R1653 Powerful Prayer

Prayer is the lifeline of the Christian life and today Dr. Don Wilton's message is called powerful prayer.

Let's open the word together as we hear, document, and teach from Colossians chapter 1 about powerful prayer you need to know. We believe in praying as well matter that were available 24 hours a day at this phone number 866898668999673 rated talk and pray with you. Also ready to connect with wonderful resources like Dr. Wilson's book that he wrote about this time with Dr. Billy Graham call Saturdays with Billy, or fresh new perspective on the call for courage. We need in a world where Christians are more oppressed than ever.

Again all the details run a website as well. Tewonline.org oh RG that's TE W online.org now. Today's great teaching with Dr. Don Wilton not open your Bibles with me to the later to the church lost sight. This is Colossians in the New Testament beautiful epistle in incredible word from God and God, our heavenly father chose to speak through pole.

The apostle God's appointed vessel in me speaking to people not unlike you and me in. They will so many similarities.

When we get to verse three of chapter 1 right at the beginning, we have recorded for us what I believe is one of the most powerful prayers ever listen to what God was saying is through pole to the church. Verse three we always thank God, the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you because we haven't heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and we are good of the love you have for all the saints of faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven, and that you have already heard about in the word of truth, the gospel, that is come to you all over the world. This gospel is bearing fruit and growing just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and understood God's grace in all its truth you learned it from a preference dear fellow servant who is a faithful minister of Christ on Alba half and who also told us of your love in the spirit. For this reason since the day we have heard about you.

We have not stopped praying for you and asking God to food you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding, and we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord Jesus and might please him in every way bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, so that you might have endurance and patience and joyfully giving thanks to the father who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints of the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and he's brought us into the kingdom of the son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sin now is that not the most beautiful present. I'm going to preach on that for the next year and that the most wonderful passage, powerful prayer, church you are strong this pray and I'm only saying this by way of an introductory statement is really an affirmation of God's people. It's predicated on pole began by telling these people how they would do this. Prayer is an affirmation of five things related to God's people in the crosscurrents of the world in which they lived.

Number one, it was an affirmation of their faith right there in the text.

He said because we have heard of your faith that such a beautiful word is in the church.

Faith just means you just trust God, you can type God and his word. He will never let you down. My life is in your hands no matter what my circumstance and he just affirmative.

Well done. You see, they were living in a world where it was very easy to lay faith aside everything tells us not to have faith in God, we pooled besides that we live in the flesh. We need money we cannot see the future. We limited and we all have different levels of understanding have faith in God and he just said to them, will done.

You are a people of great faith. Number two. This prayer is an affirmation of the love and in verse four and of the love you have for one another love one another in the church. The church and he affirmative this prayer is an affirmation of the hope verse five he goes on from that point and he he sees this faith and love that spring from the hope that you have because of that which you know to be true that hope is so real. The church is strong because we have real hope and pole looks at these people who are caught in this world and he just affirms the fact of the faith of their love of their hope in number four of the fruit bearing of the fruit bearing the look what he says here he sees all over this wound. This gospel is bearing fruit and growing just as it has been doing among you.

He looked at them and he said I just want to affirm you are fruit bears and then there's one more. This prayer is an affirmation of the leadership's and affirmation of the leadership he he talks in verse seven he talks about preference and any earmarks this person incorporating that into the leadership principle that God gives to the church and he affirms them because of the leadership and he affirms the leadership spiritual leadership. Now watch what happens here.

This is so beautiful in Colossians chapter 1. This powerful prayer pole looks at them as the vessel of God as they posture as a shepherd speaking the word of God and he affirms them and of that affirmation.

He places right there before him. The all most powerful prayer requests before God on there about half these are the four most powerful prayer requests I could ever pray for you about prayer is a wonderful thing. We were church in which we believe independent pray. It is a whole lot of who we are as believers, but coming out of the affirmation pole launches into the foremost powerful conference upon a people.

One can possibly imagine. And I can think of so many things that we can pray for one another about were praying for Afghanistan, where praying for our nation were praying for Miller to rip praying for our sons and daughters and where praying for people who are bereaved and with whipped praying.

We pray about everything because everything matches but these four things. Number one be filled with the knowledge you're listening to Dr. Don Wilton our teacher on The Encouraging Word don't go away.

He'll be back with the completion of today's message in just a moment on powerful prayer and we're here to pray with you, both online and on the phone. Our phone numbers 866899 word that's 866-899-9673 and on our website TW online.org that's TE W online.org why you're there, sign up for the daily devotional from Dr. Wilton comes out every morning about 6 o'clock and will encourage you that's online@twonline.org now before we get away. There's a fresh new perspective called a call for courage to Dr. Wilton what you know now wind is blowing courageous courage when the time comes this month for your gift of $25 or more to The Encouraging Word you will receive BSL light powerful series by Dr. Welch and that includes a Christian's response to a nation in crisis and Christian response to the personal plus you will receive a conflict.

Soul stirring the help motivate you into action. These resources will help you know why you should respond how to respond when under remember not given us the spirit you can stand on Collette 866-899-WORD 899-9673 request to be something like a bone is like a con for courage today. Thank you for lessening and thank you for supporting The Encouraging Word now is sporadic. Now back to today's great teaching with Dr. Don Wilton number one to be filled with the knowledge of his will. That's what pole prayed for them in the midst of the crises in which they lived there. It is right there in verse nine look at it. For this reason since the day we heard about you. We do not stop praying for you. Watch this and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will.

The church is strong because of the knowledge of his will acquired through spiritual wisdom and understanding. This carries with it being very careful church about who you listen to foremost powerful prayer requests one to be filled with the knowledge of these will number two to live a life worthy of the Lord. Look at verse 10 we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way and by the way Garrett comes for a second time, bearing fruit in every good work. What'd he pray for them. Why is this so powerful. Lord I pray for my people that they would live lives of the Lord Jesus Christ. What is that mean living a life that in every regard is pleasing to God and bearing according to the standards of his righteousness is exalting the congregation he saying to them, stop putting your money into worthlessness, stop summering your seeds on rocky ground stop placing value on those things that do not matter he commands them here in prayer.

Having them in their faith and love and hope in fruit and leadership says the Lord God in heaven. Please give these people the presence and power of the knowledge of the will of God and God made each one of them lives that are worthy of the Lord Jesus number three to be strengthened with all power church strong. When I prayed over the series in Colossians. That's where I booked the word church strong from that verse just thought I'd let you know if you were ever wondering about just kept jumping at me being strengthened with all power church strong, being strengthened with all power and what is he telling us about that when we are strong with the power of God. People we can. You can with all spiritual patients God against human agitation. The way to do that is to be strengthened with all power in Christ.

Foremost, powerful prayer requests to be filled with the knowledge of these will to live a life worthy of the Lord to be strengthened with all power and finally so powerful to be thankful to the father. Look at verse 12 and by the way it is in verse 12 is beautiful it sees and joyfully giving thanks joyfully. There is a spiritual attitude that must accompany our thankfulness is a spiritual attitude. Sometimes we thank God and look like we recovering from hookworm treatment at the same time and that's easy to do, be thankful to the father and you know, as if to put the cherry on the topic gives the church for reasons why we are strong throughout Thanksgiving.

This strengthens us number one because he has qualified us your qualified God qualified you, but I was as clear as anything right. They just tells us giving verse 12 giving thanks to the father who has qualified unqualified God qualified me. Secondly, because he has included us to share with the inheritance of the saints in light. Did you know that God not any qualified but he has included you in the inheritance that he has for all those who love him all the saints who have been enlightened, have come to the truth of knowing Christ.

We are inheritance of the saints in light. We been included.

You included. I'm inviting you today to be included in the family of God.

This is not closed its open for membership because of Jesus which brings us to the third reason he has rescued us. That's what he tells us here in verse 34. He has rescued us look at this from the dominion of darkness. Would anybody like to give us a deal on detailed understanding of the world in which we live today.

The dominion of darkness.

These people were living in the dominion of darkness, it was a bubbling cauldron, and he says joyfully. Thanks. Thankful to the Lord because not any qualified you and included your buddies rescued you from the dominion of darkness which means you and I can now be in the world. When we walked out of worship when we go back to our tables when we go back to our streets when we go back out into the world. We in the world, but we been rescued from the darkness of where in the world but will not of the world. I'm a fun loving person you know that about me was getting myself into trouble. I love it as much mala beaches and fishing and boats and everything you name it and good food and friends and barbecue on Tatiana Cook the whole half side of account tomorrow. I love it all, but I don't have to be the wound and one more reason he says be joyfully thankful is because he is forgive look at that loss statement in whom we have redemption. Verse 14, the forgiveness of sins that beautiful friend. Watch this today speaking to the church. He looks as God's faithfulness is. I just want a firm man.

I know you're in this ballgame. Lot of hard knocks, man. You can do you use strong look at you look at your faith and your love and your hope, your fruit bearing. Look at your leadership.

So I'm going to just pray the savanna pray that you continually be filled with the knowledge of his will and I just pray you live a life worthy of the Lord, that you please him in every way and I just I just pray you'd be strengthened with all power not. I just pray that you continually and joyfully be thankful to God the father. Bottom line because he's forgiven you. You bow your heads with me for a minute. Do you know that you want in icon offer that to you but I can invite you to take offer that God gives to us through Jesus. Jesus Christ, the son of God. This Jesus who came in laying down his life for us gave his life took upon himself the darkness of our sin. When you give your heart to Jesus you receive what he's already done and you are set free.

You raised up to walk in newness of life. Because Jesus is alive, would you give your heart to Jesus today trusted would you come can face bowing before him. Giving your life to him do it.

Lord Jesus, I'm going to pray right now that people everywhere within the sound of my voice from Genesis to celebration to live streaming to television to you to to radio somebody would accept your invitation. Right now to become part of the family of God church strong right now people are going to respond. People are going to say yes to you people are saying yes people are texting saying yes people are calling and saying yes people are going to come down the house church take someone by the hand become part of put the membership down so I won't even church strong Lord Jesus, thank you for loving us so much right in the midst of all the world in which we live with us.

You we pray this prayer together.

In Jesus name, amen and amen. Perhaps you just pray along with Dr. Wilton. Moments ago to give your life to Christ to rededicate your life to Jesus. Dr. Wilton wants to be with you to rejoice and to celebrate the next steps. He has some wonderful resources.

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