PRAYER TO GOD TO BE FRUITFUL (COL 1: 9-14)

PRAYER TO GOD TO BE FRUITFUL (COL 1: 9-14):

Apostle Paul writes that because of the love of Colossians in Spirit, since the day they heard about that they have not stopped praying for them and asking that they may be filled with the full knowledge of God’s will with respect to all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that they might live in a manner worthy of the Lord and be fully pleasing to him as they bear fruit while doing all kinds of good things and growing in the full knowledge of God. Apostle Paul and many other apostles have appreciated and acknowledged the love of the believers that is explicit because of the transformation after receiving Jesus. Apostle Paul encourages and seeks God for those who abide in the lord by having love in Spirit so that the believers would follow the commandments of God to the fullest and know the things that are pleasing and perfect according to God’s purpose and plan. God’s purpose and plan could be known only through the right belief in the right God through which the wisdom and discretion of God could be gained. The Apostle Paul not only prays for the well-being of believers and thank God because of their characteristics but also prays that they may be beneficial to others as useful vessels of God through their life, doing good for the welfare of the people around them as they continuously know and grow in God in their life day by day.

Apostle Paul also writes that they are being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that they might patiently endure everything with joy and might thank the Father, who has enabled them to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light. Apostle Paul completely depends on God for the believers to gain their strength in the Lord and sustain in Godly principles so that they would be able to abide in God. They also shall find real and long-lasting joy, thanking God by knowing God’s work in their life. God revealed Himself to those who seek Him and integrates people with one another in Him as everyone has the common identity as children of God when they accept Him.

Apostle Paul further writes to Colossians that God had rescued them from the power of darkness and had brought them into the kingdom of the Son whom He loves, through whom He had redemption, the forgiveness of sins. The believers are saved from the glitches of sins and the things that make a person gets addicted or afflicted, and they are brought into the Kingdom of God which is led by the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The unity of the Father and Son is great that the love of God is with the Son, through whom the restoration of the whole mankind is given and the freeness from sins is made.

Stimulations for Self-Reflection:

1.      What Apostle Paul had not stopped doing? Why?

2.      What does Apostle Paul pray for?

3.      What is the expectation of Apostle Paul in prayer?

4.      What the Colossian believers are strengthened with?

5.      Why the Colossian believers were strengthened with God’s glorious might?

6.      How God the Father had enabled us to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light?

7.      From what God has rescued us? How?

8.      Where God has brought into? How?

9.      What is there in the Son? How?

10.  How we can bear fruits and do good?

11.  How we can always be dependent on God?