Prayer (for Beginners)

Praying for others

Prayer (for Beginners)

Colossians 1 v 3-14

& 2 Thessalonians 1 v 3-12

Setting the scene

Prayer (for Beginners) – Praying for Others

•Paul writing to Colossians from prison cell - He’s never met them.

•He’s worried about pagans infiltrating church

•He’s spent time with the Thessalonians – they are being persecuted.

It’s a good thing to pray for others

Prayer (for Beginners) – Praying for Others

Colossians v3we always thank God… when we pray for you… V9we have never stopped praying for you

2 Thessalonians 1 v3 We ought to pray for you… v11 we constantly pray for you.

•Monumental importance to Paul

•2nd commandment model

•Challenge

Celebrating what God is doing

Prayer (for Beginners) – Praying for Others

•Affirming style

Colossians v4we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love you have for all the saints… V6All over the world the Gospel is bearing fruit 2 Thessalonians 1 v3 your faith is growing more and more, and the love for one another is increasing. v4 Your perseverance and faith in persecution

•Reminds them of salvation – All over the world - Rough times

•Challenge

Praying for their spiritual well-being

Prayer (for Beginners) – Praying for Others

•Paul leads up to this

Colossians v9for this reason we have not stopped praying

2 Thessalonians 1 v11with this in mind we constantly pray

•Praying out of love

•Christians or not?

•Reason = Heresy in church

•What in mind? – Suffering & persecution

Praying for their spiritual well-being

Prayer (for Beginners) – Praying for Others

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why does Paul pray this?

Prayer (for Beginners) – Praying for Others

2 Thessalonians 1 v12 We pray this so that the name of the Lord Jesus might be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ

• Jesus in Glorfied

•Challenge