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KING’S CHURCH BLOG


21st January 2025

PUT OUR FISTS TOGETHER AND PRAY

As we have been reading and studying Paul's letter to the Colossians, it has been stirring and encouraging to see how much thanksgiving and prayer run like a clear and beautiful stream through this letter. We see Paul giving thanks for their faith in Christ and love in the Spirit for one another. We also get to find out what he is praying for them as a church community.  He says 'we haven't stop praying for you'...'asking God to fill you with the knowledge of what he wants for you, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. This will mean that you'll be able to conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the Lord, and so give hom real delight, as you bear fruit in every good work and grow up in the knowledge of God. I pray that you'll be given all possible strength, according to the power of his glory, so you'll have complete patience and become truly steadfast and joyful. And I pray that you will learn to give thanks to the Father who has made you fit to share in the inheritance of God's holy ones in the light'. (Colossians 1:9-12)

Later in the letter he encourages the Colossians to 'devote yourselves to prayer; keep alert, with thanksgiving. While you're about it, pray for us, too, that God will open in front of us a door for the word, so that we may speak of the mystery of the King [Jesus Christ] .....pray that I may speak clearly about it.'         

So as we start the year,  as a local church family, we have five days of prayer from Monday 27 to Friday 31 January.  We will provide five days of devotional notes and prayer points to steer and stimulate your prayers.  We will also be offering these different opportunities to meet for prayer:

Tuesday 28 January: Morning Online Zoom Prayer, 7am to 7.30am
Wenesday 29 January: Lunchtime Online Zoom Prayer, 1pm to 1.30pm
Thursday 30 January: Morning Online Zoom Prayer, 7am to 7.30am
Friday 31 January: In Person Hour of Prayer, 1pm to 2pm, Brigade House
Friday 31 January: In Person Friday Evening Prayer, 7.30pm to 9.30pm Brigade House

As Pete Grieg has written: 'the truth is this: there are terrible evils that will only be restrained, and wonderful blessings that will only be unlocked, by our prayers' so, as Martin Luther has said about the spiritual battles we are engaged in....'the best thing we can do....is to put our fists together and pray'.  


Cliff Nelson

Posted by Cliff Nelson
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