I have been enjoying meaningful spiritual growth, spurred on by my accountability partner/dear friend. We have been meeting on a weekly basis for more than a year to discuss God, books we are reading together, and ways the Lord is working in our lives. We also email nearly every day as a way to show accountability that we are investing time in our pursuit.

Below is our exchange from today. Good stuff…

Colossians 1:9-12

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, 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, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.

Paul did not pray that the Colossians be spared suffering. Nor did he request that material wealth be added to their spiritual zeal. He said nothing about illness, or healing, or better jobs, or any of those things for which we pray and ask others to pray on our behalf. Such requests are not always inappropriate, but we see that Paul considered spiritual wisdom, knowledge, and enlightenment of greater value.  –C. Samuel Storms
Praying for Godly wisdom is so important! It opens our minds to God’s heart for us and allows us to respond to life with God’s perspective. How cool would it be to pray this for our husbands, children and future children, and each other – and see how God answers those prayers?!