“But you will receive POWER when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth” (Acts 1:8)…

Paul’s Prayer for Power…

In Ephesians chapter 3, Paul informs the Ephesian Christians:

“God has revealed to me a great mystery, namely that both Jews and Gentiles are united as one in the body of Christ, and He has called me to proclaim this message.

For this reason, I pray that you might be strengthened with POWER through His Spirit in the inner man so that you might mature spiritually, be able to comprehend the magnitude of God’s love, and be filled with the fullness of God.”

Ephesians 3:1-21

Paul’s Doxology (An expression of praise to God)

3:20 This prayer closes with a soul-inspiring doxology.

The preceding requests have been vast, bold, and seemingly impossible.

But God is able to do more in this connection than we can ask or think.

The extent of His ability is seen in the manner in which Paul pyramids words to describe superabundant blessings:

• Able
• Able to do
• Able to do what we ask
• Able to do what we think
• Able to do what we ask or think
• Able to do all that we ask or think
• Able to do above all that we ask or think
• Able to do abundantly above all that we ask or think
•Able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think

The means by which God answers prayer is given in the expression according to the power that works in us.

This refers to the Holy Spirit, who is constantly at work in our lives, seeking to produce the fruit of a Christlike character, rebuking us because of sin, guiding us in prayer, inspiring us in worship, directing us in service.

The more we are yielded to Him, the greater will be His effectiveness in conforming us to Christ.

SELAH (let us pause and calmly think about these things)
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Wednesday, April 12
God Calling
by Two Listeners

GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.
— Ephesians 3:20

I am your Guide. Strength and help will come to you; just trust Me wholly.

Fear not. I am evermore ready to hear than you to ask. Walk in My ways, and know that help will come.

Man’s need is God’s chance to help.

I love to help and save. Man’s need is God’s golden opportunity for him of letting his faith find expression.

That expression of faith is all that God needs to manifest His Power.

Faith is the Key that unlocks the storehouse of God’s resources.

My faithful servants, you long for perfection and see your bitter failures.

I see faithfulness, and as a mother takes the soiled, imperfect work of her child and invests it with perfection because of the sweet love, so I take your poor faithfulness and crown it with perfection.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25
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