Heralds Digest

"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." (Colossians 1:9 NKJV) Untried faith in Jesus Christ is unreliable, or largely, not dependable. While saving faith introduces a soul to the grace that sever the heart from the hold of sins, daily victory over sin and the world requires an abiding faith. This faith believes God and His will enough to doubt all forms of self-will. Since the process of letting down our guards is not easy, Paul had to support the Colossian believers in prayer for a perfect knowledge of God's will. If God allows His children to walk through the fire, He knows nothing else will bring down the expected glory except the heat of the flame. A spirit-filled disciple has no alternative route to the presence of God other than the Master's will.

"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." (Colossians 1:9 NKJV) Hunger and thirst for the preeminence of Christ is more desirable than sustainable in every Christian life and conducts. Being reported of experiencing the spiritual appetite for righteousness, Apostle Paul and his associates took the sustainability challenge of the believers in Colosse to the throne of grace. A sustained spiritual appetite is blessed with grace to maintain balance about the understanding of God's will in all affairs of life. However, hell's greatest weapon against the saints of God is the constant resurgence of carnal appetite for position and pleasure.