God decides what makes for an authentic relationship with him and he tells me the most thrilling, satisfying, eternity-long relationship you and I could ever have is if I put earnestness for me in your heart.

And I say, put it in.

Put it in.

What makes us want to know and enjoy God.

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper looks at Philippians and First Peter to illustrate

how God's providence relates to our desire to know him.

This seminar was originally given at Bethlehem Baptist Church on January 10th, 1996.

Now the God of peace who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, is a prayer. May he equip you, Christians, with every good thing to do his will.

Working in us that which is pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ

to whom be glory forever and ever.

Amen.

This author is praying that God would equip you with every good thing that you need to do his will.

And stop there. So that's one way of praying it. You should pray that for your

children. Pray that for your neighbors. Pray it for people. There's another way to

say it.

Working in us, this may be the way he equips us with every good thing.

This part of simple right here, you have to ask logically how participles function by putting different

prepositions in front of or different conjunctions like by working in us or through working in us or in order to work within us you got to try different ones and then test by the context which you think would be the case.

May he equip you with everything going to do his will,

working in us,

now that's, you see that's the same as this working right here, I believe, from Philippians.

Working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, and that's this to will and to work right here.

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