"PaulsThankfulness" Tagged Sermons
Thankfulness anchors this opening section, and Paul’s habit is to intercede for others in Christ always. He never founded the Colossian church, and still a missionary report about it fills him with joy. In his prayers Paul consistently lifts others up.
Paul gives thanks for believers he has never met, and his example calls us to pray for saints in foreign lands as readily as for those nearby. Romans 1:8 shows something new in how Paul prays, beyond the piety he inherited. Prayer reaches past personal acquaintance.