New Wine Ministries International
  • Home
  • About
    • Mission & Vision
    • Joshua & Maureen
  • Ministries
    • Kids
    • Outreach
  • Resources
    • Warrior Newsletter
    • Audio Messages
    • Book
  • Give
  • Home
  • About
    • Mission & Vision
    • Joshua & Maureen
  • Ministries
    • Kids
    • Outreach
  • Resources
    • Warrior Newsletter
    • Audio Messages
    • Book
  • Give

2012 Reading Through
The Bible Blog

Colossians, Philemon – December 14

12/14/2012

0 Comments

 
If commenting on the whole letter of Colossians in one day wasn’t enough, we have Philemon also. Not that it takes a long time to read, but it is packed with so much we could spend time talking about. For today, I’m only going to only talk about two verses from Colossians.

Colossians 1, verses 9 & 10 says, “For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God…”

Before we can be effective doing anything we must be “filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.” As we receive this insight and revelation from Holy Spirit, we can began to “walk worthy of the Lord,” please Him, and be “fruitful I every good work.” The end of verse 10 makes a powerful point; as we begin to live our life by the knowledge God has given us, the verse says we will “increase in the knowledge of God.” So, there is greater revelation knowledge that we receive as we live our life in the truth that God has already given us. You can only receive so much revelation of God by being a “monk;” you need to take the truth He has given you and begin to walk in it, and by doing that you will receive more.

Hebrews 5:13-14 makes this same point; it says, “For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” What makes some able to handle “solid food” (KJV: “strong meat”)? It’s because they have their spiritual senses exercised by “reason of use;’ in other words, they put the truth they know into practice. People who can handle the “meat of the word” are not necessarily intellectual giants; they are humble people that practice what they know God is instructing. The deep understanding of God’s word only comes as we walk with Him. 

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    RSS Feed

    About

    Read through the Bible with us in 2012! The reading plan can be downloaded below; we are reading in chronological order. Check back often to read the blog posts on the Bible readings and discuss things in the "comments" section.   

    2012 Bible Plan

    2012_bible.pdf
    File Size: 187 kb
    File Type: pdf
    Download File

    Archives

    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011

    Categories

    All
    1 Chronicles
    1 Corinthians
    1 John
    1 Kings
    1 Peter
    1 Samuel
    1 Thessalonians
    1 Timothy
    2 Chronicles
    2 Corinthians
    2 John
    2 Kings
    2 Peter
    2 Samuel
    2 Timothy
    3 John
    Acts
    Amos
    Colossians
    Daniel
    Deuteronomy
    Ecclesiastes
    Ephesians
    Esther
    Exodus
    Ezekiel
    Ezra
    Galatians
    Genesis
    Habakkuk
    Haggai
    Hebrews
    Hosea
    Introduction
    Isaiah
    James
    Jeremiah
    Job
    Joel
    John
    Jonah
    Joshua
    Jude
    Judges
    Lamentations
    Leviticus
    Luke
    Malachi
    Mark
    Matthew
    Micah
    Nahum
    Nehemiah
    Numbers
    Obadiah
    Philemon
    Philippians
    Proverbs
    Psalms
    Revelation
    Romans
    Ruth
    Song Of Solomon
    Titus
    Zechariah
    Zephaniah

Phone

952-881-0123
​

Give to New Wine

    Contact Us

Submit