Colossians 1:9-14

I ask for wisdom daily to overcome the every day trials of this life by remaining steadfast in His love. I pray always for His will to be accomplished and carried out in my life while allowing me to  spiritually discern the working of Satan to destroy it. 

The battle we all fight is spiritual against the powers of darkness. Without the Holy Spirit we can do nothing. Pray that we can patiently hold onto the joy that comes with our salvation and increase His Kingdom by sharing the Good News of the Gospel of love in Christ Jesus. It is only through His birth, death and resurrection that redemption came to man.

As soon as  Paul heard of the new faith of the Colossians, he began interceding with God for them, asking Him to give them knowledge, wisdom, strength, and joy. Wisdom is the practical outworking of knowledge, and that knowledge cannot be separated from the spiritual understanding that comes through the discernment given by the Holy Spirit. A believer’s strength comes from God alone.The kingdom from which believers have been rescued is the kingdom of darkness.

The slavery from which believers are released is not physical but spiritual. They are freed from bondage to sin by forgiveness of sins through the blood of Jesus Christ.

Colossians 1:9-14

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.

⁵ that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, 

1 Corinthians 1:5

² And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. 

Romans 12:2

²⁷ Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel, 

Philippians 1:27

¹⁶ that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 

Ephesians 3:16

¹⁰ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 

Ephesians 6:10

¹² For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 

Ephesians 6:12