When we come to the end of the passage on spiritual warfare in Ephesians chapter 6 we are confronted with Paul’s injunction to pray. Since Paul does not use the metaphor of a Roman soldier to describe prayer, as he does for other parts of our armor, there is a tendency to think that prayer is not part of spiritual warfare. That cannot be further from the truth. Prayer is the key supply line in our fight against Satan. Prayer is crucial in properly using every other weapon in our armor.
There is a second error that we tend to commit at the end of this passage: looking at verse 18 only, not realizing that if we do so we are cutting Paul’s sentence in half. Verse 19 and 20 are part of verse 18. When we look at the sentence as a whole, we realize that part of the purpose of spiritual warfare is so that we may be bold (as Paul requests for himself) in our witness for Christ — to speak the gospel, and to speak it correctly.
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Kurt Snow serves as a ruling elder at Covenant Reformed Church of Sacramento (RCUS). He served as a member of the Board of Governors of City Seminary of Sacramento from 2000 to 2020.