Sister Michelle
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Mar 7, 2006 13:20:37 GMT -5
Post by Sister Michelle on Mar 7, 2006 13:20:37 GMT -5
Title: Power to Meet and to Give Thanks
Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Often I pray for someone whose circumstances or needs are unknown to me. There are many prayers in Paul's letters which may be used for almost anyone. One of my favorites is in Colossians 1:9-12. A part of this prayer asks " Strenghtened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfullness.” That seems to cover every possibility. It does not ask for instant solutions or reversals. It does not call on God for miraculous deliverance out of any trouble that might come. It asks for a truly Christian response, by the sufficient power of God: to meet whatever comes as a true Christian should meet it, with the Holy Spirit's gifts of fortitude, patience, and joy. It asks for the power to give thanks. It takes power, doesn't it, to thank the Father when everything in us protests? But we find in Him (not always in what happens to us) plenty of reason to thank Him and plenty of power.
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