Staying Strong

"For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light" Colossians 1:9-12

That is a lot to pray for I know. But the key things to pray for ourselves and our soldiers are in this verse. First, we must not stop praying. Then we have to seek God's will for understanding of what we are facing. We all need to remember to please God with our actions and not get on the "pity party wagon". So to do that we have to ask for endurance and patience. Now the thing to take note of here is that God doesn't throw any old power out there, it is the power according to His glorious might. He gives us the same power that He has to get through this. Pray that you and your soldier would be able to sense that power and that we would be so strong that we will give thanks to He who has given us our inheritance of the saints.

In His grace,
Angie