For this reason, since the day we heard about you, 

we have not stopped praying for you and asking God 
to fill you with the knowledge of His will 

through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. 

And we pray this in order that you may 

live a life worthy of the Lord 
and may please Him in every way: 

bearing fruit in every good work, 

growing in the knowledge of God, 

being strengthened with all power 
according to His glorious might 

so that you may have great endurance and patience, 

and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, 

who has qualified you to share in 
the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. 

[ Colossians 1: 9-12  ]