Want a better life?
Want the best life?
Where is it found?
In God
In relationship with him and living from the flow of being "in him"
Ephesians 3:16 - 21
16 May He grant you out of the riches of His glory, to be strengthened and spiritually energized with power through His Spirit in your inner self, [indwelling your innermost being and personality], 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through your faith. And may you, having been [deeply] rooted and [securely] grounded in love, 18 be fully capable of comprehending with all the saints (God’s people) the width and length and height and depth of His love [fully experiencing that amazing, endless love]; 19 and [that you may come] to know [practically, through personal experience] the love of Christ which far surpasses [mere] knowledge [without experience], that you may be filled up [throughout your being] to all the fullness of God [so that you may have the richest experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded with God Himself].
20 Now to Him who is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly more than all that we dare ask or think [infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, hopes, or dreams], according to His power that is at work within us, 21 to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen.
These verses summarise our life In God.
First Paul prays for us to be so filled with his love ......I pray God will bring us into such a revelation of his love, may we understand how high and deep that love is and therefore live out of that expectancy.
Truly when we know God's love we become unshakable. All that happens externally doesn't move us.
Every look at a palm or coconut tree during a storm. It doesn't uproot unless something is wrong with the root system. As tall as the tree grows is the more intensive the root system grows. During a storm, I have witnessed those trees bending way down to one side and when the wind blows from the other side of the storm the tree bends to the other side in the direction of the wind.
May we stay on bended knees in prayer during our storms. Adjusting with the force of the winds but remaining dependent on God assured of his love.
There is no other way to get through these perilous times....
May we rest and abide in Christ assured of God's love. His love for us is not for today but for an eternity. I pray that above all else he will give you that assurance and that you will actually feel the sweet presence of God as he holds you in his everlasting arms
Amen
Walk good in Christ
Till we meet again
Pastor J
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