Summary of Paul’s Intercessory Prayer in Col 1:3-12; Spiritual Growth Is Made Possible by a Grace System of Perception, 1 Cor 2:4-14
12)	These intercessory prayers appealed for divine grace in the following categories of spiritual growth and application:
1-	That the Colossians might be filled with epignōsis knowledge: cognizance of divine thought in their streams of consciousness.
2-	That this knowledge would instruct them about God’s sovereign purpose: His directive will for each person’s life.
3-	That this knowledge would be the means for developing wisdom: the combination of epignōsis knowledge plus insight for its application to life and circumstances.
4-	That this wisdom would produce esōterikē harmonia: the believer’s soul at harmony with the Word of God.
5-	That this knowledge would also be the means for arriving at spiritual understanding: the production of exōterikē harmonia: the believer at harmony with God and his fellow man.
6-	That with this duel harmony the believer’s manner of life might reflect thought and behavior patterns pleasing to the Lord.
7-	That this disposition of soul would habitually produce divine good and would habitually contribute to continued spiritual growth.
8-	That this production and growth would be by means of epignōsis knowledge from the ultimate source of God which is biblical revelation.
9-	That these things would be constantly strengthened by the enabling power of the filling of the Holy Spirit according to the standard of divine power.
10-	That these things would result in spiritual stability that operates in the sphere of patient endurance as well as self-restraint under pressure.
11-	That the believer would be constantly thankful to God for his grace lifestyle knowing it has qualified him to share in the inheritance of the escrow.
12-	And that all of these things have been made possible by means of truth, the “light”of the Word of God.
		36-	All of the concepts in Colossians 1:3-12 are made possible by a grace system of perception described in:
I Corinthians 2:4 - My [ Paul’s ] message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words [ not taken from Gnosticism ], but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power.
v. 5- Your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the sphere of the power of God.
v. 6 - However, when among mature believers, we keep on teaching wisdom but a wisdom that does not belong to this age nor to the leaders of this world who are becoming ineffective;
v. 7 - but we communicate wisdom from God in a mystery which mystery doctrine has been concealed and which God predesigned before the ages resulting in our glory.
v. 8 - None of the rulers of cosmos diabolicus [ Jewish & Gentile ] understood it for if they had known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;
v. 9 - as it stands written [ Isaiah 64:4 ], “Things [  Ój, hos: plural neuter demonstrative pronoun referring to divine knowledge ] which the eye has not seen and the ear has not heard [ empiricism ] and also doctrines which have not entered into the minds of men [ rationalism ] are those things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
v. 10 -	But to us [ believers filled with the Holy Spirit ] God has revealed them through the Holy Spirit.  The human spirit investigates all things [ p£nta, panta: See W. F. Arndt & F. W. Gingrich, A Greek-English Lexicon, 2d ed.  (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979), 632: “knowledge and teaching”; 1 Cor 2:10) ], even the deep things of God.
v. 11 -	For what man understands the things of man [ t£, ta: plural neuter article: divine knowledge ] except man's spirit within him?  Even so, the things of God [ t£, ta: plural neuter article: divine knowledge ] no one has known except the Holy Spirit.
v. 12 -	But we have not received the world's spirit [ human viewpoint ] but the human spirit from the source of God the Holy Spirit in order that we might have a permanent knowledge of things [ t£, ta: plural neuter article: divine knowledge ] that have been graciously given to us by God.
v. 13 -	Such divine wisdom we teach, not by teaching from the source of human wisdom but by teaching from the source of the Holy Spirit, bringing together spiritual things [ pneumatiko‹j, pneumatikois: dative neuter plural adjective: divine thought ] to a spiritual system.
v. 14 -	The soulish man [ unbeliever with a soul but no human spirit ] does not accept the things from the Holy Spirit
[ t£, ta: plural neuter article: divine knwoledge ] for to him they are foolishness and he is not able to even acquire academic understanding because they are spiritually discerned.