2/2 :: filled to the measure...
read ephesians 3:14-21, focusing on verses 16 and 17a.
the heart is our command center, influencing our moral and ethical decisions. paul’s prayer is that the power of God will fully dwell in the hearts of the people in this church. why pray this? because the dwelling of Jesus Christ affects everything. he takes over our hearts, our command center. the empowering Spirit and indwelling Christ move us to live abundant lives. we often wonder how God can ever use us to further his kingdom. we know our faults, shortcomings, issues… and yet, the beauty of it all is that those are the very things he uses. his indwelling makes us alive and we begin to live like he lived. the changes in our lives can only be credited to him, and he uses our transformation to draw people to himself. don’t believe it is possible for you? paul believes in a God of impossibilities… read v.20.
the purity we long for… a life filled with the “fullness of God”… a life that is changed on the inside and outside… all the things that are “immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine”… the life you’ve always wanted is possible. God is ready to unleash his power into your life.
† take paul’s prayer for the church in ephesus (eph 3:14-21) and pray this prayer for yourself.
the heart is our command center, influencing our moral and ethical decisions. paul’s prayer is that the power of God will fully dwell in the hearts of the people in this church. why pray this? because the dwelling of Jesus Christ affects everything. he takes over our hearts, our command center. the empowering Spirit and indwelling Christ move us to live abundant lives. we often wonder how God can ever use us to further his kingdom. we know our faults, shortcomings, issues… and yet, the beauty of it all is that those are the very things he uses. his indwelling makes us alive and we begin to live like he lived. the changes in our lives can only be credited to him, and he uses our transformation to draw people to himself. don’t believe it is possible for you? paul believes in a God of impossibilities… read v.20.
the purity we long for… a life filled with the “fullness of God”… a life that is changed on the inside and outside… all the things that are “immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine”… the life you’ve always wanted is possible. God is ready to unleash his power into your life.
† take paul’s prayer for the church in ephesus (eph 3:14-21) and pray this prayer for yourself.
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5.1.06
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ann, at 3.2.06
for this reason, i bow in my need before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. i pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen me with power through his Spirit in my inner being, so that Christ may dwell in my heart through faith. And i pray that i, being rooted and established in love, my have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that i may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all i can ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within me, to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever!
amen.
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ann, at 3.2.06
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