Things We May Ask God For

 

Things We May Ask God For

Colossians 1:9-15

If you ever wonder how early believers prayed and how we may still pray today with confidence that God hears and will answer, the following was designed to assist our prayer experience with these goals in mind.

¨     Pray for your church to flourish under the Father’s care, administration, and leadership (Col. 1:9-15)

o   May we be controlled and filled with an awareness of your will and plan

o   Please fill us with your wisdom and holy understanding of your plans

o   Help us to live in a manner worthy of you and pleasing to you

o   Enable us to be fruitful and productive in many areas of honest ministry

o   May we increase in our perception and openness to you—growing in our knowledge of you

o   Strengthen us deep within in every way by your might and glorious power

o   May we mature in the various forms of patience, long suffering, and joy despite provocation

o   Thank you for the honor of sharing in your inheritance treasure comprised of your children walking in holy light

o   Thank you for our deliverance from the power of darkness and our translation into the authority and kingdom of Jesus Christ your Son

o   Thank you for the redemption and forgiveness we enjoy because of the blood of Christ at Calvary

o   Thank you for defining your likeness through Jesus Christ, the supreme leader of all creation

Beloved, this is an example of using the Scriptures as we pray and beg for God’s involvement and a demonstration of us pleading for His wise plan to be executed each day. To be His servants involves some awareness of His plans. However, to be His ‘friend’ requires complete awareness and participation in His purpose and plans daily.