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Colossians chapter 2, verses 2 and 3, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together

in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery

which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. What a great couple

of verses with such powerful imagery about followers of Jesus' brothers and sisters in Christ,

being knit together in love. And that a great picture to be knit together with other followers

of Jesus in love as together you reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding

and the knowledge of God's mystery, you're growing together to experience the full riches

of what it means to be in Christ and Christ to be in you as we prayed about and see in Colossians 1

27. But the phrase I want to focus on as we pray is the very first phrase in Colossians 2 verse 2.

It says that their hearts may be encouraged and this is what Paul is saying in the verse right

before this. He basically says, I want to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those

that lay out of Sia, and for all who have not seen me face to face, I want their hearts to be

encouraged. And then he goes on that they would be knit together in love and reach all the full

assurance of understanding and knowledge of God's mystery which is Christ. He wants their hearts

to be encouraged. And I just want us to think about the opportunity we have today to encourage

somebody else's heart like as followers of Jesus and specifically thinking about a brother

sister in Christ. Can I just encourage you challenge you to look for an opportunity today to

encourage someone else's heart in Christ, encourage somebody else with all they have in Christ

and just speak words into their life that will build them up today in Christ.

Like go out of your way, be intentional about encouraging somebody's heart. There are brothers

and sisters in Christ who are inevitably hurting in different ways, who are discouraged in different

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