Colossians 1:9-23
This passage deserves to be dissected, understood, and our full immersive receiving of the width and depth it contains for us; so much beauty, power, and promise! But for today, let’s focus on praying and speaking this over ourselves and over all the others you are prompted to pray these words over too (you will be!).
Here is the passage, modified to make it first-person, ready to read, meditate, believe, receive, and speak over yourself right now. The bolded portions are confirmation that He’s the One who made it possible and that He wants you to know these works and these truths are undeniably for you!
God, I ask that I may be filled with the knowledge of Your will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that I may walk worthy of You, Lord, fully pleasing You, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in knowing You, God; that I would be strengthened with all might, according to YOUR glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; I give thanks to You, Father who have qualified me to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in the light. You have delivered me from the power of darkness and conveyed me into the kingdom of the Son of Your love, in whom I have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of my sins.
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
For it pleased You, Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Yourself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.
And I, who once was alienated and an enemy in my mind by wicked works, yet now You have reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present ME holy, and blameless, and above reproach in Your sight— if indeed I continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and am not moved away from the hope of the gospel which I heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven…
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