Colossians 1
Day 12 of 21 · 21 Days of Prayer
For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,
strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,
CONTEXT
Original word: συνέσει (sýnesis) · a mental putting together, i.e. intelligence or (concretely) the intellect
REFLECTION
Notice the words in Colossians 1:9: honest, simple, addressed to God.
PRAYER
Jesus, thank you that you pray for us. Help me pray for others today. Amen.
QUESTION
Who is praying in this passage, and why?
ONE ACTION TODAY
Pray Colossians 1:9 back to God in your own words.
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Source
World English Bible (Catholic). Public domain. Source: eBible.org (eng-web-c). "World English Bible" is a trademark of eBible.org: any text with altered wording is not called the World English Bible. Editorial rendering: in this app the divine name "Yahweh" is displayed and read aloud as "God" (and "Yahweh God" as "God"). The stored text and the imported source are unchanged; this is a display-layer substitution, not part of the translation.
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