Joel Kim
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5 recordings
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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Consistency in prayer.
As he says in 1 Thessalonians 5, verse 17, a verse that you and I know well, pray unceasingly, he says.
We recognize that the pressures are upon us always where the world tells us that a marker of maturity is when we become more and more independent.
For those of us who raise children, we recognize when he is able to walk on his own, when she is able to tie her own shoes, when he is able to play outside without fear, when she is able to ride her bike, when he drives, she goes off to college, he gets married, buys a home.
These are all the milestones we look forward to seeing someone grow up.
And these are seen by the world as independence markers of maturity.
But for those of us who are in Christ Jesus, the older we get, the wiser we get, the more knowledge we gain, we come to recognize we don't know as much as we think we do.
We're not as wise as we once thought that we were.
We can't do as much as we thought we could, and the more we age, we become ever more dependent.
And as believers, the marker of maturity for Christians is not independence away from the Lord, it's greater dependence upon the Lord.
And Paul displays this for us, not only by telling us to pray,
He shows it to us by showing his life of prayer to us.
He always prays for the Colossians, he says.
But it's not only about the constancy of prayer, it's about the characteristic of prayer.
We mentioned at the end of the last lesson that thankfulness seems to be an important part of Paul's life.
And in fact, a reminder to all of us to be thankful.
Colossians chapter 1 verse 3 begins with, we always thank God.
And in fact, he ends this paragraph in verse 12 with the words, giving thanks.
Thanks.
He says, he says this in Romans chapter one, verse eight.
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