保罗的祷告
歌罗西书一章9至14节
9因此，我们自从听见的日子，也就为你们不住地祷告祈求，愿你们在一切属灵的智慧悟性上，满心知道神的旨意；
10好叫你们行事为人对得起主，凡事蒙他喜悦，在一切善事上结果子，渐渐地多知道神；
11照他荣耀的权能，得以在各样的力上加力，好叫你们凡事欢欢喜喜地忍耐宽容；
12又感谢父，叫我们能与众圣徒在光明中同得基业。
13他救了我们脱离黑暗的权势，把我们迁到他爱子的国里；
14我们在爱子里得蒙救赎，罪过得以赦免。
信息分享
这里所讲的「知道」，不单是头脑上的认识；而是透过每天的经验而明白到的事实或真理。保罗希望歌罗西信徒在每天的生活中，能够完全和具体地知道神对他们的心意。
认识神的旨意，将会非常具体地影响我们每天的生活。当中包括：我们的行事为人(10节)；善事上结果子(10节)；多知道神(10节)；在各样事上力上加力(11节)；忍耐宽容(11节)；感谢之心(12节)。
让我们反省自己，是否已认识神的旨意，以致能够对日常生活产生具体的影响。求神帮助我们，让我们随着每天与主同行，能更多认识神的旨意。
不要忘记，我们在基督里的身份，是借着三位一体神的每一个位格的工作才得着的。
父神使我们能同享光明。
神子使我们得蒙救赎。
圣灵向我们显明这一切真理。
接着，保罗便引领我们将目光集中在基督的身上。保罗写这书信的目的，是要正视基督并我们与基督的关系。也许，这正是神其中一个最浅显而明确的旨意：我们必须在每天的生活中学像基督，以致能变得愈来愈像祂。
祷告：
主啊，愿别人能在我的身上看见你。
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.