FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
MY PERSONAL PRAYER AND DESIRE FOR YOU
This prayer and desire embraces all the law-abiding, law-loving living saints of God, because we can only pray for the living, not the dead saints, for “the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward [such as “posthumous rewards,” etc.]; for the memory of them is forgotten.”…. “for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, wither thou goest” (Eccl. 9: 5, 10).
This personal prayer and desire for you during these most solemn, dwindling hours of probation, are inspired by, contained in, and expressed through a personal emphasized, reading of Colossians 1: 9-14, KJV. Please open your bibles and join me as we establish and reinforce our church family fellowship connection and interrelationships, and electrify the loop and enrich the content and substance of our communications and interactions. So here it is:
“For this cause (“the word of the truth of the gospel,” “the knowledge of the grace of God in truth,” and our “love in the Spirit,” vs 5, 6, 8) I also, since the day I heard it, do not cease to PRAY for you, and to DESIRE that you might be FILLED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIS WIlLL IN ALL WISDOM AND SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING.
That you might walk (live the course of your life) WORTHY OF THE LORD unto all, pleasing, BEING FRUITFUL (not barren or “reprobate”) IN EVERY GOOD WORK (for “faith without works is dead”), and INCREASING (daily) in the KNOWLEDGE of God, STRENGTHENED WITH ALL MIGHT, according to CHRIST’S GLORIOUS POWER, to ALL PATIENCE AND LONG SUFFERING WITH JOYFULNESS.
Giving thanks (“without ceasing,” meaning having the attitude of) unto the Father, who has made us meet (fitted through sanctification) to be PARTAKERS of the INHERITANCE [justification is our title to, and sanctification is our fitness for this] OF THE SAINTS.
For Jesus, through the workings of the Holy Spirit in our hearts and minds has delivered us from (not in) the power of darkness of the prince of darkness and his HOSTS of evil into the KNOWLEDGE of His dear Son:
In and through whom we have REDEMPTION [purchased through HIS BLOOD not by our good works], even the forgiveness of our sins [that have been repented of, and turned away from].”
In the only name under heaven by which and whom we are saved from sinning, Jesus Christ, first, the Son of God, then the Son of man. Amen.
Remember to overcome one day at a time progressively, and one prayer at a time, hence the need to pray daily! NMF
