UNDERSTANDING
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding
what the will of the Lord is.
(Ephesians 5.17).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding
what the will of the Lord is.
(Ephesians 5.17).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
In Him we have redemption through
His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in
accordance with the riches of God’s
grace that He lavished on us with all
wisdom and understanding.
(Ephesians 1.7 & 8).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the
will of God, and Timothy our brother,
To the holy and faithful brothers and
sisters in Christ at Colosse:
Grace and peace to you from God our
Father.
We always thank God, the Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
because we have heard of the love you
have for all the saints- 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
(Best News Ever) that has 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 Epaphras, our dear
fellow servant, who s a faithful minister
of Christ on our behalf, and who also
told us of your love in the Spirit.
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 may
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.
He is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn over all creation.
For by Him all things were created:
things in heaven and on earth,
visible and invisible, whether thrones
or powers or rulers or authorities;
all things were created by Him and for Him.
He is before all things, and in Him all things
hold together.
And He is the head of the body, the church;
He is the beginning and firstborn from among
the dead, so that in everything He might have
the supremacy. For God was pleased to have
all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him
to reconcile to Himself all things, whether
things on earth or things in heaven, by making
peace through His blood, shed on the cross.
(Colossians 1.1-20).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything,
by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present
your requests to God. And the peace of God, which
transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts
and your minds in Christ Jesus.
(Philippians 4.6&7).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer
and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will
guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
(Philippians 4.6 & 7).
We know that we are the children of God, and that the
whole world is under the control of the evil one. We
know also that the Son of God has come and has given
us understanding, so that we may know Him Who is true.
And we are in Him Who is true- even in His Son Jesus Christ.
He is the true God and eternal life.
Dear children keep yourselves from idols.
(I. John 5.19-21).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Grace be to all of you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I give thanks to my God for you always when I mention you in my prayers,
Because I continue to hear of your love and of your loyal faith which you have
toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the consecrated people of God.
And I pray that the participation in and sharing of your faith may produce
and promote full recognition and appreciation, understanding and precise
knowledge of every good thing that is ours in (our identification with) Christ
Jesus (and unto His glory).
(Philemon 1.3-6).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by
prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your
requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends
all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in
Christ Jesus.
(Philippians 4.4-7).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord
with all your heart and mind and do not rely on
your own insight or understanding.
In all your ways know, recognize and acknowledge
Him, and He will direct and make straight your paths.
(Proverbs 3.5&6).
HALLELUJAH! WE PRAISE YOU AND THANK YOU
LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
So this I say and solemnly testify in the name of the Lord, that you
must no longer live as the heathen do in their perverseness (in the
folly, vanity, and emptiness of their souls and the futility) of their
minds.
Their moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is clouded.
They are alienated from the life of God because of ignorance that is deep-
seated in them, due to their hardness of heart.
In their spiritual apathy they have become callous and past feeling and
reckless and have abandoned themselves as a prey to unbridled sensuality,
eager and greedy to indulge in every form of impurity that their depraved
desires may suggest and demand.
But you did not so learn Christ!
Assuming that you have really heard Him and been taught by Him, as all
Truth is in Jesus embodied and personified in Him,
Strip yourselves of your former nature which characterized your previous
manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring
from delusion;
And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind,
And put on the new nature created in God’s image, in true righteousness
and holiness.
(Ephesians 4. 17-24).
AMEN!