Day 18

Colossians 1:9-14 became my favorite verses in 2021. I was reading through the Old Testament and when I got to the first chapter of Colossians I continued to read that chapter every day for the next week. I was so drawn to it and desired to know it and live it. So much so that they have been the verses that I specifically pray over each of my family members and close friends daily, since 2021. They are written out in a prayer and put in a small glass jar that sits over the front door of our home.

To me, these verses are how our salvation is to be lived out daily. Desiring wisdom and spiritual understanding, walking worthy of the Lord, being fruitful in every good work, increasing in the knowledge of God, longsuffering with joyfulness, a reminder of our inheritance, giving thanks and remembering it is through His blood alone that we have forgiveness of sins.

Living this out is the gospel on the ground to those who God allows in our lives and keeps us in a close walk with Him. May we all live out Colossians 1:9-14 in 2025!

9"For this cause, since the day I have heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you would be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding: 10 That you would walk worthy of the Lord, unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 Strengthened with all might, according to his longsuffering with joyfulness; 12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: 13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of His dear son: 14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even unto the forgiveness of sins" (Colossians 1:9-14).

By: Heather Wright