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Preparing for. RAIN. PRAYER FLOWS OUT OF A GRATEFUL HEART. PRAYER FLOWS OUT OF A GRATEFUL HEART For Faith Expressed We always thank God, the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus… Colossians 1:3-4a NIV.
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Preparing for RAIN
PRAYER FLOWS OUT OF A GRATEFUL • HEART
PRAYER FLOWS OUT OF A GRATEFUL • HEART • For Faith Expressed • We always thank God, the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus… • Colossians 1:3-4a NIV
PRAYER FLOWS OUT OF A GRATEFUL • HEART • For Love Demonstrated • and of the love you have for all the saints… • … and who also told us of your love in the Spirit. • Colossians 1:4b, 8 NIV
PRAYER FLOWS OUT OF A GRATEFUL • HEART • For Hope Stored In Heaven • …the 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. • Colossians 1:5 NIV
PRAYER FLOWS OUT OF A GRATEFUL • HEART • Because Of The Gospel Of Truth • 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. • Colossians 1:6 NIV
2) PRAYER PREPARES THE GROUND FOR RAIN
2) PRAYER PREPARES THE GROUND FOR RAIN By Seeking To Know God’s Will For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. Colossians 1:9 NIV
2) PRAYER PREPARES THE GROUND FOR RAIN By Seeking To Know God’s Will • Through All Spiritual Wisdom
2) PRAYER PREPARES THE GROUND FOR RAIN By Seeking To Know God’s Will • Through All Spiritual Wisdom • And Understanding
2) PRAYER PREPARES THE GROUND FOR RAIN So That We Can And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the LORD Colossians 1:10a
2) PRAYER PREPARES THE GROUND FOR RAIN So That We Can • Live Worthy
2) PRAYER PREPARES THE GROUND FOR RAIN So That We Can • Please God …and may please him in every way… Colossians 1:10b NIV
2) PRAYER PREPARES THE GROUND FOR RAIN So That We Can • Be Productive …bearing fruit in every good work, … Colossians 1:10c NIV
2) PRAYER PREPARES THE GROUND FOR RAIN So That We Can • Grow In Him …growing in the knowledge of God,… Colossians 1:10d NIV
2) PRAYER PREPARES THE GROUND FOR RAIN So That We Can • Be Strengthened …being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might… Colossians 1:11a NIV
2) PRAYER PREPARES THE GROUND FOR RAIN So That We Can • Endure …so that you may have great endurance and patience,… Colossians 1:11b NIV
2) PRAYER PREPARES THE GROUND FOR RAIN So That We Can • Joyfully Give Thanks …and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1:12-14 NIV