保羅的禱告
歌羅西書一章9至14節
9因此，我們自從聽見的日子，也就為你們不住地禱告祈求，願你們在一切屬靈的智慧悟性上，滿心知道神的旨意；
10好叫你們行事為人對得起主，凡事蒙他喜悅，在一切善事上結果子，漸漸地多知道神；
11照他榮耀的權能，得以在各樣的力上加力，好叫你們凡事歡歡喜喜地忍耐寬容；
12又感謝父，叫我們能與眾聖徒在光明中同得基業。
13他救了我們脫離黑暗的權勢，把我們遷到他愛子的國裡；
14我們在愛子裡得蒙救贖，罪過得以赦免。
信息分享
這裡所講的「知道」，不單是頭腦上的認識；而是透過每天的經驗而明白到的事實或真理。保羅希望歌羅西信徒在每天的生活中，能夠完全和具體地知道神對他們的心意。
認識神的旨意，將會非常具體地影響我們每天的生活。當中包括：我們的行事為人(10節)；善事上結果子(10節)；多知道神(10節)；在各樣事上力上加力(11節)；忍耐寬容(11節)；感謝之心(12節)。
讓我們反省自己，是否已認識神的旨意，以致能夠對日常生活產生具體的影響。求神幫助我們，讓我們隨著每天與主同行，能更多認識神的旨意。
不要忘記，我們在基督裡的身份，是藉著三位一體神的每一個位格的工作才得著的。
父神使我們能同享光明。
神子使我們得蒙救贖。
聖靈向我們顯明這一切真理。
接著，保羅便引領我們將目光集中在基督的身上。保羅寫這書信的目的，是要正視基督並我們與基督的關係。也許，這正是神其中一個最淺顯而明確的旨意：我們必須在每天的生活中學像基督，以致能變得愈來愈像祂。
禱告：
主啊，願別人能在我的身上看見你。
PAUL'S PRAYER FOR THE COLOSSIANS
Colossians 1:9-14
9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy;
12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.
13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,
14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
Message
The word 'knowledge' means far more than learning something with our minds. It means knowing the fact or truth in our experience day by day. Paul is praying that the Colossian Christians may have a complete, practical knowledge of the will of God every day of their lives.
Knowing God's will results in some very practical issues.
Notice how it will affect your: 1. Daily walk (v. 10); 2. Fruitfulness (every good work) (v. 10); 3. Ability to know God (v. 10); 4. Daily strength (v. 11); 5. Patience and joy (v. 11); 6. Thankfulness (v. 12).
Stop and think about each of these results. Ask God to help you know something more of them in a growing experience with Christ.
Never forget your position in Christ, accomplished through each member of the Godhead:
1.God the Father has made us partakers or sharers in his light.
2.God the Father has delivered us from the power of darkness.
3.God the Son has given us redemption.
4.God the Holy Spirit makes these truths real to us.
Then Paul brings us back to Christ, his main theme in this epistle. From now on in the remainder of this chapter it will be about Christ and our relationship to him. Perhaps that is the simplest aspect of the will of God-that we should be like Christ and that we should grow more and more into his likeness day by day.
A PRAYER: Lord may others see Jesus Christ in me today.