Galatians 4 ~ Praying Scripture

Please read Galatians 4.

Meditate on verse 9.

But now that you have come to know God,

 or rather to be known by God,

how is it that you turn back to the weak and worthless elemental things,

 to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?

If you are in Christ, you are known by God.  Let that truth soak in for a moment.  Now think about the most important person alive today.  Can you imagine knowing and being known by that person?

As a believer, you are known intimately by God Almighty.  And the kind of knowing described in this verse means knowing intimately like a husband and wife know each other.   This is amazingly freeing truth. 

Paul wanted the believers in Galatia to know they were loved and known by God and adhering to religious ritual and the commands of men was not going to make God know or love them any better.  There were people in the Galatian churches who said Christians had to keep parts of the Old Testament law to be right with God.

Paul asked them why would they want to be enslaved to the law, to the legalism of men?

Paul wrote this letter to continue discipling the believers who were still children in their faith.  They needed to grow and mature in Christ.

Pray Galatians 4:19 over those for whom you are laboring as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“Lord, I continue to labor on behalf of  _____________________

until You are formed in them. 

Let Christ be formed in __________________.

For the sake of Your Name, Jesus~”