Scripture

We also pray that you will be strengthened all his glorious power so that you will have all the endurance and patience you need.

Observation

Paul’s co-worker,Epaphras, taught the Colossians about the Good News, and he also reported back to Paul about the love for others that the Holy Spirit gave them.

Paul continues to pray for them always. He asks that they will receive complete knowledge of God’s will with wisdom and understanding to be able to honour and please the Lord. He also prays that they will be strengthened to endure and be filled with joy. The Father has transferred us from the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of His dear Son who purchased our freedom.

Application

We all need the “glorious power” of the Holy Spirit. This is the power manifested in various gifts of the Holy Spirit such as words of knowledge, wisdom, faith, healing, and miracles. We should earnestly seek these things.

Paul here speaks of this glorious power leading to endurance and patients. When we know that God is with us and in us, we can endure anything. The power of salvation leads to the power to overcome opposition.

God calls us to stand firm in Him. He is the one who gives us the ability to persevere to the end and through to eternity.

Endurance and patience are underrated qualities in our culture. It is not how we start the race that matters, but how we finish it.

Prayer

Lord, grant me your glorious power so that I can endure all things and remain victorious in you. Amen.