“We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people-the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world-just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s grace. You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf, and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.” Colossians 1:3-8

Lord God, Thank you. My heart overflows with thanks as I think about the dear people who share my faith and who worship with me every Sunday. You have been working and continue to work in their hearts and lives for the gospel. My heart overflows with thanks because of their kindness, their love not just to me but to others as well. More than that, dear Father, my heart swells as I hear reports of what your gospel is doing in places like Africa and Asia, in places where I cannot go and do not live. Your gospel has wings and it is flying through people to those places. Give your servants in those places strength for the work you have given them to do. Most of all, O Spirit, I thank you for winging your Word to me. My faith is one of the greatest miracles of all. Thank you for planting it in me and for sustaining it in me. Keep me in this faith all the days of my life until I reach my home in heaven. Keep me for the treasure you have stored up for me in heaven. Amen.

The Gospel has wings! It has winged its way to my heart and, like a trending topic, it is winging its way into all the world through God’s people. Watch it fly!