A prayer for the filling of God's power and love by Debbie McDaniel.

I pray that out of his glorious riches, he may strengthen you with power through his

spirit and 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 saints 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 measure of all

the fullness of God.

Ephesians 3, 16-19.

God is powerful and loving, and he desires to fill our lives, our days, with that same power

and love through his Holy Spirit.

Paul prayed this prayer over the Ephesians.

He had spent over three years with these people, working with the Church of Ephesus.

He loved them and longed to see them walking closely with God.

His desire was that they would be continually strengthened with God's power and living

out their faith with the example of the love of Christ.

We can know this in our heads, yet find it difficult at times to walk it out in daily

life.

We're busy, we're tired, we feel alone or broken, we're distracted, we get offended,

we harbor bitterness or resentment.

But no matter what we might be facing or feeling, when we're willing to stand together as the

body of Christ, dependent on God for the Spirit's fresh feeling of power and love, all other

things lose their hold on us.

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