Title: Carpe Diem Praying (3)
Series: Prison Prayers
Author: James Merritt
Text: Colossians 1:9-14
Introduction
1. Not long ago I came across a statement that immediately arrested my attention. It said this, "You can tell what a person likes by what they do. You can tell what a person thinks by what they say. But, you can tell what a person is by how they pray." That being true, it raises my admiration for a man named Paul to a whole other level.
2. We are concluding a series we have called "Prison Prayers." The Apostle Paul wrote some letters from a Roman prison, not knowing what day would be his last to various churches and he included some personal prayers which are some of the greatest prayers in the Bible. They raise prayer to another level. They are so unlike the prayers that we pray.
3. The prayer we are going to study today is found in a book called Colossians. [Turn to Colossians 1] This prayer is particularly unique, because in the first two prayers that we examined Paul was praying for churches he had actually founded or visited and for Christians that he personally knew. Here, Paul is writing to a church he has never visited. He has never met one Christian in this city. Yet, without knowing a single name or a single need he prayed a perfect prayer for not just this church and not just these people, but for any church and any people. In fact, I am so impressed by the prayer I call it a "Carpe Diem" prayer. If you are familiar with that phrase you know it means "seize the day." You are going to find I don't know of any prayer that we could pray on a daily basis that could do more in us, for us, with us, and ultimately through us than this prayer. If you believe in God and you believe God is important then you have to believe in prayer and that prayer is important. We all want to pray the types of prayer that we are one hundred percent convinced that God not only hears, but God would agree with and God would answer. This ...
Series: Prison Prayers
Author: James Merritt
Text: Colossians 1:9-14
Introduction
1. Not long ago I came across a statement that immediately arrested my attention. It said this, "You can tell what a person likes by what they do. You can tell what a person thinks by what they say. But, you can tell what a person is by how they pray." That being true, it raises my admiration for a man named Paul to a whole other level.
2. We are concluding a series we have called "Prison Prayers." The Apostle Paul wrote some letters from a Roman prison, not knowing what day would be his last to various churches and he included some personal prayers which are some of the greatest prayers in the Bible. They raise prayer to another level. They are so unlike the prayers that we pray.
3. The prayer we are going to study today is found in a book called Colossians. [Turn to Colossians 1] This prayer is particularly unique, because in the first two prayers that we examined Paul was praying for churches he had actually founded or visited and for Christians that he personally knew. Here, Paul is writing to a church he has never visited. He has never met one Christian in this city. Yet, without knowing a single name or a single need he prayed a perfect prayer for not just this church and not just these people, but for any church and any people. In fact, I am so impressed by the prayer I call it a "Carpe Diem" prayer. If you are familiar with that phrase you know it means "seize the day." You are going to find I don't know of any prayer that we could pray on a daily basis that could do more in us, for us, with us, and ultimately through us than this prayer. If you believe in God and you believe God is important then you have to believe in prayer and that prayer is important. We all want to pray the types of prayer that we are one hundred percent convinced that God not only hears, but God would agree with and God would answer. This ...
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