Relentlessly Gospel Focused

Paul's prayer request in Ephesians 6.19, demonstrates his relentless focus on the gospel. He asks the Ephesians to pray for him, not for safety (he is in jail when he writes), nor for health, nor for his needs to be provided, nor even to be released from prison!?! He asks them to pray that words may be given...to proclaim the mystery of the gospel. Now THAT is what I call being relentlessly focused on the ministry that God had given him. Not freedom, not safety, not protection, but words to preach. Remarkable.