Praying Always in The Spirit Pt. 4 | Lesson 162

Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, emphasized that prayer is not a mere scheduled “prayer time,” but an ongoing, vigilant participation in spiritual warfare. Teaching from Ephesians 6:18, he explained faithfulness in prayer as keeping our hearts “in the Spirit with all diligence,” recognizing enemies both within (our wrong thoughts, doubts about God’s forgiveness, vain humility) and without (the world’s ideas, influences, and pressures). Using Christ’s agony in Gethsemane and the disciples’ failure to watch and pray, he showed how easily believers can grow dull, distracted, or spiritually asleep, and how prayer is God’s means to keep us alert, guarded, and strengthened in the inner man.

He also described the fullness of prayer as the Word and Spirit moving from mere knowledge into action—Christ dwelling in our hearts by faith so that His love “which passes knowledge” is actually lived out. Drawing from Ephesians 1–3 and 4–6, he urged believers not to stop at right theology, but to let prayerful meditation on God’s truth produce concrete obedience: serving others, meeting needs, interceding for all saints, bearing infirmities, and walking as children of light. In sum, Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, called the church to be a praying people—continuing instant in prayer, watching with all perseverance—so that we neither ignore the battle nor waste our completeness in Christ, but glorify God by actively doing His will.