Although it is easy to focus on all the things that are going wrong in our lives, it is not good for us. We should make the effort to think of all the ways God has blessed us and be grateful.

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Introduction It was around 400 years from the time of the first king in Israel to the time of the Babylonian captivity. If you count when God was the king before Saul was anointed, you have about 900 years of the kingdom of Israel or Judah. It would not be hard to think that this kingdom would truly last forever. But then the captivity happened. The temple was destroyed. The nation was truly and fully conquered.

What do we learn about Paul’s prayer for the Colossian brethren? As we look at Colossians 1:3-12, I believe we will see some of the main points of this letter and what we need in our lives as well.