Today's Passage: Colossians 2: 1-3

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 

Today's Prayer: 

We thank you that Paul was willing to struggle and intercede for your people in Laodicea, that they would grow up in the faith and come into a true knowledge of You.

Father, Paul speaks in this passage of the way we are meant to struggle and contend on behalf of those with whom you’ve placed us. 

So today, we sit in silence for a moment and ask your Holy Spirit to search our minds and imaginations for those you’ve entrusted into our care. As we move throughout today and the days we follow, we choose not to fall asleep to the people You’ve place around us. People who You will direct across our paths. Even now, allow names and faces to come to mind… Even now, would your Holy Spirit form prayers in us for those you’ve given into our care… Sons and daughters, parents, friends, colleagues, ministry partners…

God, we ask that their hearts would be encouraged. That you could knit them together in love… We ask that they would have an assurance of understanding that results in a full and deep and rich knowledge of the mystery that is You, Father! Oh God, Your Word says that wisdom and knowledge are treasures – and our deep desire is to possess them as gifts made available to us through Christ. 

Holy Spirit, as your new covenant people, we ask that you apply these treasures to our lives today. They are our inheritance, and we chose to possess them in all humility and gratefulness.

And it is in your name that we pray…Amen.

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