Joel Kim
speaker
1,172 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Joel Kim’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He always prays, and he prays with thankfulness.
And in fact, he says this again in verse 9 in chapter 1 when he says, And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, Paul says to the Colossians.
This doesn't mean that prayer for Paul was an incessant mystical experience, nor is this an example of a hyperbolic and exaggerated language to actually make a point.
Rather, what Paul is trying to point out is that he daily maintains a spirit of prayer as he pursued his normal activities.
His mind was on the Lord and his mind was prayerful as he pursued his daily activities.
We know that prayer is on his mind.
And the reason we know that is that there is a bit of an enveloping effect in the book of Colossians.
As he begins with prayer in chapter four, the last chapter of book of Colossians, he ends with prayer.
You know how this always is.
The last thing you say is some of the more memorable things you want to leave behind.
As we sent off our first daughter off to college last year, even as we're dropping her off as parents, we're giving her all kinds of instructions.
But these last minute instructions are not unimportant ones.
They may be the most important ones as we tell her, eat always.
Don't skip a meal, we might tell her.
And we come to recognize that Paul not only begins with a prayer, he ends with prayer when he says in chapter 4, verse 2, Continue steadfastly in prayer.
Notice his theme?
He says he always prays.
He has never ceased to pray for them.
And he ends the book by simply saying, continue steadfastly in prayer.
This seems to be a consistent theme throughout the writings of Paul.
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