I think that the deepest thoughts of the heart of a spiritual person will come out in their prayer. Hear a person of God pray in private, and you hear the real person speaking. If you only knew what your dearest friend or spouse asks God to give you, then you would know what, in their opinion, is your greatest need. Oh, if we could just sometimes hear those who love us best, and those who know us best, pray for us, it would be a revelation of the greatest benefit for us. We would then see what, in their judgment, was our deficiency—what, in their estimation, is our greatest need. In the passage before us, we are entering the prison cell to hear the heartfelt prayer of the Apostle Paul as he prays for the Ephesians, the other churches and us.