This is day 18 of our 27 day gratitude and prayer guide in preparation for Thanksgiving. You can download the entire guide here.
Day 3: Respond to Colossians 3:15-17.
On a sheet of paper or in a journal, write down Colossians 3:15-17, but write them in your own words.
Go back and read through your answers and thoughts as you read and reflected on Colossians 3:15-17 over the past two days. Spend some time in solitude, quietly reflecting on the verses and on the things you wrote down.
Find a stranger or a homeless person to bless with a gift of kindness.
Prayer of supplication
Preparation for prayer:
On your paper or in your journal, write down your answers to the following:
What are some ways that you can use the gifts God has given you to help build up other believers?
Who do you know that you can encourage, admonish, or simply join in celebration and gratitude?
Spend time in prayer of supplication
Pray for the things you’ve written down. You can use the following as a guide.
Father, I see that everything that I have is yours. Every possession and every gift comes from you. All of my abilities are given to me by you.
Open my eyes and help me see all these things as the tools that they are. Help me to see how I can help someone else out.
Who might need my teaching, my admonishment, or my encouragement? Is there someone who just needs my presence or my prayers? Who can I spur on to love and good deeds? Who can you bring into my life that can do the same for me?
Let your Spirit work in me that I might have a heart that desires to do all and give all in the name of your Son. I give thanks to you, Oh Lord, through him and in his name. Amen.