What Are You Praying For?

Verde Valley Christian Church

Series: Filled, Complete, Whole
Title: "What Are You Praying For"
Speaker: Derek Beauchamp

What are you praying for?

Santa Prayer
Uh-oh Prayers
50/50 Prayers

Colossians 4:2
Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.

I. CONSISTENT Prayer is TRANSFORMATIONAL Prayer

Colossians 4:2
Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.

II. Prayers of thanks give PERSPECTIVE TO OUR LIVES

Colossians 4:3-4
And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should.

III. Pray for GOD'S KINGDOM

Colossians 4:5-6
Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

IV. Pray in a way that PUSHES YOU TO BE MORE LIKE JESUS

Because of My Christmas Clothes

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Series: Filled, Complete, Whole
Title: "Because of My Christmas Clothes"
Speaker: Jim Hammond

Colossians 3:9-10
Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

Colossians 3:12
Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

Colossians 3:14
And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

Colossians 2:20
Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules:

Colossians 3:1
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

I. Take OFF your FILTHY RAGS

Colossians 3:6-7
Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.

II. Put on CHRIST'S CHARACTER

Colossians 3:10
and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

Because I'm Raised to a New Life

Verde Valley Christian Church
Dec 12, 2021

Series: Filled, Complete, Whole
Title: "Because I'm Raised to a New Life"
Speaker: Jim Hammond

Colossians 3:1-4
So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

I. SEEK His KINGDOM

Colossians 3:1-2
So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

II. Seek, SET, Live

Colossians 3:2
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

III. Your Life is now HIDDEN with Christ

Colossians 3:3-4
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

IV. Does Jesus have a place in your life?

Colossians 3:4
When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Because of the Sufficiency of Jesus

Verde Valley Christian Church

Series: Filled, Complete, Whole
Title: "Because of the Sufficiency of Jesus"
Speaker: Jim Hammond

Colossians 2:6-10
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ. For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.

I. WALK in Christ

Colossians 2:6
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,

Colossians 2:6
Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,

1. REPENT
2. RECEIVE
3. RESIST
4. REPLACE

II. Rooted and FILLED

Colossians 2:7
rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

III. Reject COUNTERFEITS

Colossians 2:8
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.

“For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.”

‭‭Colossians‬ ‭2:9-10‬ ‭NIV‬‬

https://bible.com/bible/111/col.2.9-10.NIV