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Open your Bibles once more to
Paul's epistle to the Colossians. Colossians chapter 1, verses
9 through 14 this morning. Colossians chapter 1, beginning
with verse 9. For this reason also, since the day we heard
of it, we have not ceased to pray for you, and to ask that
you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual
wisdom and understanding, so that you may walk in a manner
worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing
fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of
God, strengthened with all power according to His glorious might
for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience, joyously giving
thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the
inheritance of the saints in light. For He delivered us from
the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved
Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Father,
we ask that you would open this passage to us. Show us this morning,
not only what Paul was saying to the Colossian Church, but
what you are saying to us. We ask this in the name of your
Son, our blessed Savior and Lord. Amen. Once upon a time, at a prayer
meeting, A member requested prayer for another member who was described
as a woman who was having a difficult time and feeling just miserable. And so a brother stood, volunteering
to take that request, and that day fervently prayed, oh God,
bless this miserable woman. I don't know if that's the pattern
we want to adopt for our own prayers. I don't think that's
a prayer we need to emulate, but it does raise a question
for us, exactly how are we to pray for one another? How are
you to pray for me and me to pray for you? How are we specifically
to pray for the body of Christ, for our brothers and sisters?
Paul provides us with an answer to that question in the passage
this morning. Verses 9 through 14 of Colossians chapter 1 is
Paul's prayer on behalf of the Colossian church. And we would
do well as we pray for one another to emulate what Paul prays in
this passage. Let's take a look at this piece
by piece. The first thing we want to look at is Paul's motivation
for praying. Now, we know that Paul prayed
all the time. He was a praying man, for we
read his prayers in almost everything he writes. You read through his
epistles, and you see written into the epistles his prayers
for the churches. We see Paul accomplishing things
that no one could accomplish unless they were men of prayer.
Paul evangelized most of the known world. He wrote most of
the New Testament. He discipled men and women and
placed them in positions of authority in the churches. He could not
have done all that he did without being a man of prayer. And we
can be sure that when the apostle tells his readers to pray without
ceasing, he was doing the same thing. He was following his own
admonition. But what is it specifically that
has occasioned this particular prayer here in the epistle to
the Colossians? We find the answer in the very
first words of verse 9, where Paul says, for this reason also,
since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for
you. For this reason also. Logical
question is, what reason is that? give you a little class in biblical
interpretation. When you see some phrase like
that, for this reason, you go back and you read the passage
that just came before it because that's what he's talking about.
For what reason? Well, it's what I just told you.
Have you forgotten already? For this reason. What did Paul
say in this passage that he just spoke of? Well, we saw last week
that Paul was thankful for two things. That's what we see in
verses 1 through 8. Paul's being thankful first for
the Colossians themselves. and for the faith and love and
hope that was present in them and being developed in them.
The second thing Paul was thankful for was the gospel, because Paul
knew that it was the power of the gospel that developed the
faith and the love and the hope in the Colossians. It was the
power of the gospel that brought them to Christ in the first place
and made them capable of the kind of faith, love, and hope
that Paul was talking about. And so when we come to verse
nine and read, for this reason also, we know what Paul's talking
about. Because of your reception of the gospel and the work with
which it is working in you, in joy and gratitude, I'm moved
to pray for you. And so the question comes to
us then, what is our prayer motivated by? Go back and think through your
prayers recently. What has motivated you to pray?
Maybe it's a real tough situation that's occurring in your life
right now. Maybe it's things you want. Maybe it's just obligation. Well,
you know, I'm a Christian, so I gotta spend some time in prayer. There's no joy in it. There's
no desire in it. It's just something I've got
to do. That wasn't Paul's motivation for prayer at all. Paul's motivation
for prayer came out of what he saw God doing in the lives of
his people. And Paul rejoiced it. Paul was
overflowing with gratitude for what he saw God doing in his
people, and that drove him to his knees because he wanted to
see more of it. And he says, God, this is great.
I love what you're doing here. Do more. I want to see some more. Glean more fruit from these people.
They're yours. That was his motivation for prayer. Would be to God that our prayer
is motivated by the work of God and his people and our rejoicing
in what he's doing. Our hearts could be that sensitive
to the work of God that full of gratitude for his work in
someone else, not necessarily our own. That's easy. God, I
just, I am so grateful for what you've done for me. And that
doesn't, that's not hard at all. The harder part is developing
the kind of a sensitive spirit and heart in which you are grateful
for what God is doing in other people's lives. And that being
a spur and motivation for your prayer. That's what Paul was
motivated. The next thing we see in the
passage is the duration of Paul's prayer. We see in the motivation of Paul's
prayer, what God's doing in the lives of the Colossian church.
But after the motivation, we see a time element, the duration
of Paul's prayer. He's not one who shoots up a,
Lord, bless these people. And that's the extent of his
prayer. How does Paul pray for the Colossians? He says that
he has been praying since the day we heard of it, and that
they have not ceased until the very time that he wrote this
epistle. And we can be sure that Paul's prayers continued even
after this epistle was sent. So what do we see about this
duration of Paul's prayer? What did he hear of? that caused
him to pray for the Colossians. Well, once again, we go back
to what he's just written about the work of God and the Colossians
through the gospel. And from the very time that Paul
heard the gospel, was preached, and took root in Colossae, he
was praying for the believers in that city. If you remember
from last week, Paul did not personally plant the church in
Colossae. Those whom Paul had evangelized and then discipled
went back to their hometown of Colossae, and they planted the
church. Epiphras. Philemon. Those are the people
who planted the church. Paul had probably never even
been there to this point. And yet, when he hears that the
gospel had taken root, that there was a church there in Colossae,
there were believers gathering together, from that point on,
he's praying for them. He considers them part of his
apostolic charge. because those whom he had brought
to Christ had planted this church, and he felt responsible for them.
And so from the very first moment that he hears of believers in
that city, he's praying. And now reports come of their
faith and their love and their hope, and he is spurred on to
continue to uphold them in prayer, because as we will see, God is
answering those prayers. So from the very first, Paul
prays. But his prayer isn't a one-line deal. He doesn't say that I prayed
for you when I heard that you had believed in the gospel and
gee, I hope things are okay. What he says is that he has not
ceased to pray since that day. He is a man who is going to knock
on the gate of heaven until his requests are answered. Here is
a man who will pray with perseverance. Here is a man who will not forget
his brethren, even though he has never met them face to face.
most of them. There is still that bond in Christ
that is driving him to his knees. Here is a man who understands
the power and the importance of prayer. Now I want you to
think of something this morning. Do you in any measure at all
reflect in your own prayer life Paul's perseverance? Do you pray
without ceasing for anything? Think about it. What is the thing
that you have prayed about the longest? For many of us, it would
be unsaved loved ones. There are people in our families
that we have been praying about for years. That's praying without
ceasing. It's praying perseveringly. For
others, I know it must be family members who have walked away
from Christ. And we are pounding on the gates of heaven, praying,
Lord, bring them back. Bring them back. And we will
not stop until God answers those prayers. For others, I have no doubt you
can't think of anything that you pray for continually, because
you don't really pray about much of anything to begin with. Maybe you think prayer is like
so much of our culture today. If it doesn't come easy, and
if it doesn't come right away, then it's not going to come.
And so we'll just give up on it. That's not how Paul prayed,
certainly. Paul didn't think that way. Paul
prayed without ceasing over what was surely a period of years.
And during that time, he probably didn't have any idea what was
going on in Colossae. There was no postal service.
There are no telephones. There's certainly no email. Abraham didn't pray that way. He didn't think that way. He
and Sarah prayed for a child for decades before God answered their prayers.
And when he finally did answer their prayers, it was past the
time anyone would ever expect the prayer to be answered. You
don't expect a 100-year-old man to be fathering a child. And yet, that's when God chose
to do it. But we live in a microwave society.
I want it now, and I want it my way. Don't try to put God on your
timetable, because your timetable is undoubtedly wrong. God knows
much better. We need to understand what Paul
understood. Our prayers need to be in line with the will of
God. not our own will. We need to be praying for those
things that God wants to bring about and continue to pray whether
or not we see God working. You do realize, don't you, that
whether or not you think God is doing anything has no bearing
at all on the reality of the situation. God is not obligated
to check in with you and let you know, here's how I'm going
to answer your prayer. He's God. He has no obligation
to you whatsoever. Anything He gives to you is grace. Let's keep things in perspective.
He doesn't have to let us in on His plans or on His actions. And that might make it harder
to persevere in prayer. But there is something to keep
in mind that will make it easier again. It's a rhetorical question,
and it's given to us in Genesis chapter 18, verse 25. And it's
a question I keep coming back to again and again when I have
no idea what God's doing, when I don't understand it. And it's
simply this. Shall not the judge of all the
earth deal justly? in other translations, will not
the judge of all the earth do what is right? And the obvious
implied answer is, of course he will. Of course he will. And it doesn't
matter if we see it or not, and it doesn't matter whether or
not we understand it, God will do what is right. And so we keep
praying. Whether we see anything happening
or not, we persevere in prayer just as Paul. And so we'd see Paul's motivation.
He saw what God was doing in the Colossian church. We see
the duration of his prayer. It was without ceasing, constantly
beating at the doors of heaven, praying for the Colossian church. And finally, we're going to spend
most of our time this morning, the composition of Paul's prayer.
What was it exactly that Paul prayed for? And I think we can
break it down into two major components. First is the prayer
for knowledge, verse 10. We see that, verse 9 rather,
for this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not
ceased to pray for you. And what did he ask? And to ask
that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will. That's what Paul was praying
for, knowledge. It's interesting that Paul prayed
for the Colossians' knowledge. Remember what we said yesterday?
What caused Paul to respond to the Colossian church in the way
he does? There was a crisis going on in the Church of Colossians.
People called the Gnostics were coming in. And they were saying,
you simple little Christians are OK, but we've got something
much better. We've got this secret knowledge
that you need to have and that only we can give you. We can
initiate you into the true mysteries of the faith. And they were called
Gnostics because they claimed to have this secret knowledge.
And so what's Paul's prayer for the Colossians then? He goes
right to the point of contention. I'm praying for knowledge for
you, but true knowledge, not the Gnostics' false knowledge.
I want you to have true knowledge. They were teaching that Christ
was a good place to start, but that there was so much more that
they could know and experience. And some had fallen for this.
And so Paul's prayer that they be filled with knowledge hit
the problem facing the Colossians right on the head. And knowledge
is a good thing. Some people don't believe that.
Warren Wearsby says that he once heard a preacher say, I didn't
never go to school. I'm just an ignorant Christian.
And I'm glad I is. To which Worsby comments, a man
does not have to go to school to gain spiritual intelligence,
but neither should he magnify his ignorance. We are to have knowledge. We're
told throughout the scripture that we are to know the word
of God. We are to know God himself. We
are to know Christ. We are to know the spirit. We
are to know how they work. We're to know all of these things.
and that knowledge that we are to have comes through the scripture.
The scripture is going to provide the knowledge that in turn will
produce what Harry Blamire calls the Christian mind, that which
is trained and disciplined to handle life in a framework of
Christian presuppositions. How do you respond to the events
in your life that come to you? Is your instinctual response,
is the training of your mind such that you will respond in
a Christ-like manner? or do you have to sit down and
think about it? How does a Christian respond
to this? Having a Christian mind, trained and disciplined by the
word of God, is a mind that instinctually knows the mind of Christ. Events
come, and the first impulse. is the biblical impulse, because
we are so saturated with the word of God and the knowledge
of who Christ is and how he works and what his priorities are,
that that becomes our first impulse. That's where we want to get to.
It's a growing process. No doubt, and it's a process
we'll be going through until the day we stand before him in
his throne room. But that's the direction of our
lives. That's where we want to go. And
so Paul prays for the Colossians. God, give them knowledge. The
knowledge of what? What is this knowledge that we're
to pray for? What is there that the Colossians should know? And
Paul tells us, Paul prays that the Colossians would be filled
with the knowledge of what? His will. Now, this could be
a sermon series unto itself, and I don't doubt that one day
it will be. What is this will of God, and how do we know it?
Well, I just want to say that we gain the knowledge that God
wants us to possess through scripture. I'll say that again. We gain
the knowledge God wants us to possess through scripture. Now,
you mean, some of you might be thinking to yourself, the scripture
is going to tell me what job to take? Scripture's going to
tell me what school I should send my kids to, who and when
I should get married. Scripture's going to tell me
where and when I should move. Scripture's going to tell me
what ministry I should be involved in. How does Scripture do all
those specific things? Of course, the answer is it doesn't,
because that's not what Paul's talking about. When the scripture
talks about knowing the will of God, the scripture is not
talking about knowing specific things about your life ahead
of time. If that's the way you're thinking
about the will of God, then you're not thinking about it biblically.
Notice how Paul describes the will of God. Paul speaks of the
will of God as that which is in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And that gives us a big clue
right there as to what the will of God is. When the scripture
talks about the will of God, it does not refer to specific
future decisions that we are to make. You will look through
the scriptures in vain for someone getting on their knees and asking
God to tell them what they're supposed to do tomorrow. It's
not there, and we're never told to do that. That kind of thinking
only brings anxiety. What am I gonna do here? What
does God want me to do? I'm looking for signs, I'm looking for feelings,
I'm looking for all this. Scripture never promises that.
The scripture has very few times when it tells us precise, when
it tells a person precisely what that person is to do in the future.
And every time it happens, it comes as a result of an angelic
visitation, Right? Christ appearing himself. Some
kind of supernatural thing that is never, ever mistaken for anything
else. That's what we see in scripture.
So if an angel comes and talks to you and tells you what you're
supposed to do tomorrow, you have two things to do. Make sure
it's the right kind of angel and then do it. But it's never happened to me.
And it doesn't happen all that often, even in the scriptures.
What we see in the scripture is a pattern of knowing what
God wants us to do in broad, general terms, according to the
scripture, being obedient to the scripture, and then everything
else falling into place. God is a sovereign God, and he
knows exactly what you're going to do tomorrow. And if you are obeying the scriptures,
He is going to put you exactly where He wants you, so you can
do exactly what He wants you to do. That's a biblical view
of determining the will of God. Don't look for feelings. It might
be the pepperoni pizza you had last night. You can't rely on
that. You can rely on the Word of God. Come with me back to Romans chapter
12 and verse 2, and we'll see a little bit more of this. Romans
chapter 12 and verse 2. Many of you are familiar with
it. Paul's admonition says, do not be conformed to this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind That you may prove
what the will of God is. Some translations don't make
it this clear, but this is how it should read. That you may
prove what the will of God is. And then Paul defines the will
of God for us. That which is good and acceptable
and perfect. Moral qualities. Righteous qualities. Now, come back to our passage
in Colossians and look at the context in which Paul speaks
of the will of God. Why is it that we need to know
the will of God? We're told we do need to know
that. We have to have a knowledge of his will and all spiritual
wisdom and understanding why. Look at those first words of
verse 10. So that, okay, here's the reason
coming. You need to know his will so
that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord. It's a moral
quality. You need to know His will so
that your conduct will be what it should be. Not so that you'll
know what you're supposed to do when these decisions face
you, so that you can live godly in Christ Jesus. That's why you
need to know the will of God, which goes right along with what
Paul said in Romans 12, 2. It's the will of God, that which
is good, that which is acceptable, that which is perfect. Righteousness,
in other words. We need to know the will of God
so that our conduct will be what God desires. The will of God,
then, consists of that moral law which is to govern the child
of God. If that's your focus, then everything
else is going to be okay. God will put you where he wants
you to be. Your responsibility is to seek to obey and to glorify
him. And that's exactly what Jesus
said. If you don't know it from the scripture, you should know
it from the song. Seek ye first the kingdom of God. I hope you
know it from the scripture before you know it from the song. Seek
ye first the kingdom of God, and what? His righteousness.
And once you've done that, then what's going to happen? Then
all these things will be added unto you. That's the priority. Don't worry about all the stuff
in life. Worry about righteousness. Worry about living godly in Christ
Jesus. That's what Paul is praying for
on behalf of the Colossians. Typically, when we pray for ourselves
or for others, we pray for physical health, we pray for well-being,
we pray for social relationships, we pray for spiritual growth.
But part of our intercessory prayer ought to be for the knowledge
of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. I beg
you to pray that for me, and I'll pray that for you, because
we need it. We need to know how to conduct
ourselves. We need to know how to walk worthy. It's interesting that the next
thing Paul prays about is, in fact, their conduct. Here's what
it leads into. We've seen Paul's prayer about
knowledge, and now we see Paul's prayer about conduct. And the
first thing he prays about is a worthy walk. Give them this
knowledge of your will, Father, so that they may walk in a manner
worthy of you. The Hebrews saw an absolute connection
between knowledge and conduct. There was no getting around it.
And since Paul was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, it's not surprising
that we find him making that connection. Paul knew that true
spiritual knowledge leads into action. You can't separate them. If you do, you're living an unbalanced
life. Because there is the possibility of having a dangerous, unbalanced
dichotomy. There's a tendency that we see
around us for people of knowledge to be very passive in their activity,
and the reverse tendency for people of action to neglect the
pursuit of knowledge. And both of those things are
wrong and unbalanced. Let me mention an example. On
the one hand, you have the ignorant man who is zealous for souls.
But all he knows is enough to take a rabbit trail through the
scripture from this verse to that verse to this verse to communicate
a presentation of the gospel. But woe to him if a question
is raised that doesn't fall within his program. He has no thought through answers
of his own. He'll just keep going at it.
A lot of questions are no different in this respect from Jehovah's
Witnesses. You'll have them come and knock on your door and they'll
give you their spiel. You ask about something that's
not included in the program, and they've got to go run back
and talk to one of their elders. They're lost. Christians, by
and large, are not much different. We go through the four spiritual
laws of the Roman's road, and we know those key verses, maybe,
if we're involved in witnessing at all. But you get away from
the basics, and we're lost. that knowledge needs to be there.
On the other hand, you have the contemplative scholar filled
with knowledge who has never led a person to Christ in his
life. Neither of those extremes were
meant to be. There is a balance. There's one reason that I admire
the reformers and the Puritans. They were scholars of the first
order, but they put their knowledge to work among the people of God. Martin Luther produced incredible
amount of scholarly writing. I think his works total 50-some
volumes. And yet, he was a pastor. All
his life, from leaving the monastery on, he pastored a church. And he taught people and discipled
people. And he taught other churches
how to do church in a reformed way. And he did all of it at
the same time he was being a scholar, and translating the New Testament
into German, and doing all this amazing production. That's the example that we need
to follow. We need to understand the word,
and we need to know it, and we need to love it. We need to be
able to use it. But we need to use it, too. The ability to use
it doesn't take us far enough. and we can't be satisfied in
constant action. The Lord says, be still and know
that I'm God. Stop. You cannot be effective in your
ministry if you don't know the word. It's a two-edged sword. And you've got to have both of
those things working together. Profound knowledge should profoundly
affect one's walk. Paul prayed that the Colossians
would walk their talk, that their knowledge would grow and produce
a conduct worthy of the Lord, pleasing him in all respects,
the text says. And that's how we should pray
for our brothers and sisters. What then is the result of this
worthy walk? Verse 10 says it's bearing fruit in every good work. It's not only to be a worthy
walk, it's also to be a knowledgeable walk. He comes back to the same
theme once again. Bearing fruit in every good work,
verse 10, and increasing in the knowledge of God. This is what
Paul asked for at the beginning of his prayer. Why does he mention
it again? Because he wants to stress this so much. this dynamic
connection between action and knowledge. One begetting the
other, and the other begetting the first again, and it becomes
this wonderful upward spiral. The more one truly serves, the
more one knows. And the more one knows, the more
one wants to serve. And it feeds on itself, that's
how it works. That's what we need to have. We see also praise for a powerful
walk in verse 11. He prays that they be strengthened
with all power. And the power which Paul prayed
upon the church is immense, because when he says that they might
be strengthened, he wants this to happen continuously. It's
not a one-time thing, where you're strengthened and that's it, and
we let it go. But it's a continuous strengthening. It's a continuing
filling of the spirit over and over and over again so that we
might be empowered for service. And the strengthening, look at
this, is on God's own scale. He prays that they might be strengthened
with all power according to His glorious might. And I hope you've
picked up this point as we worked our way through the Beatitudes.
The power which is necessary to do that which God calls us
to is not found within us. You hear a lot of people telling
you that all that you need is inside yourself. Well, that's
just not true. Inside yourself is sin and weakness. The power that Paul prays for,
for the Colossians, comes not from us, but from God. It is
to be found according to His glorious might. God gives us
His power to accomplish His task. His glorious might. You don't
have the power to develop this kind of steadfastness and patience
that he's talking about here. He wants them empowered with
the power of God so that they might attain steadfastness and
patience. You can't develop those qualities
in yourself. Not the qualities in the way
that Paul's talking about them, but God can. He gives you the
power to do that. And we should be praying for
our brothers and sisters that God would develop it in them.
I pray that because, frankly, being your pastor, I need you
to demonstrate steadfastness and patience. I will be the beneficiary
of those qualities. And so I'm going to continue
to pray for these things for you. And I hope you do the same
for me. Finally, Paul says, I'm praying
for you, that you would have a thankful walk. How else do
we walk worthy? We walk worthy by giving thanks,
verse 12. Joyously give thanks. I pray that you'll be strengthened
with all power according to his glorious might, so that you'll
be steadfast and patient, and so that you will joyously give
thanks to the Father. That's the summit of the prayer.
Everything points toward that. Everything in our lives should
move toward thankfulness. thanking God in all things. We cannot walk worthy of God
without constantly giving joyous thanks. Believers who walk worthy
of Christ constantly give thanks to God for what? For their salvation.
We call this three specific reasons here. We give thanks to the Father
who has first qualified us. to share in the inheritance of
the saints in the kingdom of life. That's a present and a
future reality. This is the work that God has
done in us, presently. He has qualified us. We stand
today, if we have trusted in Christ as our savior, qualified
for the kingdom of God. Isn't that great? We are qualified to step into
the kingdom of God, to share in the inheritance of the saints.
so that if we were to be called home today, we're qualified. That's called assurance. Many
people don't have that, but Christians have it. If we have trusted in
Christ as our savior, then we have that assurance that our
home is in heaven, not here. We are not citizens of this place,
and we don't have to keep working and struggling in order to obtain
God's favor. God has already given us his
favor through his mercy and his grace. and we are prepared for
the kingdom. What else has he done? He has
rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us to
the kingdom of his beloved son. That's what's qualified us. He
has plucked us up out of the kingdom of darkness and he said,
okay, you're moving over here now. You're in the kingdom of
my son, whom I love. And you're identified with him.
And that's a demonstration of the fact that God loves you too.
He has changed you. He has made you alive. He has
regenerated you. All these terms that scripture
uses to describe the simple fact that once you were dead and on
your way to hell, Christ, God has reached down and he has made
you alive through the work of Christ and he's put you into
the kingdom of his beloved son and he's giving you a home in
heaven. That's what we are to be thankful
for. And finally, we're to be thankful because we have redemption
in Christ, the forgiveness of sin, the sin which made all this
necessary to begin with, the sin which killed us spiritually
and made it necessary for Christ to come and give himself for
us on the cross, made it necessary for God to regenerate us, made
it necessary for God to pluck us out of darkness and put us
into his kingdom. All that has been redeemed. We
have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Christ died on the cross
and redeemed us. He gave us over into the hands
of the Father through his work on the cross. These are amazing
things that God has done for us, and our thankfulness should
be constantly overflowing as we meditate on it. Interceding
for other Christians is one of the most important ministries
that we have been given. I ask you covenant this morning
to pray for both the knowledge and the conduct of your brothers
and sisters in Christ. A church that is growing in the
knowledge of Christ and in his will and is walking worthy of
him will do great things. So let us commit this morning
to sensitive, fervent intercession on behalf of our church family.
Let's pray together. Father God, thank you. for this
wonderful example of prayer that we have from your apostles. Father, may your spirit burden
us with the need to pray for one another, and to pray for
one another along the lines that Paul does, that we might give
thanks, that we might be filled with the knowledge of your will,
and that we might walk worthy of you. That is our prayer, Father. We pray in the name of Christ,
our Savior. Amen. Please open your hymnals
to number 349, 349. Stand together as we sing. O Christ, my Savior, live in
me from day to day. I His love and power
controlling, all I do and say. the Word of God dwell richly
in my heart from hour to hour, so that all may see I triumph
only through His power. May the peace of God, my Father,
rule my life in everything, that I may be calm to comfort sick
and sorrowing. fill me as the waters fill the
sea. Dream exalting, self-fulfilling,
this is me. Now to him who is able to keep
you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the
presence of his glory, blameless, with great joy. To the only God
our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty,
dominion, and authority before all time and now and forever. Amen.
Paul's Prayer for the Colossians
Series Colossians
| Sermon ID | 96171124220 |
| Duration | 41:42 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday Service |
| Bible Text | Colossians 1:6-14 |
| Language | English |
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