BIG IDEA: Prayer isn’t meant to put God into alignment with what we want ; it is meant to align us with who He wants us to become.

Day 1

Featured Verse: Colossians 1:9–10
- Where in your life do you most need to be filled with the knowledge of God’s will, and what would that look like in practice?
- What does it mean for you to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord right now, in the relationships and responsibilities you actually have?
- How is growing in the knowledge of God changing the way you think, decide, and live, and where do you still feel stuck or shallow?

“See! the apostle asks for them something more even than faith, and hope, and love,—that they ‘might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.’ This shows what a valuable thing it is to know and understand the will of God. If we have faith, and hope, and love, it is desirable that we add to these a fullness of knowledge, and to this holiness of life and fruitfulness of service.” - Charles Spurgeon

Day 2

Featured Verse: Colossians 1:11–12
- Where do you most need God’s strength right now?
- What would endurance look like in the place where you are tired of waiting, and patience look like in the place where people wear you down?
- How has joy been missing from your endurance, and what would it mean to suffer or persist with joy rather than merely through it?

“The righteousness of Christ is doubtless necessary for any soul that enters into glory: but so is personal holiness too, for every child of man. But it is highly needful to be observed, that they are necessary in different respects. The former is necessary to entitle us to heaven; the latter to qualify us for it. Without the righteousness of Christ we could have no claim to glory; without holiness we could have no fitness for it. By the former we become members of Christ, children of God, and heirs of the kingdom of heaven. By the latter we are made meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.” - John Wesley

Day 3

Featured Verse: Colossians 1:13–14
- What does it mean that you were not merely improved, but transferred into another kingdom?
- How does belonging to the Son change the way you think about loyalty, identity, and who rules your life?
- If you really believed you had been brought out of darkness into the kingdom of the beloved Son, what would change in your fear, your shame, or your hope this week?

“The verb is often employed by the classical writers to signify the deportation of a body of men, or the removal of them to form a colony. The term is therefore an expressive one. The Colossians had been lifted out of the realm of darkness, their original seat and habitation, and they had been carried into the kingdom of His Son, and colonized in it. They were not as emigrants in search of a home. … ‘The kingdom of His Son’ is plainly that kingdom which has Christ for its Head and Founder—which is partially developed on earth, and shall be finally perfected in heaven.” - John Eadie