And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has 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. (Colossians 1:9-14 ESV)
The author of Colossians tells us as Paul does at the beginning of most of his letters that he is praying for the community. This letter says that from the day they heard that Christ/the Holy Spirit had come to them they were praying for them. Isn’t it a wonderful feeling to know that people are praying for you? Even if you don’t know it at the time, but find out later that people were praying for you during a time of trial, or just any time makes a sort of warm fuzzy feeling well up inside of you (at least it does me). And I believe that there are people praying for all of us every moment of every day. Anytime we pray that God’s will be done, we are praying for all of the children of God and all those who still are seeking where they belong… God is doing wonderful things in and through His people when they pray.
But then if others are praying for you, are you praying for others? And when you are praying for others how are you doing that? I mean really who qualified you to be able to pray in the first place?
Did you see what the author of Colossians said? “May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father,…” They are praying that the Lord would give the believers strength with power and might and that they might have endurance and patient in all things with joy and always giving thanks to God. Power, might, strength, endurance, patient, joy are wonderful attributes and are reasons to give God thanks, but the real reason in my mind is what follows this and this is also what qualifies you to be who you are and a child of God. “…who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has 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.” You see God, the Father, has qualified you to be a part of the inheritance, and He has delivered you from darkness and given you redemption and forgiven your sins!
He has qualified you to share the good news and to build up the saints!
So pray hard saint of God we all need it!
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