Prayers from Colossians-January-2010

I was starting to write out the prayers in Colossians but decided to blog them instead so we could print them out and put them on our kitchen walls. If I do what I want to do, I will take a book each month and write prayers from the verses and we'll pray our way through 2010 together, memorizing scriptures as we do so. Let's pray for ourselves and our families and for the body of Christ. If we pray these words and God answers them to His understanding, which goes way beyond ours, surely, we will experience revival in our land.

(Taken from NKJV-)

Colossians 1:9-14...
" I pray for you and for me,
asking that we may be filled
with the knowledge of His will
in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
that we may walk worthy of the Lord,
fully pleasing Him,
being fruitful in every good work
and increasing in the knowledge of God;
strengthened with all might,
according to His glorious power,
for all patience and longsuffering with joy;
giving thanks to the Father
who has qualified us to be partakers
of the inheritance of the saints in the light.
He has delivered us from the power of darkness
and conveyed us into the kingdom
of the Son of His love,
in whom we have redemption
through His blood,
the forgiveness of sins."

Colossians 2:2,3;6,7
I pray that our hearts may be encouraged,
being knit together in love,
and attaining to all riches
of the full assurance of understanding,
to the knowledge of the mystery of God,
both of the Father and of Christ,
in whom are hidden all the treasures
of wisdom and knowledge.

I pray that just as we have
received Christ Jesus the Lord,
that we would walk in Him,
rooted and built up in Him
and established in the faith,
as we have been taught,
abounding in it with thanksgiving.

Colossians 3:12-16
I pray that we,
as the elect of God,
holy and beloved,
would put on tender mercies,
kindness, humility, meekness,
longsuffering;
that we would bear with one another,
and forgive one another,
and if anyone has a complaint against another,
even as Christ forgave us,
that we would forgive also.
I pray that we would put on love,
which is the bond of perfection,
and that we would let the peace of God
rule in our hearts,
to which also we were called into one body;
I pray that we would be thankful,
and that the Word of Christ would
dwell in us richly with all wisdom;
that we would teach and admonish one another
in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with grace in our hearts to the Lord.

Colossians 4:2-6
We continue earnestly in prayer
being vigilant in it with thanksgiving;
praying that God would open to us
a door for the word,
to speak the mystery of Christ...
that we may make it manifest,
and speak as we ought to speak.
Help us, Lord, to walk in wisdom
toward those who are outside,
redeeming the time.
Help our speech to always be with grace,
seasoned with salt,
that we may know how we ought
to answer each one.