“I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge —that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”
Ephesians 3:16-19
We were challenged last Sunday with some homework.
It was this: pray the above scriptures daily and see how your life changes.
Have you done that?
If so, don’t stop.
I would even encourage you to begin to pray it for others as well.
But there was more homework…
In addition to the prayer there were also three questions to pose to yourself (and maybe others) as you take stock of the impact God’s love has had in your life.
Here they are –
How has God’s love in you made a difference in the way you show love to others?
How do you think others would describe the difference God’s love has made in you?
What might be hindering you from loving others the way God loves you?
In this blog it is not typical for me to simply copy the notes or comments from the outline given on Sunday but I think the value of doing that this week is great so I have done just that.
Obviously, you can read this blog and do nothing with the prayer or the questions.
The same is true of the outline from Sunday.
But if you use them as suggested there is great opportunity for you to grow spiritually.
Won’t you take the time after reading this to go back through and
take some spiritual inventory?
Use the prayer and the questions to allow the Holy Spirit to speak to you
about the love of God being more greatly manifested in your life.
By doing so may you become more and more “…rooted and established in love…”
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