We can Endure with HIS grace and Power!

Colossians 1:3-12 (The Message)

3Our prayers for you are always spilling over into thanksgivings. We can't quit thanking God our Father and Jesus our Messiah for you!4We keep getting reports on your steady faith in Christ, our Jesus, and the love you continuously extend to all Christians.5The lines of purpose in your lives never grow slack, tightly tied as they are to your future in heaven, kept taut by hope.6It's the same all over the world. The Message bears fruit and gets larger and stronger, just as it has in you. From the very first day you heard and recognized the truth of what God is doing, you've been hungry for more.7It's as vigorous in you now as when you learned it from our friend and close associate Epaphras. He is one reliable worker for Christ! I could always depend on him.8He's the one who told us how thoroughly love had been worked into your lives by the Spirit.9Be assured that from the first day we heard of you, we haven't stopped praying for you, asking God to give you wise minds and spirits attuned to his will, and so acquire a thorough understanding of the ways in which God works.10We pray that you'll live well for the Master, making him proud of you as you work hard in his orchard. As you learn more and more how God works, you will learn how to do your work.11We pray that you'll have the strength to stick it out over the long haul - not the grim strength of gritting your teeth but the glory-strength God gives. It is strength that endures the unendurable and spills over into joy,12thanking the Father who makes us strong enough to take part in everything bright and beautiful that he has for us.