Dear Pray-ers.

Remember James 5:16b and all of Jesus’ promises of answered prayer.

Paul prayed for the Colossian Christians. We can identify his prayer concerns and we can pray them for our brother and sister Christians, and our churches, in this region.

Colossians 1:9-14

9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Let’s pray, without stopping, with Paul:

  • That God may fill the people of our churches with the knowledge of His will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives
  • That our people might live lives worthy of the Lord and pleasing to Him in every way
  • That our people and churches might bear fruit in every good work
  • That our people might grow in the knowledge of God
    • And be strengthened with all power according to His glorious might
    • So that they might have great endurance and patience
  • That our people and churches might give joyful thanks to the Father
    • Because they share in the inheritance of His holy people in the Kingdom of Light
    • (And, if that is not true yet for some of our people, may it be true.)
  • For conversions: May many more people be rescued from the dominion of darkness and brought into the kingdom of Jesus, receiving from Him redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Thank you very, very, very, very much.

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