God's Truth Abideth Still

"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. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of The Lord and 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 may have great endurance and patience, 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 1:9-14

Paul prayed for the new believers in Colosse to grow in Christ. He prayed ceaselessly for them to find their salvation through Jesus. He saw that if they continued to separate themselves from Jesus and put their faith in idols, angels and false doctrine they would perish.
There are so many things we can approach The Throne of Grace with, how many of us truly concern ourselves with the salvation of others? To ask for God's blessing on our brethren should be routine. That others may grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior is vital. (2 Peter 3:18) To gain understanding and to learn the significance of allowing God's will to come to pass through them is crucial. Striving to do good in all we do and living a life pleasing to The Lord is expected.

Being spiritually strengthened by God is to be equipped by His grace.
We cannot expect to accomplish anything on our own, to realize that
through Christ who strengthens us we can do anything. (Phil 4:13) Paul
emphatically states we can trust in Christ - we can trust His power - we can rely on Him to carry us through each day as it comes. That we must turn to Jesus and not to idols or rituals to endure through difficult seasons. For the glory of God as believers is The Power of God. To be absent of it would mean certain failure.

Through Christ Jesus, we have been adopted into His kingdom. Because of the sacrifice Our Savior made for us, His precious blood has qualified us to share in this inheritance. We should always be thankful to Our Lord God for sending His Only Son to die for us. It is only because of Jesus we are made spotless and without blemish in the eyes of God. For our salvation is hidden with Christ only by His enduring love for us.
He brought us out of darkness and into the light of the everlasting.
This unbelievable gift from God is not because of anything we have done or could do. It is by the sacrifices Our Redeemer made for us while we were yet sinners.

The body they may kill:

God's truth abideth still,

His kingdom is forever. - Martin Luther

Chris Connors is a graduate of the Colony of Mercy and is our Director of Housekeeping. We praise God for the growth we have seen in Chris'
life.

Great Quote: The problem with prayer is heightened by the fact that people often succumb either to the extreme of all form and no freedom, or the opposite extreme of all freedom and no form. The first extreme leads to a rote or impersonal approach to prayer, while the second produces an unbalanced and undisciplined prayer life that can degenerate into a litany of one 'gimme' after another. Kenneth Boa