Notes of Faith August 24, 2024
Prayer and Power
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.
Ephesians 3:20
The apostle Paul’s letter to the Ephesians has two parts: doctrine (chapters 1–3) and application (chapters 4–6). Paul summarized the first half in Ephesians 3:20-21 by reminding them of two topics he addressed earlier: prayer and power.
In Ephesians 1:17-18, Paul mentioned that he was praying for the Ephesians to know God better and to know the hope of their calling, their inheritance, and God’s power. In case the Ephesians thought that those goals were too lofty for them to ever attain, he reminded them in 3:20 that God is able to do even more than we ask for—“exceedingly abundantly” more. Why? Because it is His “power that works in us.” Paul chose the best words he could in praying for the Ephesians, but then told them that God is able to do even more than he or they could ask for because of His great power at work in their lives.
Pray as best as you are able, then know that God is able to do even more than you ask or imagine according to His power in you.
Christianity is the power of God in the soul of man.
Robert B. Munger
2 Corinthians 9:8-10
8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. 9 As it is written:
“He has dispersed abroad,
He has given to the poor;
His righteousness endures forever.”
10 Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
NKJ
Over my years of following Christ as a believer, I have learned to pray more and yet continue to be amazed at the work of God that can be seen clearly if people would be more observant…and believe. I have tried to be a man of prayer, and thought that I was not doing enough. But God knows my heart, the love for man that He put there and the caring thoughts that I have for His created people, wanting them to repent and turn and come to Him for forgiveness and salvation in faith believing in Jesus, He came to earth, lived a perfect life, died as a sacrifice for the sin of mankind, then defeated death by rising from the grave on the third day and lives forever that we too, might have eternal life by believing in Him.
Come to Jesus! Share the truth of Jesus! There is no other name by which we can be saved!
Pastor Dale