Center Grace

So your experience of feeling exhausted sometimes when you pray, your experience matches what you study in scripture. It's a struggle. You know this Greek word, actually. We have it in English. The word is agonizomai. What word do you hear in that word? Agony. Did you know that in ancient Greece, in this day and age, a wrestling ring was called the agonai. Wrestlers were called antagonists. You hear the word agony. I only realized that this week as I was studying Greek. I was like, oh my goodness, the word agony is in the word antagonist. Literally, ant against agony. Antagonists. They're literally struggling against one another. That's what wrestlers do in the agony. And so when you go to prayer in intercession, you are in essence getting into a wrestling ring.