Colossians #2 - Praying Under Pressure

The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 30 April 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

What have been some of the toughest seasons of your entire life? How did you respond? What did your prayer life look like? If you really want to get to know someone (including yourself), listen to their prayers under pressure. Who we really are, how we really feel, and what we really believe are revealed most clearly when we pray. To open his letter to a young church, Paul prays. Although he is in a jail cell far away and unable to visit the church, he can pray for them and write to them. This selfless act shows the heart of someone who is content even in crisis. Despite hardship, Paul is not jealous or covetous of other Christians who are living an easier life. No, he rejoices with them, prays for them, and encourages them with 3 evidences of real Christianity, 4 encouragements of real Christianity, and 7 exciting gifts that God has for us! This packed prayer is like a bucket of fresh, cold, life-giving water drawn from a deep well poured out to nourish God’s people.

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0:00.0	Howdy, Pastor Mark Triscoll here at the Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona.
0:03.3	Really excited to provide for you the series of sermons based on the Book of Colossians.
0:09.4	It's an amazing book of the New Testament where the Apostle Paul is writing from prison to a newly planted
0:16.8	church and we took a few months here at the Trinity Church to go verse by verse through
0:21.5	this book of the Bible. I've had the honor of preaching
0:23.8	and teaching perhaps a few dozen books of the Bible in my career and this is the first
0:28.1	time I've ever been through Colossians and I'm really excited that you can join me.
0:33.0	All right, if you've got your Bible, go to the book of Colossians.
0:37.0	It's in the New Testament.
0:39.0	We're going to spend a couple of months doing a deep dive through this book of the Bible and how many of you at least maybe you were like me when I first read the Bible I thought love joy
0:47.1	peace hope all this nice encouraging have a good attitude love people forgive people my first inclination is a new
0:54.0	Christian was that person must have a very easy life and man they must not live a life
0:59.3	like mine filled with hardship and difficulty and and trial and temptation and trouble.
1:05.0	I bet you they don't understand what it's like to live my life.
1:07.6	And then I started studying the Bible and I realized a lot of these books were written from where.
1:13.0	Prison, jail.
1:15.2	It's an ancient Roman jail is not camp cupcake.
1:18.0	I'll tell you that.
1:18.8	It's a real situation.
1:20.6	And so what we find in Colossians,
1:22.0	you're gonna find a a message today a prayer actually
1:24.7	about faith and hope and love written by a guy who is suffering in prison his name is is Paul and by way of preface two things happen when
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