A Model for Personal Prayer-Intercession | A Season of Prayer and Intercession Week 6 | Pastor Andrew Cromwell

A Model for Personal Prayer-Intercession

Series: A Season of Prayer and Intercession | Week 6

Pastor Andrew Cromwell

Colossians 1:1-12 ESV

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

2 To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae:

Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, 5 because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, 6 which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth, 7 just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf 8 and has made known to us your love in the Spirit.

9 And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. 

Personal Intercession is…

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   “We have not ceased to pray”

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  “We have not ceased to pray for you”

The Pattern: Four Personal Prayer Petitions

Colossians 1:9-12 ESV

9 And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. 

First Petition:

asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will… (vs 9)

“The will of God is often enshrouded in darkness, clouded in ambiguity.

Silence, as well as speaking, marks His communication with us. In prayer we struggle to discern God’s will. We talk. We listen. We ponder Scriptures. We reflect. We wait. And graciously the response comes. Not according to our timetable, nor in the form and mode of our design, but in God’s timing and God’s way” (Communicator’s Commentary).

Second Petition:

asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding (vs 9)

Third Petition:

10 so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

D.L. Moody – Every Bible should be bound in shoe leather.

• • Praying for their spiritual desires.

  • Praying that they will be fruitful in every good work as they walk with the Lord.

  • Pray that they will increase in the knowledge of God.

Fourth Petition:

11 being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy

“The point here is to bring the working power of God out of the past and into the present.

Christ is our present power, now, here, today, in this present moment” (Lenski Commentary).

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