Definiteness in Prayer
G. G. Ballard. Philippians 1:9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;… 1. Implies a deep consciousness of an intelligently apprehended need. 2. Is becoming when an intelligent being addresses the Divine Intelligence. 3. Is essential, from the very nature of prayer. 4. Affords a fixed ground for the exercise of faith. 5. Emboldens supplication. 6. Inspires hope of a definite response. (G. G. Ballard.) Parallel Verses KJV: And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; WEB: This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;