Colossians – Prayer Power (notes)

Colossians - Prayer Power

Paul Was A Man Of prayer

• He doesn’t boast about his prayer life, it flows out of a man who understood the power of prayer.

Paul Loved

• The church and here he is so excited about hearing about the Colossians that he says he never stopped praying for them since the day he heard about them. Col. 1:9

Paul Prayed

That God would fill them with the knowledge of His will through all spiritual wisdom & understanding.

Paul Prayed

That they live a life worthy of the Lord and to please Him in every way, bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God.

Paul Prayed That

• They might have great endurance and patience.
• They might joyfully give thanks to the Father who had qualified them to share in the inheritance of the saints in the Kingdom of light.

What Is Our Inheritance?

1. Salvation.
2. Heaven.
3. Freedom from darkness.
4. Healing.
5. Renewed mind.
6. Transformation (gloriously).
7. Privilege to preach the Gospel.

Paul’s Revelation

Jesus rescued us from

• The dominion darkness and brought them into the Kingdom of the Son He loves. In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Jesus rescued us from the dominion of darkness

What we had?

1. A miserable life.
2. A life of despair.
3. A life of bondage.
4. An empty life.
5. A dark life.
6. A defeated life.

How We Come Into His Kingdom?

1. We are born of the Spirit.
2. We start to read about Him in His Word.
3. We develop relationships with other believers.
4. We share our faith with the lost.
5. We grow.
6. We serve in His church.

The Supremacy of Jesus

• He is the image of the invisible God.
• By Him all things were created.
• He is before all things and in Him all things hold together.
• He is the head of the body, the church.
• So in everything He might have the supremacy.

Jesus Contains All

• The fullness of God and by His death & resurrection He is able to reconcile all things.

What is all things?

• Everything man lost in the fall in the garden. The most important being our relationship with God.

Now

• He has reconciled us by His body through death to present us holy in His sight, without blemish and free from accusation, if we continue in our faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the Gospel.