“For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, so that you may have great endurance and patience, joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light. He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son he loves. In him we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” (v. 9-14)

Paul, in the Spirit, gives us all a great example here.

So here’s what let’s do:

Let’s each think of someone in the church—a fellow member, a servant, a leader, whatever—and let’s pray for them like Paul prayed for the Colossians. Start in Col. 1:9, and pray through the end of the paragraph. Pray, knowing that the Lord honors these prayers, because they are His Word.

Pray—and watch as encouragement, strength, and inspiration flow into them.

That’s what friends are for.

— Tyler