Colossians 1: 13 “He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.”
Dear God,
Praise Your name for the promise of eternal life for all who accept You and do as asked of You. To assist us to do as asked, You teach us the ways of obedience and fill us with the Holy Spirit, who gives the gifts of discernment, wisdom, love, strength and power to walk Your way. Most righteous God keep us ever mindful that You have warned us that we are in the land of Satan, who has an agenda to give us misery and bring us down. All as if it came from You!
Paul always upheld the believers he knew, and his words reveal that he was able to stay on Your pathway even though to do so was not easy and often led to ridicule and persecution. He encouraged all believers to follow his way and so reap the Your promise of hope and the adverse times with rejoicing. He also wrote that results and any rewards as a Christian do not come without commitment on our part. Also that as believers in You, we should uphold, help and pray for others in the fellowship of faith of God. Paul and his associates gave all of us an example of nurturing and upholding others by giving thanks for the Colossians believers, as well as consistently praying for their spiritual victory.
Today I pray their prayer (Colossians 1: 9 – 14) for me and all my family and church members; that we all may be filled with the knowledge of Your will, in ‘all wisdom and spiritual understanding’. I pray also that my daily walk will be worthy to You and fruitful in ‘every good work and increasing in every good work.’ Strengthened by Your glorious power and might, so I (they) will have ‘all patience and long suffering with joy’, and in every circumstance giving thanks to our heavenly Father, who allows us to become ‘partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light’.
It is so wonderful, that we have been delivered from the power of Satan, who would have us eternally destroyed. V13 “He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.” It is Christ who has redeemed us through His blood.
Today, I choose You Jesus, as my Lord and Saviour and pray this for my family, friends and many other people, which include all who read these lines.
Amen