Happy Sunday morning to you. I just returned from a wonderful time worshiping God at church this morning and wanted to share a verse with you that I have been reading and praying. To tell you the truth it brought me to tears for you so I felt I had to share it. I’m not trying to be melodramatic–just humble, transparent, and obedient in the hope that it encourages you. In the last two weeks I’ve been overwhelmed by God’s grace and love seeing him at work changing hearts in my wayward sister’s life, an addicted dad of one of my high school students, and a couple of people I minister to overseas. God is always working to strengthen those who turn to him. The apostle Paul prayed for this.
“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:14-19).
What hit me strongly this morning is the two verses that come after this passage:
“Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen” (Ephesians 3:20-21).
As I read the last two verses, God brought you to mind. Do you believe God wants to do a mighty work in your life and in your relationships, job, finances, healing, and hopes? This is an abundant work beyond what you expect or imagine. Are you praying for that? Embrace him and let him melt and mold your heart to his.