The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 345


The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 345


Colossians 1 New King James Version (NKJV)

Unceasing Prayer
9 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 conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

The Christ/Messiah – Meditation in The Wisdom and knowledge of God

What would be the prayer of the Apostle Paul for your church? Would or should it be any different than the one above of the Colossi church, or the Ephesian church? What? Have you not read and understood the other epistles of Paul? 1 Corinthians 1:4-9, Romans 1:8-12. In most every epistle the Apostle Paul prays for the Spiritual wisdom of these churches. So, what is important and what are we missing in churches today?

Do we not hear corporate prayer and are we not missing the mark? We want to say that we are spiritually minded in our prayer to God, but what does the Apostle James say? James 4:1-6, note James 4:5. I am not saying that we should not pray for Aunt Ethel’s ingrown toenail, but the main subject of all prayer to God must primarily be ‘spiritual wisdom’ increasing in the soul of every child of God.

Many of the children of God in our churches today do not have enough spiritual understanding to walk worthy in the LORD. We do not please the LORD with our prayers since many of us are not in the Spirit. We mingle about in the vestibule talking nonsense with one another. Sports, politics, and other subjects that cloud our minds. Then when it comes to prayer time, we quickly acknowledge our fleshly attitudes to God and expect the grace and mercy of God to cover us in the sacrificial work of Christ on our behalf. But do we continue to harbor a fleshly mind and set sail again as soon as the waters are stirred again after a church meeting of prayer ends?

James 3:14 CJB: But if you harbor in your hearts bitter jealousy and selfish ambition, don’t boast and attack the truth with lies!

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