This is how I'm praying for you

 

Colossians 1:9

I do not recall at anytime in my life when a person who was close to me, a friend, a family member, a pastor, a teacher said, this is how I’m praying for you; “that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding.”  That does not in anyway mean those listed above have not prayed in that manner for me, it is just that I do not recall anyone sharing those thoughts with me.  So today, if you are receiving this email, at least two people have prayed in this way for you, the apostle Paul and myself.

How will that prayer change your life?   First, let me be so bold to state that it is God’s will for each of us.  It is the heart of God that his children grow in knowledge of Him.  That they learn to trust His word and by doing so will not lean to their on understanding, or the lies of the enemy and the world system.

If you are reading this and you have tried being a Baptist, or some other denomination, and it just didn’t work, stop trying, and ask this question of God; are you real, and if you are real, will you reveal yourself to me, because I want to know you.  Next, ask God to open your spiritual eyes to His truth, and begin to read the book of John.  You may want to also ask God to place in you the ability to believe any and all truth, because you want to know truth.  God has a plan for you, He created you to have fellowship with Him and He loved you so much that he allowed His only Son to become like one of us without sin, so that we could understand this great love the Father has for us.

If you are in Christ, you have already come into a relationship with Him, then let’s move on to “being filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding.”  Romans 12:1&2, gives us this understanding of God’s desire for us to have knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding.   “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.  Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”  God is saying to each of us, take the test, but not by your standards, but by God’s word. 

Is this our problem, we just do not believe God’s word?  Now this is not Church or some Bible study with others who we want to look good for, it is just you and God, so be honest, any actions on our part that does not comply with the written word of God is disobedience, it’s using a standard of our choosing, not God’s.  I found myself at that place yesterday, in a Bible study.  So it is a matter of will, I release my will that has been polluted by the enemy of my soul, and this world system, and ask the Father to change my thinking, to renew my mind, to “be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding.”

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift.  That is why it is called the present.”  (Author Unknown)