Colossians 3 - Praying God's Word

Please read Colossians 3.

Meditate on verse 1.

Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ,

 keep seeking the things above,

 where Christ is,

seated at the right hand of God.

You have concluded praying through the book of Isaiah, and on this last day of April, I have asked you to read Colossians 3. It begins by making you ask yourself a question: Have you been raised up with Christ?

Jesus Christ your LORD was raised up 2,000 years ago. With His miraculous resurrection came the miraculous opportunity for you to be a child of God, a child of the resurrection (Luke 20:36).

Jesus presented Himself alive by many convincing proofs (Acts 1:3). If you have been raised up with Christ, there will be evidence to prove the fact. Reread Colossians 3 and find the convincing proofs that “you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3).

Pray for the evidence of resurrection to be apparent in your life and the lives of those you for whom you are praying as a faithful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

Pray Colossians 3:1-17.

“LORD, as people raised up with You,

let _______ and me keep seeking the things above,

 where You are seated at the right hand of God.

Help us to set our mind on the things above,

 not on the things that are on earth. 

Our life is hidden with Christ in God. 

Christ, You are our life.

Help us consider the members of our earthy body as dead to: 

immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed. 

Do not let us be sons of disobedience!

Let us put aside:

 anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from our mouths.

Do not let us lie to one another,

since we have laid aside the old self with its evil practices,

and have put on the new self,

 who is being renewed to the true knowledge according to Your image, God.

 As those who have been chosen of You, holy and beloved,

 let us put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other,

whoever have a complaint against anyone;

just as You, Lord, forgave us. 

Beyond all these things, let us put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.

 Let the peace of Christ rule in our hearts,

to which indeed we were called in one body, and let us be thankful. 

Let the Word of Christ richly dwell within us,

with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another

with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,

singing with thankfulness in our hearts to You, God. 

Whatever we do in word or deed,

let us do all in Your name, LORD Jesus,

giving thanks through You to God the Father.”

The WATCHMAN on the WALL ~ Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell