DECEMBER "prayer-starters" DAY 3

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Colossians 1:9 That is why we keep on talking to God about you since the day we heard about you. We ask him that you may know everything he wants you to do. We ask him that you may be very wise and that the Spirit will help you to understand.
10 We ask him that you will live the way the Lord wants you to live, so that you will please him in everything you do. We ask that you will do everything that is good. We ask that you will see the fruit from what you do. We ask that you will know more and more about God.

11 God has wonderful power. And we ask him to give you all the strength you need to go through all your troubles, to be very patient in them, and to be happy.

12 Thank the Father who has made us ready to be with the people of God who live in his light.

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Day 3—The hope that is dawning on us is beyond anything the mind could imagine.

Only the Holy Spirit can lead us into the revelation Paul is presenting in much of his Epistles. He makes it very clear to us where the understanding that worked in him came from. See this that he said in his Epistle to the Galatians.

Galatians 1:12—For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Paul’s new Life in Christ began with a most unusual revelation of Christ Himself. While he was yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, (Acts 9:1) he was on his way to Damascus with some authoritative letters permitting him to bring back to Jerusalem as prisoners whomsoever he found calling Jesus Lord. On his way there, the living Lord Jesus appeared to him. He was instantly changed. Being so convinced regarding Jesus, right away he began preaching the very thing he had so vehemently opposed.

As we read Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians, we are partaking of some of the powerful revelation of Truth that had come to Paul. Even though he was a prisoner on account of the very thing he formerly opposed, he had become convinced that Christ Jesus is, indeed, alive. Not only that, he had come to see that Jesus is ready to share His resurrection Life with us.

See again what is recorded in Colossians 3:3. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. To add to this, let us see II Corinthians 5:17—Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature (there is a new creation, a whole new realm of living): old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. To see this verse again, let us read it as it appears in Weymouth’s translation: So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old state of things has passed away; a new state of things has come into existence. So, from this new state of things we are becoming ready to live our new Life in Christ Jesus.

DEAR FATHER, I am more than ready for a new way of living than ever before. I’m beginning to see that this can only come about as I allow Your beloved Son to live in me. I open my heart to You this day. Please carry me forward in my new Life in Him. And, loving FATHER, please send Your Spirit to these I name before You. Let them know the new creation that can be theirs now in Christ Jesus.

Discovering a New Way of Living—Psalm 34:1-22
How Paul and Silas Responded to Life in Prison—Acts 16:25-31

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