Thanksgiving and Prayer

I just started reading the book of Colossians today and could not be any more pumped about reading it. Paul wrote the book of Colossians and it was for the people of Colossae, the people of Colossae are models to how we should live our daily lives. I plan on sharing a little bit about thanksgiving and a little bit about prayer. The book of Colossians is a book that models what the gospel is and should always be like.

Colossians 1:3-6: We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God's people-the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world-just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard and truly understood God's grace.

One of the parts that really stick out to me is that part about how the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world-just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard and truly understood God's grace. I fires me up to know that the gospel is always bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world since the day we first heard and understood God's grace. Reading that makes me want to spread the gospel to as many people as I can before I am no longer able to. It makes me want to not only spread the gospel but to spread love like wildfires.

Colossians 1:9-14: For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of the light. For he has rescued us from dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

That is such a beautiful prayer. That is may prayer for you as well.

There is a verse I want to close with is Colossians 1:29: To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me.

I like that because I want to be that for everyone I know. I will use all the time I have-whether I am full of energy or extremely tired from the business of life-I will use all the strength and power that God gives me to encourage you. I hope that you can take that to heart and try and do the same. The strength God gives us is incredible. If you have ever fully felt it when you needed it the most I am sure that you can attest to it as well.

~ you are loved ~