Philippians 1:9-11 -  Paul's prayer for the saints
Channel: Mark 4:11 / John 3:27 - Unto you it is given
Date: 2023-03-24

We examine the nature of Paul's prayer for the saints in Philippi as he exhorts them.  While we consider many things in prayer, we often forget about the fundamentals: our identity in Christ, our role as saints set apart from the world and, last but not least, the Pillar of our faith, our Rock Jesus Christ.

Be blessed in the Name of YEHOSHUA HA'MASHIACH (Jesus Christ).
Allelu-YAH.  Amen.

Note: At 12:53 ''unfruitful' in the knowledge'

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COLOSSIANS 1:9-11 KJV
9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness

EPHESIANS 6:19 KJV
And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel

JAMES 1:5-6,17,27 and 3:13-17 KJV
1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
3:13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
3:14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
3:15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
3:16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

PROVERBS 1:7,4:7 and 9:10 KJV
1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

1 PETER 2:2 KJV
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby

2 CORINTHIANS 11:2 KJV
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ

MATTHEW 5:14-16 KJV
14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven

1 JOHN 1:5 KJV
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all

1 PETER 1:16, 2:12 KJV
1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
2:12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation

GALATIANS 6:9 KJV
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not

2 SAMUEL 2:19 KJV
And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner

EXODUS 18:22-24 KJV
22 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said

JAMES 5:16 KJV
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much

HEBREWS 4:16 KJV 
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need

1 TIMOTHY 2:1 KJV
I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men

EPHESIANS 6:18 KJV
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints