Colossians 1:15-23 as Prayer

Pray this today:

Jesus, you are the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by you all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things were created through you and for you. And you are before all things, and in you all things hold together. And you are the head of the body, the church. You are the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything you might be preeminent. For in you all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through you to reconcile to yourself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of your cross.

And we, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, you have now reconciled in your body of flesh by your death, in order to present us holy and blameless and above reproach before you, if indeed we continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that we heard.