without a scrape but sometimes we have to walk through the heat to show God's glory. Amen!