If you’re new here, Hello! Welcome to this week’s POW (Prayer of the Week). You can find all POW’s under the category POW! on this blog.
To fully understand what POW is read Introducing POW or for a quick summery you can read the First POW.
Prepare
Quiet your heart. Play a worship song or two and surrender your heart fully to Him.
All Hail King Jesus is a personal favorite and From Whom All Blessings Flow is another good one if you’re looking for suggestions. These clickable links are videos that have lyrics so you can worship along.
When you are finished pray a simple prayer asking God to silence all voices that are not His. You want this to be a time for just the two of you. Here’s an example:
Dear God,
I come to You today fully seeking You. Silence all distractions around me. Quiet all voices that are not of You. I desire connection. Protect our time in Jesus’ name, Amen.
Sword
For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,[e] 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you[f] to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1:9-14
Read this a few times. Listen. Write down anything that comes to mind or heart as you read. Underline any words that stand out to you. Write down any questions.
Fight
Taking the scripture, pray and insert yourself or whoever in the blanks.
[I] continually ask God to fill _________ with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,[e] 10 so that _________ may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that __________ may have great endurance and patience, 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified ___________[f] to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Example:
[I] continually ask God to fill ____me_____ with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,[e] 10 so that ____I_____ may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that _____I_____ may have great endurance and patience, 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified _____me______[f] to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Pray with emphasis where He lays emphasis on your heart. Insert whoever He brings to mind… and keep praying. Don’t stop! Whatever and whoever He lays on your heart, go after it!
Ask questions. Wait, listen. Pray. Pray for wisdom, discernment… just pray and lean into Him.
He may lead you to other scriptures or boldly highlight a person to lift up. He may allow you to feel what someone else is feeling. There is no limit to what God will do when you give Him your heart and time.
Rest
Rest in hope and walk confidently knowing God is with you, He is for you and you have given the fight to Him.
In you, Lord my God, I put my trust. I trust in you… No one who hopes in you will ever be put to shame… Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long… My eyes are ever on the Lord… Relieve the troubles of my heart and free me from my anguish… for I take refuge in you. May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope, Lord, is in you.
Taken from Psalm 25
As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”
Romans 10:11
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
Hebrews 11:1
