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06/08          Colossians 1:11-12

We also pray that you will be strengthened with his glorious power so that you will have all the patience and endurance you need. May you be filled with joy, 12 always thanking the Father, who has enabled you to share the inheritance that belongs to God’s holy people, who live in the light.

JOY

People are looking for joy. They think it will be in money or success or status-always related to a thing or an event. Joy is something we have inside when we come into the Family of God. We have real joy in Jesus Christ.

06/07          Colossians 1:10
Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and you will continually do good, kind things for others. All the while, you will learn to know God better and better.

WISE
When we receive wisdom from the Lord we become wise in spiritual things. As we serve the Lord those spiritual things translate into our being wise in the way we live. A wise person fears God, loves Jesus and loves people.  

06/06          Colossians 1:9
So we have continued praying for you ever since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you a complete understanding of what he wants to do in your lives, and we ask him to make you wise with spiritual wisdom.

WISE
Read the Word of God, meditate on it, apply it to your life and you will be wise. Listen to the Lord and you will grow in wisdom.

06/05          Colossians 1:7-8

Epaphras, our much-loved co-worker, was the one who brought you the Good News. He is Christ’s faithful servant, and he is helping us in your place. 8 He is the one who told us about the great love for others that the Holy Spirit has given you.

TOLD

Who told you about Jesus? Pray for them. Who have you told about Jesus? Pray for them.

06/04          Colossians 1:6

This same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world. It is changing lives everywhere, just as it changed yours that very first day you heard and understood the truth about God’s great kindness to sinners.

GOSPEL
Proclaim it with every breath. Be faithful in sharing. Make sharing the Gospel a part of your normal Christian walk. Jesus is Lord. Tell the world about it. He saves us from our sin giving us life and moving us from the realm of death and darkness to the realm of light, peace and eternal life.

06/03          Colossians 1:5

You do this because you are looking forward to the joys of heaven — as you have been ever since you first heard the truth of the Good News.

HOPE
Christian hope is solid and substantial. It is embedded in in the eternal truth of God. When we are saved we are forever bound up in Jesus. He will never leave us. We belong to Him. Hope looks ahead. We have absolute hope for the future when we will be together with Him in Heaven. God guarantees our hope in His infallible Word. Jesus is Lord. We have hope and can look forward to being with Him in Heaven.

06/02          Colossians 1:3-4

We always pray for you, and we give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 4 for we have heard that you trust in Christ Jesus and that you love all of God’s people.

LOVE
Real love is the word used here. We should love everyone including our enemies but in this case the word simply means that there is a strong bond between brothers and sisters in Christ-Jesus Himself- and we are to have a very strong love for them as Jesus loves us.

06/01          Colossians 1:1-2

This letter is from Paul, chosen by God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and from our brother Timothy. 2 It is written to God’s holy people in the city of Colosse, who are faithful brothers and sisters in Christ. May God our Father give you grace and peace.

GRACE AND PEACE
God’s gift to you and me is His grace, giving us what we need and cannot earn and His peace, the aggressive activity of God in us to give us His presence which is peace.

05/31          1 Thessalonians 5:23-28

Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until that day when our Lord Jesus Christ comes again. 24 God, who calls you, is faithful; he will do this. 25 Dear brothers and sisters, pray for us. 26 Greet all the brothers and sisters in Christian love. 27 I command you in the name of the Lord to read this letter to all the brothers and sisters. 28 And may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with all of you.

FAITHFUL

Jesus is faithful. No matter what we do Jesus is faithful. Accept His peace, understand His love, revel in His presence-Jesus is Lord. Jesus is faithful.

05/30          1 Thessalonians 5:19-22

Do not stifle the Holy Spirit. 20 Do not scoff at prophecies, 21 but test everything that is said. Hold on to what is good. 22 Keep away from every kind of evil.

JESUS

Ask Jesus what to do. Talk with Him about everything. He will lead you in the way you should go. Jesus will deal with evil, stand behind Him and let Him handle whatever you are facing. Jesus is Lord of all things. Trust Jesus and He will enable you to stand.