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What strikes me as I read this passage is that words have power and Paul knows it.
He wants the Colossians to realize the importance of the power contained in their words.
What is the most powerful thing that anyone has ever said to you?
Maybe it was when your husband asked you to marry him.
Or, maybe for your husbands it was when you wives said “Yes.”
Those few words radically changed your life.
Those words started a chain of events that could not be turned back.
You bought a house, got a mortgage, had a few kids and owed so much money that you got really good at your job.
Words have power.
A jury pronounce a judgement and with the words guilty or not guilty radically determines a person’s course in life.
A doctor utters the word, “Cancer” and life is altered.
Maybe you heard a great teaching or a great speech that God used peak your interest in something that has become a passion or a career.
Words have power.
James and Peter were the main teaching pastors at the church in Jerusalem.
Look at how James pointed to the power of the tongue.
James 3:3-
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Now when we combine the power of the tongue with the importance of the of the Great Commission that Jesus left us to go make disciples of all nations, we get this question.
How should we be using our tongues to direct our lives in gospel purposes?
James 3:3-4
I. Let’s use our words to pray for gospel success.
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Gospel success really starts in the impact that the gospel has on our own hearts day after day.
How should you pray so that the gospel continues to bear fruit in your life?
A. Be faithful with your prayers.
Col. 2:
Our prayer lives should be an extension of our worship life, and our lives should be worship.
That’s why Paul exhorted them to “Continue steadfastly in prayer.”
So prayer is something that we must be faithful in doing.
It is something that we must give priority to in our lives.
It is something that we can’t stop doing because it is essential to our relationship with God and our purpose to glorify God and enjoy him.
The early church knew this and it is the way they prayed.
+Unfortunately, prayer tends to fall in the category of things that we occasionally do.
Kind of like working out for some of us.
We know that it’s good for us.
We feel good when we do it.
But it’s really just something that we do if have time, think about it, and are in the mood.
Crisis can bring us to prayer.
We get sick.
Someone we love gets hurt.
We pray and we ask others to pray.
Why do we have to go through crisis to recognize the importance of prayer?
Paul says “continue steadfastly in prayer...” (v.1) partly because everyday is a crisis for everyone.
Everyday you need wisdom to live well, raise your family well, to influence others who need you well.
When we recognize how much we need Jesus everyday, we will prioritize a quite time and constant communion with God during the day.
Use your words to faithfully pray.
B. Be watchful with your prayers.
(Col.
4:2b)
Col. 2
*Don’t let the only things you say to Jesus be crises requests.
The Bible tells us to “watch and pray” on several occasions.
The first time we see it is when Nehemiah was building the walls around Jerusalem facing enemies who wanted to destroy them.
Jesus used the phrase when he talked about the return of Christ and judgment day.
It is primarily used warning about coming of temptation.
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Paul would put it like this.
+ What motivates us to pray more than anything else.
I think trials do.
Algebra tests and loosing a job and family problems.
Trials get us to pray.
Why?
Because we are deeply concerned about ourselves and the people we love.
But if we really understood what we should be concerned about.
Holiness would be high on that list.
There are a lot of things that capture our thoughts more than a desire for holiness.
Spurgeon once said, “Earnest Christian men are not so much afraid of trials as they are of temptations.
The great horror of a Christian is sin.”
“Earnest Christian men are not so much afraid of trials as of temptations.
The great horror of a Christian is sin.”
1400Earnest Christian men are not so much afraid of trials as of temptations.
The great horror of a Christian is sin.—15.653
Paul calls us to watchful because our holiness is at stake.
You have an enemy.
Spurgeon, C. H., & Carter, T. (1995).
2,200 quotations : from the writings of Charles H. Spurgeon : arranged topically or textually and indexed by subject, Scripture, and people (Trade pbk.
ed., p. 203).
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.
The goal of your enemy is not to make your life more difficult through trials.
His goal is to destroy you through sin.
+So when you wake up in the morning, think to yourself, where is your heart most vulnerable?
What sins have you been struggling with?
Are you going to encounter someone today that you know has the potential to get under your skin?
Be watchful and pray about it then.
Are you going to be with people that you are going to be willing to gossip with?
Prepare your heart in the morning.
Are you dating and you know that you are going to face temptations to let things go a little farther physically than you should?
You prepare for that moment before you get there.
Be watchful.
There is a lion that wants to destroy you.
C. Be thankful with your prayers.
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One of the best ways to destroy selfishness and to cultivate humility is to strive for a thankful heart.
Prayer will lead us to the blessing of God.
So we need to be as diligent in thanking God for his blessings and answered prayer as we expect God to be about answering our prayers.
You don’t want to be he guy who is always asking for stuff but never acknowledging it and being thankful when he is blessed.
No one likes that guy.
Have you ever met anyone who didn’t feel like they had anything to be thankful for?
It’s not because they don’t have anything to be thankful for.
It’s usually because one thing that they wanted didn’t go the way they wanted.
So, now they are not going to be thankful for anything.
Let me remind you of something.
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