Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15. The title of our post today is

Our Prayers Release God's Power. Over the past weekend, I watched a portion of the Bible,

a television mini-series released in 2013. In this production, they included the

account of Peter, healing a lame man in Acts 3. I was fascinated, as I always am when meditating

on this event. Here was a man, Peter, who had denied knowing Jesus just a few

weeks prior, doing so while cursing, mind you, being used to perform one of the greatest

miracles of healing in Scripture. Peter's words stuck out to me, as they always do, such as I have, give I thee.

What exactly did Peter have? Ephesians 3, 20, and 21, gives us the answer. Now to him who is able to do exceeding abundantly

beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to him be glory,

the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever.

Today, you're going to get professor sheets. So put on your student hat, put it on,

and follow with me. The phrase, exceeding abundantly beyond, exceeding abundantly beyond, is difficult to translate.

It is actually one compound word in the Greek text, Hooper Ekparisou. Hooper Ekparaisu.

This word isn't even found in older Greek literature, but shows up in biblical writings.

In other words, a new word was coined to describe God's power.

The root word, parisos, in and of itself.

Hooper-Ek parisot. The root word, parisos, in and of itself, means superabundant. In other words, more than abundant, or more than enough,

the added prefix, Hooper, Hooper Parasaz, however, gives the word another beyond or more than.

His power is more than more than enough, more than. His power is more than, more than enough. More than, more than enough. If that weren't

enough, pun intended, Eck added to the word Hooper Eck Parasas or Persew, strengthens it further. This new word, Hooper-Eck parasos, or Persew, strengthens it further.

This new word, Hooper-Eck-Pers-U literally means super abundantly, with more added to that,

or beyond more than enough, or perhaps more than, more than, more than enough, and more. Pretty good. It is so important

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