Good morning everyone! This week we will be reading the book of Colossians. It is only four chapters so we will stretch it to 5 and read Monday thru Friday. Thank you, Arlene, for posting this last week. I really appreciated Saturday's about the mouth and joy in our hearts. What is in our hearts does come out of our mouth's whether we want it to or not!
As I was reading the first chapter of Colossians I was wondering if there is anyone praying for our church like Paul and Timothy prayed for this church? And then I wondered who I should be praying for like Paul and Timothy?? And then I began to see that God has called each of us to love and care for someone else in the same way Paul and Timothy love and care for this church and the people in this church. We all have someone we are mentoring in some way and we need to keep our hearts open to those God sends our way so we can pray for them and encourage them just as Paul and Timothy do in this first chapter. "We always pray for you and give thanks to God.......For we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all of God's people...." What encouragement the people in that church must have felt when they read this letter. I believe we can encourage each other in the same way. For instance......"I am praying for you this week, that God will fill your mouth with His Word and your faith will be strong so you can minister to the people He sends your way......"
I like vs 9 and 10 "So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the wile, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better." Knowledge of His will gives us the ability to live our life to honor Him and produce fruit - every kind of good fruit!!! That's what I want. I tell you what - I will pray this prayer for you if you pray it for me!!!
Have a wonderful Monday.
2 comments:
Great question...is anyone praying for us like Paul & Timothy prayed for the people? I believe God has people, both within LCC and outside of LCC, praying for us corporately and individually...and we may or may not know until heaven who has been standing in the gap for us. A wonderful challenge to prayer, as well.
Verses 19 & 20 in the Message Remix bible ..."So spacious is he (Jesus), so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe – people and things, animals and atoms – get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross.”
We each have a place in Jesus …there’s no need for competition … there’s plenty of room. Everyone finds their proper place in Jesus. We fit together in harmony because of the blood of Jesus! And whatever is broken or dislocated in me/you is properly fixed -- not haphazardly fixed – but fixed correctly and completely. Even our broken economy is put back together in Him…not in Wall Street or the stimulus or anything we can do! We are not like Humpty Dumpty who could not be put back together again! Whenever we are broken or dislocated by hurts or lack or sadness or whatever, Jesus is well able to put us back together again!
I love your analogy to Humpty Dumpty. My grd daughter, Kenya, has a great version of that poem. "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses brought band aids and all the King's men brought medicine and put Humpty Dumpty together again." Must have had Jesus involved!!!
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