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Patience, Endurance, and Joy: Produced by the Power of the Holy Spirit

  • Writer: Jack Selcher
    Jack Selcher
  • 5 days ago
  • 2 min read
A dove hovering over a group of Christians, hand in hand, forming a circle, representing the power of the Holy Spirit

Your prayers reveal your priorities. Paul was excited to hear that people in Colossae were bearing spiritual fruit. He thanked God for their faith in Jesus Christ and love for all the saints.

 

When you embrace the gospel, it releases your potential. It produces blue ribbon fruit (Colossians 1:6). It reconciles you to God. It turns you from His enemy to His friend. It makes you more like Jesus.

 

Paul prayed that the gospel would have its full effect on the Colossians. When that happens to you, it affects every corner of the room of your being.

 

It transforms your thought life. It changes what you read, how you think, how you feel, and how you treat others.

 

Bearing fruit pleases the Lord (Colossians 1:10). Your worship, service, and character development are three varieties of fruit.

 

As rain, sunshine, and nutrients enable plants to grow, applied knowledge of God helps you grow and mature spiritually.

 

Paul urges you to be continuously strengthened with God’s power to demonstrate joyfully patience and endurance. You must surrender to God for the power of the Holy Spirit to flow through you.

 

Are you easily upset? Are you unable to wait for much of anything? If so, the problem is a lack of spiritual power. Patience is seeing things through.

 

Endurance is not retaliating despite being injured. Patience, endurance, and joy are the sweet fragrances of the Holy Spirit’s control.

 

God has done four things that deserve your gratitude (Colossians 1:12-14). He qualified you to share a perfect, pure, heavenly inheritance (Colossians 1:12). Thank you, Lord!

 

He rescued you from the dominion of ignorance, falsehood, and sin (Colossians 1:13). Thank you, Lord!

 

He removed you from the kingdom of darkness and settled you as a citizen in the kingdom of His Son (Colossians 1:13) that we enter by grace through faith. Thank you, Lord!

 

In Christ, He has redeemed and forgiven you Colossians 1:14). Thank you, Lord!

 

I enjoyed watching peas germinate two weeks after I planted them. Week by week, they pushed steadily upward.

 

Dainty white blossoms appeared. Then pods. Then they were ready to be picked.

 

Is your prayer life developing? I do not always pray as Paul did in Colossians 1. I would like to. Would you?

 

As a practical step, I challenge you to help another Christian grow, blossom, and bear fruit. That is what Paul did.

 

It is the strongest fertilizer for your spiritual growth. As you serve others in this way, you will discover the greatest joy is spending your earthly life for that which outlasts it! What is your takeaway? See additional free spiritual growth resources for Christians. 

 

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