The Great Prayer Request

Colossians 1:9 "For this cause we also since the day we heard it,do not cease to pray for you,and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;"(read vs.9-11)

Prayer,the single most powerful weapon the believer has in this war on sin.The sad things is many have no ideal what it is to pray for.The world has us believing we need the things of this world and thus we spend our time praying for these things.The bible tells us Our Father in heaven know we have need of these things and to"take no thought" for them.Our prayers need to be for the things which will allow us to seek first the kingdom of God and His will for our lives.So here Paul tells us what we should pray for:

The first great request is to know God's will.He prays that we are filled with the knowledge of God's will.It is not enough just to know God's will,but we are to be filled with the knowledge of God's will.The will of God is essiential to our very being.There should be nothing flowing in or out of us which is not the will of God.This includes the whole scope of our life,everything we do and every moment that we do it.The will of God must invole in what we say,where we go, what we think,and who we associate with.Simply stated we are to live and move and have our every being in the will of God.God has willed a life that he wants us to live.We are to learn about that life and be filled with the knowledge of that life.

The second great request is to  walk worthy of Christ.This is the critical point in the believers life and this point should be hammered home over and over again.Knowing something and having the ability to do something are very important.We must pray for the wisdom to put what we know into practice,to live the life we talk about.We are to live out the will of God.Knowing the will of God is useless unless we are going to live the will of God,we must committ our lives to this.The will of God is to control our behavior as much as it did the behavior of Christ.

The third great request is for the power of God.God's power is absolute essential for the believer.How can we walk worthy of Christ without the power to walk worthy.It is through and with the power of God that we are able to live the will of God.Only God's power can make us acceptable,can conquer death,and infuse enough strength to endure to the end and walk worthy along the journey. Let us now pray that we be filled with the knowledge of God's will and th ewisdom and power to fulfill it.