From K-Love books, We're So Blessed is a new 40-day family-oriented devotional written to help your family recognize God's hand in your everyday lives, and to realize how truly blessed you are as a child of God.

Authored by three siblings who make up the Christian music group Kane, We're So Blessed, offers a personal glimpse into their childhood and family,

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A link is also in today's show notes.

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Yeah. Access more. Welcome to my dining room table for the Cultivate Podcast. This is Kelly Mentor, and I am so glad that you are here with me today. I really need to just post a picture of what this looks like. It's not fancy by any stretch of the imagination, but at least maybe you would have a kind of an image of how I think of this time with you. So I really just kind of try to picture you across the table for me as we talk through different passages of scripture.

And hopefully this is just an encouragement for you each week.

And everything that I'm sharing is something

that I have gone through myself or studied myself or something that's been meaningful to me.

So I hope that you know that I'm always trying to kind of push through the grid of my own

life as well. And today is no exception. In fact, I just had the opportunity to teach on this passage.

In fact, I'll just tell you, we're going to be in Colossians chapter one today.

But I just had the opportunity to teach on this really recently. And it was the first time I had

ever taught on it. And I thought, okay, I definitely want to turn this into a podcast episode because we are going

to be really looking through a prayer that the Apostle Paul prayed for the church at Colossi,

for these believers that he was writing to. And it is a prayer that I often pray when I don't know what else to pray or when I just simply

want to know that I'm praying the will of God. And this prayer gives me words to pray.

And maybe you're in that situation right now where you want to pray but you don't always have

the words to pray or you just really want to pray but you don't always have the words to pray, or you just really

want to know that you're grabbing the handlebars of a prayer that is something that is

absolutely going to be along the lines of the will of God. And so this prayer in Colossians

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