Friday, June 12, 2020

Stay focused upon Christ and His will

Paul, in writing to those believers in Colosse, wanted to encourage them in their faith. They faced many challenges, as we do these days! What is a CHRISTian to do with so much uneasiness, so many challenges, so much evil, with so much anger on one side and apathy on the other?

Stay focused upon Christ and His will . . . . above all the other schemes and plans, we must put Him first!

For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lordfully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.(Colossians 1:9-14)
 Above all, WE, CHRIST followers, must put God and His For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and [c]conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption [d]through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. first! I will pray for you and I ask that you pray for me so WE, as a Body and as individuals will do just that!

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