Good morning -
Our God is too small, or at least our idea of Him. Whatever we can comprehend of Him is miniscule compared to the reality of Him and what He can do. Concerning the infinite possibilities that exist through our Father, the apostle Paul said,
"Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen." (Ephesians 3:20-21)
I can dream up some pretty incredible things that my God can do, but my imagination falls far short of His reality. Whenever I have sought specific things from Him that I thought would be beneficial in service and ministry, He has supplied more than I asked. I remember persistently praying a few years ago for a particular piece of video equipment that would advance our video ministry. He supplied not one unit but three, and a large library of expensive video tapes that were also needed! If these were given "according to my faith" (Matthew 9:29), imagine what could have been done through abundant faith.
With confidence in God's capacity to provide far beyond imagination, Paul sought from Him in prayer what every church and believer needs:
"For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God." (Ephesians 3:14-19)
Paul asked that all believers would receive strengthening power derived from Christ dwelling within, so that we might be firmly established in love and thus be able to understand the fullest extent of the love of Christ that surpasses the limitations of knowledge. In so doing we would be empowered with all the fullness of God within. An impossible task? Not to the God who "is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think".
Our God is too small, but He need not be. When we pray Paul's prayer for ourselves and others our capacity to comprehend Him grows. As the supernatural presence of Christ within grows, He reveals the Father to us, as He promised:
"All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him." (Matthew 11:27)
May today be an adventure in more fully discovering the fullness that we are designed to discover.
Pastor Steve
Our God is too small, or at least our idea of Him. Whatever we can comprehend of Him is miniscule compared to the reality of Him and what He can do. Concerning the infinite possibilities that exist through our Father, the apostle Paul said,
"Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen." (Ephesians 3:20-21)
I can dream up some pretty incredible things that my God can do, but my imagination falls far short of His reality. Whenever I have sought specific things from Him that I thought would be beneficial in service and ministry, He has supplied more than I asked. I remember persistently praying a few years ago for a particular piece of video equipment that would advance our video ministry. He supplied not one unit but three, and a large library of expensive video tapes that were also needed! If these were given "according to my faith" (Matthew 9:29), imagine what could have been done through abundant faith.
With confidence in God's capacity to provide far beyond imagination, Paul sought from Him in prayer what every church and believer needs:
"For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God." (Ephesians 3:14-19)
Paul asked that all believers would receive strengthening power derived from Christ dwelling within, so that we might be firmly established in love and thus be able to understand the fullest extent of the love of Christ that surpasses the limitations of knowledge. In so doing we would be empowered with all the fullness of God within. An impossible task? Not to the God who "is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think".
Our God is too small, but He need not be. When we pray Paul's prayer for ourselves and others our capacity to comprehend Him grows. As the supernatural presence of Christ within grows, He reveals the Father to us, as He promised:
"All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him." (Matthew 11:27)
May today be an adventure in more fully discovering the fullness that we are designed to discover.
Pastor Steve
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