“A Prayer for the New Year”

“A Prayer for the New Year” (Colossians 1:9–14)

Pastor Cameron Jungels

Eastside Baptist Church

Sunday AM, January 1, 2017

 

Colossians 1:9-14, NIV

9  For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,  10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,  11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience,  12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.  13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,  14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

      1.  The prayer’s pattern: purposeful and perpetual.

      2.  The prayer’s petition: knowledge of God’s moral will.

      3.  The prayer’s purpose: to live a life worthy of the Lord.

      4.  The prayer’s product:

                a.  Bearing fruit in every good work.

                b.  Growing in the knowledge of God.

                c.   Being strengthened with God’s power for endurance and perseverance.

                d.   Giving thanks to God for his gracious gift of salvation.