How do you answer the question, "How can I pray for you?" Often times we want to pray for someone but we don't know what to pray for them. So, we wind up praying general prayers.
Colossians 1:9--For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption,the forgiveness of sins.
This prayer is a powerful prayer. It has within it, the energy, strength, and authority of God. This based on our relationship with God. it's based on truth. We have the confidence that God will answer this prayer.
1. Knowledge of His will: Knowledge means more than just an idea. it means a fullness of the understanding of the will of God. This is not factual knowledge but experiential knowledge.
2. Walk worthy of the Lord: walking in a fashion that is in keeping with who we are.
3. Bearing fruit in every good work: this is a request for a wise investment for their life. Busy-ness is not good work and all works are not good works.
4. Increase in the knowledge of God: growing in the Lord. This is not just head knowledge. This is an experiential growth in the knowledge of God. As you increase in the knowledge of God, you will experience a new freshness, rejuvenation, energy, excitement about your life. The more you learn about the Lord, the more excited you get about praying. Sometimes pain is God's mechanism to bring you into an understanding of Him.
5. Strengthen with all power according to His might: we could not know who God is without the HS. Don't trust in your own strength. Be humbled and learn to trust in God. Don't do things in your own strength.
6. Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints.
God will answer this prayer. If we make any petition according to his will, he hears us. If we trust God with prayer, He will make a difference in someone's life.
Colossians 1:9--For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption,the forgiveness of sins.
This prayer is a powerful prayer. It has within it, the energy, strength, and authority of God. This based on our relationship with God. it's based on truth. We have the confidence that God will answer this prayer.
1. Knowledge of His will: Knowledge means more than just an idea. it means a fullness of the understanding of the will of God. This is not factual knowledge but experiential knowledge.
2. Walk worthy of the Lord: walking in a fashion that is in keeping with who we are.
3. Bearing fruit in every good work: this is a request for a wise investment for their life. Busy-ness is not good work and all works are not good works.
4. Increase in the knowledge of God: growing in the Lord. This is not just head knowledge. This is an experiential growth in the knowledge of God. As you increase in the knowledge of God, you will experience a new freshness, rejuvenation, energy, excitement about your life. The more you learn about the Lord, the more excited you get about praying. Sometimes pain is God's mechanism to bring you into an understanding of Him.
5. Strengthen with all power according to His might: we could not know who God is without the HS. Don't trust in your own strength. Be humbled and learn to trust in God. Don't do things in your own strength.
6. Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints.
God will answer this prayer. If we make any petition according to his will, he hears us. If we trust God with prayer, He will make a difference in someone's life.
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