February
18, 2005
To
Him who Is Able To Do Exceedingly Abundantly
Above All That We Ask Or Think
"To
me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace
was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable
riches of Christ, and to make all see what is the fellowship
of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been
hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ,
to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be
made known by the church to the principalities and powers
in the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which
He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have
boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him
"For
this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is
named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of
His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit
in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through
faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be
able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and
length and depth and height-to know the love of Christ which
passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness
of God.
"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, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations,
forever and ever. Amen." (1)
"I
have come that they may have life, and that they may have
it more abundantly." (2)
1. Ephesians
3:8-21.
2. John 10:10.
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