Continuing in our study of prayer as part of the PPOG for the spiritual life of the believer we are now looking at Paul and Timothy's prayer for the believer's spiritual growth in Col 1:9-12;

In verse 9 we have "Since the day we heard of you, [we] have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you ” may be filled (pleroo) with the knowledge (epignosis) of His will (thelema) and all spiritual wisdom (sophia) and understanding (sunesis).

Last time we saw that at salvation, because of the believer's union with TLJC God sent his Son to live in them by means of the Holy Spirit and that Paul the apostle to the church labored in Bible Doctrine so that the Son in the believer would grow up and re-present TLJC by manifesting the virtues of the Spirit that are a product of his life.

These virtues are manufactured in believers who follow the lead of " the Spirit of the Son who are not under the law to produce rightness Gal 5:18;

They are under the influence of the One who is Righteous and who produces rightness in those who wait Gal 5:5; not to those who work at pursuing their own righteousness.

In the same way that God is being found by those who never sought Him (The gentiles) Rom 10:20;. He is also blessing those who do not work Rom 1:17: Rom 4:4-5,16; those who wait from a position of faith rest in the Spirit.

While they are waiting, they are functioning by means of faith rest inside the PPOG through their continuous PMA of Bible Doctrine. They are not working but they are doing the work of God simply by believing John 6:28-29;

They aren't concerned with any identity or standing or position that they have by means of first birth, but they are occupied with TLJC and the power from God which is poured into them by means of faith through the Love of God Gal 5:6