Do Not Cease Praying
For this reason we also, from the day we heard of your faith and love, do not cease praying and asking for you, to the end that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
Colossians 1:9
Do Not Cease Praying
For this reason *we* also, from the day we heard of your faith and love,
—What is the greatest gift that you can give for your beloved, be it your friend or parent, or your partner, or anyone who you care about or love the most?
What you need to do is to offer a sincere prayer. Paul is saying, “We, do not cease praying and asking for you.” It’s not one time praying and just forgetting. It’s not one time, making an intercession on behalf of you. No.
Not ceasing
—It’s constant and continuous prayer that Paul is speaking here.
And asking for you
—If you really sincerely love a person, care for anyone in your life, you will be asking God for their wellbeing, their benefit, their happiness.
to the end that ye may be filled with
—yes, filling is essential. As long as we are empty, we will not be satisfied. So, only His spirit can fill. Only His Being, His Love, His Compassion.
Today’s world is suggesting so many things, with which we try to fill ourselves, and try to find happiness or pleasure out of it. It’s only, only a temporary filling. Very soon you feel the emptiness again.
Only His Presence, His Love, His Compassion, His Indwelling within you, can fill your being.
With the full knowledge of his will,
—He has a will for you, and you should know that Will. Knowing That is something that is most amazing that can happen in your life.
Why He created you? ..Why He moved you to the place where you are living? ..Why these parents?… Why these siblings?
All that you are and all that you have inherited has a purpose. And if you discern that, with the help of the Holy Spirit, that is something amazing that can happen to you.
in all wisdom
—the world is not after wisdom; it’s after knowledge, after skill.
But Godly people should seek wisdom.
Holy Book says, wisdom comes to the person who seeks after it, who wakes up early in the morning and awaits, and only to those wisdom is offered. And only to those kind of a thirst, wisdom reaches out.
and spiritual understanding,
—not an ordinary way of understanding. It’s a spiritual understanding. Only that should be a prayer for the ones-who-we-love-the-most.
Abba, Thank You for Your Son interceding and praying for us. Let Your Spirit give us full knowledge of Your Will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, that we may be able to pray right for people who are really in need, especially those ones who You have kept close to us in our lives. In Jesus’ Most Powerful Name, Amen.