2022-2-6, Christ Above All, We Speak Out About Christ, Colossians 4:2-6
INTRODUCTION
OPENING
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MAIN POINT
BODY
SPEECH IN PRAYER
Colossians 4:2
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Colossians 4:3-4
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4544 Moravians’ Hundred-Year Prayer
When God was visiting the Moravians in the early days, they organized at Herrnhut two praying bands, one of men and the other of women, each with twenty-four members. These bands set apart one man and one woman to pray every hour of the day, so that the men in their place and the women in theirs were praying continuously during the twenty-four hours.
This double prayer, unbroken through every day, was maintained for a hundred years. During this period there emerged the Moravian Mission movement in which the missionary church grew three times as large as the home church. The Moravians were used to give new light on essential Bible truths to John and Charles Wesley, thus preparing them for the revival that swept England and reached America.
—Sunday School Times
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Colossians 4:5-6
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You have no right to say, “I am a believer in Christ, but I do not make a profession of my faith.” The profession of your faith is, under the gospel, just as much your duty as the faith itself is. Indeed, I venture to say that true faith necessitates a confession of some sort. If a man believes the great truths of which I have been speaking, he cannot altogether conceal his belief in them; his conviction of their truth is bound to come out sooner or later, and the sooner it comes out, the better.
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Clock Of Life
The clock of life is wound but once,
And no man has the power
To say just when the hands will stop;
At late, or early hour.
Now is the only time we own
to do His precious will,
Do not wait until tomorrow;
For the clock may then be still.
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