Prayer: Communication with God. James 5:16 (niv) says, "Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective." Philippians 4:6 (kjv) says, "Be careful for nothing: but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God."

How to Pray for other Christians

• Colossians 1:3 – Be thankful for their faith and changed lives
• 1:9 – Ask God to help them know what he wants them to do
• 1:9 – Ask God to give them deep spiritual understanding
• 1:10 – Ask God to help them live for him
• 1:10 – Ask God to give them more knowledge of himself
• 1:11 – Ask God to give them strength for endurance
• 1:11 – Ask God to fill them with joy, strength, and thankfulness

Colossians 1:9-14 (niv)

"For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins."

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