Colossians Prayer

Dear God,

Give us wise minds and spirits that are in tune with your will.

Help us better understand how you are at work all around us.

I pray that we could live well and work hard in ways that honor you.

Grow our knowledge of you, God. Help us know what to do with all you’ve given us.

Give us strength to stick it out over the long haul – not a grim strength that makes us grit our teeth to just get through it… but a God-given strength that spills over with joy and thanksgiving, even when we endure the hardest things imaginable.

And help us live out the purpose for which you made us – a purpose that gives each of us a place in the bright and beautiful things you are doing through your followers.

Amen.

Adapted from Colossian 1:9–12 (NIV & MSG)

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Sam Townsend helps write training, programming and marketing materials for YouthWorks mission trips. When he isn’t hanging around teenagers at church or digging into seminary homework, he is generally looking for a good conversation and a hole-in-the-wall restaurant to have it in. Sam still considers his first couple summers working for YouthWorks in Virginia and Pennsylvania communities some of the most transformative times of his life.