DETAILS: praying for one another
We should pray for one another...
Colossians 1:3-11 shows us in much greater detail how we should relate to one another in prayer. 1. We are to be thankful for the faith that we find in one another...we are to be thankful for the changed life that we see growing before our eyes. 2. We are to ask God to to help one another to understand what God wants them to do. 3. We need to pray for spiritual wisdom for each one, 4. we are ask for God's help for them to continue to live for Christ by giving them a reassuring knowledge of Him in their own life. 5. We also need to continuously pray for strength and endurance for all of us to remain thankful for the many things that God gives to us everyday.
From the very start this has been a journey for all of us to want to be drawn closer to God, and prayer is I believe the key to that. We have to be praying the right kinds of prayer however, and not just a rote insensitive kind of prayer...not a grocery list kind of prayer or something that we memorize. God wants to have a complete relationship with us...He wants to hear our thoughts and dreams as well as our praise. God wants us to feel open enough to share our frustrations with Him over things in this life, but also the victories and the fears that we have going into something with blind faith walks. God knows our every weakness, but He wants for us to be able to trust and to believe in His word to us. I believe that He wants to communicate with us personally, and lead us by reading His word to us.
God's word has been perfect for me throughout my life, and in every situation I have been in His word has always had the answer for me...now I have not always followed His word, and there are times I even tried to hide from His word; but that truth has always been there to guide me back to Him when I would allow it to. That is the reason I can trust in the word of God so completely because I have tested it for its validity, and like Paul I have found it to be truth. We should never feel that we are fighting alone. Our battles in this life change as we change. Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 "For though we live in this world we do not wage war as the world does; the weapons we fight with are not the weapons of this world". That tells me that we are no long fighting alone, but as a new creature together with our brothers and sisters. Prayer is a tool used to keep us strong and close to God in all ways, and it helps us to stay close together with one another as well. This world does not understand this nor can it ever understand the things of God's Kingdom; but we do because we have the truth of His word. We have great strength through these tools of prayer and the word of God; as well as Faith in God and one another. scripture goes on to say " On the contrary they have divine powers to demolish every stronghold we demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ, and we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience once our obedience is complete." There is no doubt that we have to do some purging personally before we can be effective in praying for one another, and it becomes the setting aside of self that is the biggest issue of loving someone else. It is my personal prayer that each of us can begin to see and act on the need to purge self from our lives in order to continue to strengthen the church. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
Colossians 1:3-11 shows us in much greater detail how we should relate to one another in prayer. 1. We are to be thankful for the faith that we find in one another...we are to be thankful for the changed life that we see growing before our eyes. 2. We are to ask God to to help one another to understand what God wants them to do. 3. We need to pray for spiritual wisdom for each one, 4. we are ask for God's help for them to continue to live for Christ by giving them a reassuring knowledge of Him in their own life. 5. We also need to continuously pray for strength and endurance for all of us to remain thankful for the many things that God gives to us everyday.
From the very start this has been a journey for all of us to want to be drawn closer to God, and prayer is I believe the key to that. We have to be praying the right kinds of prayer however, and not just a rote insensitive kind of prayer...not a grocery list kind of prayer or something that we memorize. God wants to have a complete relationship with us...He wants to hear our thoughts and dreams as well as our praise. God wants us to feel open enough to share our frustrations with Him over things in this life, but also the victories and the fears that we have going into something with blind faith walks. God knows our every weakness, but He wants for us to be able to trust and to believe in His word to us. I believe that He wants to communicate with us personally, and lead us by reading His word to us.
God's word has been perfect for me throughout my life, and in every situation I have been in His word has always had the answer for me...now I have not always followed His word, and there are times I even tried to hide from His word; but that truth has always been there to guide me back to Him when I would allow it to. That is the reason I can trust in the word of God so completely because I have tested it for its validity, and like Paul I have found it to be truth. We should never feel that we are fighting alone. Our battles in this life change as we change. Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 "For though we live in this world we do not wage war as the world does; the weapons we fight with are not the weapons of this world". That tells me that we are no long fighting alone, but as a new creature together with our brothers and sisters. Prayer is a tool used to keep us strong and close to God in all ways, and it helps us to stay close together with one another as well. This world does not understand this nor can it ever understand the things of God's Kingdom; but we do because we have the truth of His word. We have great strength through these tools of prayer and the word of God; as well as Faith in God and one another. scripture goes on to say " On the contrary they have divine powers to demolish every stronghold we demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ, and we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience once our obedience is complete." There is no doubt that we have to do some purging personally before we can be effective in praying for one another, and it becomes the setting aside of self that is the biggest issue of loving someone else. It is my personal prayer that each of us can begin to see and act on the need to purge self from our lives in order to continue to strengthen the church. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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