Praying back God’s word is the most powerful prayer you can pray!
This morning I prayed a prayer for all of you from Eph. 3:14-21. I would like you to on occasion pray this for your classmates as I prayed it for you. Substitute the “you” in the passage with your classmates names.
This time I will pray it using the Message paraphrase:
My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen (you) — Alex, David, Felicia, Brie, Morgan, Tyler, Grace, Krista, Linde, Faith, Britt, Ari, Jenna R, Evan, JC, Kelly, Jon, and Geddy by his Spirit — not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength — that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, Alex, David, Felicia, Brie, Morgan, Tyler, Grace, Krista, Linde, Faith, Britt, Ari, Jenna R, Evan, JC, Kelly, Jon, and Geddy will be able to to take in with all Christians the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.
God can do anything, you know — far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.
Glory to God in the Church!
Glory to God in the Messiah, in Jesus!
Glory down all the generations!
Glory through all millennia! Oh, Yes!
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