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“For This Reason”
Prayer
If we are going to live out the Gospel, prayer must be an active part of our spiritual lives.
We cannot be arrogant that we begin to actually believe that we can do this in our own strength.
Paul lived and displayed this continuously.
Prayer is one way we show our dependency on God and not only that it is how we align ourselves with the will of God.
Listen, we do not simply want to have a thriving ministry.
That’s cool and all but that’s not the ultimate goal.
Our goal is simple, to be faithful.
God is doing something in the world, in state, and in our city.
We want to how God wants for us to operate in what He is doing.
We don’t just want to follow the latest trends and fads.
No, we want to align ourselves with His will and leave it at that, even if it boring and mundane at times.
Provision
Paul had just expressed his thankfulness at hearing that the gospel had taking root in Colossae (as it was all over).
His joy is in the fact that the power of God was in that place changing lives.
This produced a thankfulness but also a confidence in Paul.
And it is with this confidence that Paul prays.
When we go before God we must go believing in Him.
“What He Prayed”
that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
filled=full like eating/satisfied
with is will=”The ‘knowledge of God’s will’ is more than simply an insight into how God wants his people to behave: it is an understanding of God’s whole saving purpose in Christ, and hence (as in v. 10b) a knowledge of God himself.
N. T. Wright, Colossians and Philemon: An Introduction and Commentary, vol.
12, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1986), 61.
Wisdom and Spiritual understanding= For Christians to ‘grow up’ in every way will include the awakening of intellectual powers, the ability to think coherently and practically about God and his purposes for his people.
Paul never plays off spiritual life against intellectual understanding”.
N. T. Wright, Colossians and Philemon: An Introduction and Commentary, vol.
12, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1986), 62.
I Pete 3:15
Koine Greek
Christian Standard Bible (Chapter 1)
10 so that you may walk worthy ‹ of the Lord, › fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God,
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