For He rescued us...

Thank you, Greenhouse Builders, for your prayer, promotion, and provision for the mission of Greenhouse Christian Co-School. We invite you to pray through Colossians 1:9-20 during the month of April.

Reflecting on these beautiful lines as Greenhouse Builders, ask God for His spiritual wisdom and understanding as we celebrate Easter and experience the unveiling of spring.  As you pray through these two paragraphs, you are invited to think of the first paragraph as a prayer for the Greenhouse community, particularly the students this spring. We have highlighted a few words and phrases for deeper contemplation. How often do we pray for these sorts of things?

 “For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. For He rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.”

Now as you pray through the second paragraph, you are invited to reflect on how the truth in these verses make the first paragraph possible. This was true not only when Paul originally penned them, but also and while we are reading them two millennia later. Bless the Lord!

 “For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.”

 As Greenhouse Builders, may we learn to pray for what truly matters in the Lord.