A final word

As you know we have been looking at the new nature that we are expected to live in after we submit ourselves to God. He desires complete obedience to His commands. I feel it is something that we can never hear enough because we are constantly hounded by the world and those around us to live completely apart from the life God sets before. I pray that these posts have challenged you in your own faith. I know there are so many areas I could still cover on this topic but I feel I must conclude it with a section that I have prayed over people many times. It is my prayer for you as you read it that you take it to heart and believe the words you are reading. Like the other ruminations, I would encourage you to read this and pray it not only over yourself but the people around you EVERYDAY! I can guarantee you will be changed and those around you will also be if you dedicate yourself to praying this.

It comes from Colossians Chapter 1:9-14 So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy, always thanking the Father. He has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to his people, who live in the light. For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son, who purchased our freedom and forgave our sins.

I just love this section because it has everything in it. Pretty much everything we have been studying over these last weeks is summed up here! There is just so much in here we could spend weeks dissecting! The knowledge of God's will and giving us Spiritual wisdom and understanding. With that we totally would be able to always honor God. We are called to produce good fruit in our lives. We can either produce good or bad fruit, and when we are not growing we are dying. It is something we must constantly keep in check. What are we allowing ourselves to produce. When people see us do they see the fruit of God in our lives or do they see the fruit of the world? We must constantly be growing in our faith, and in our relationship with God. That is the only way to live a life of complete worship to God. It isn't something that we do once and never follow up, we must daily grow so that we can continually be used in the best way for God. Our strength can only be given to us from God, and that is right where our patience and endurance comes from also! There is absolutely no way we can gain these characteristics without His hand actively working in our lives. Finally we must always live in complete thankfulness to God. Our lives must be a life of worship to Him. When we live according to Him and His ways transformation will take place. We will be different and our lives will show it. Every area of our lives, and people will notice our Joy. The only way we will ever be able to explain it would be to say, "It's All GOD!"

I do pray that this page has been good for you, it is my desire to just bring you to a place of wrestling with yourself and growing with God. He desires it, and I felt like this was what He was speaking to me and I wanted to share it with you! Be blessed this week and mark these verses in you bible and pray them each day and put specific names in there to pray over! Then watch to see how God works in your life and the lives of those you are praying for!!