Lord,
On this Monday, draw us to your Word to pray with Paul,
to pray for those we love and those we need to love,
that the “truth of the Good News” about Jesus Christ
would radically change the way we live.
By your Holy Spirit, may the Good News
give us a stunning love for others (Colossians 1:7).
By your Holy Spirit, may the Good News
give us “spiritual wisdom and understanding”
and a “complete knowledge of God’s will” (Colossians 1:9).
By your Holy Spirit, may the Good News
lead us to “honor and please the Lord”
and to “produce every kind of good fruit” (Colossians 1:10).
By your Holy Spirit,
may this Good News “strengthen us with all his glorious power”
so we “will have all the endurance and patience” we need.
Finally, by your Holy Spirit,
may the Good News
fill us “with joy,” today and every day of this week,
and may we be found “thanking the Father,”
whatever our circumstances (Colossians 1:11-12).
In Jesus’ supreme name. Amen.
Read Colossians 1:1-12.
