The Ability of God

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Study, Jesus, Preaching, Christianity, Scripture, Spirit, Bible, Holy, Theology, Christian, God, Teaching

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🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The God who is able to answer our greatest requests is worthy of our highest praise. Today, H.B. Charles Jr. visits a prayer in Scripture that teaches us to rely on God’s power to work all things together for His glory and our good.

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Meet Today’s Teacher:

Dr. H.B. Charles Jr. is pastor-teacher of Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church in Jacksonville, FL. He is host of The On Preaching Podcast.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

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0:00.0	If you watch some award show, a person will stand on stage with a list of people to thank after they have received a reward.
0:07.9	Paul says here, if you receive an answer prayer, there is no list of names.
0:12.7	Only one name.
0:14.0	The glory is not to go to them.
0:15.6	It is to go to him.
0:29.9	Why do you pray? Why do you pray? Why do you petition God for circumstances to change? Do you believe that God is able to do what we ask him in prayer when we pray according to His will? Well, he is, and that'll be our
0:36.7	focus as H.B. Charles Jr. joins us for this
0:39.3	Friday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and to close our week, you'll hear a
0:45.8	message from H.B. Charles Jr. series, Blessings and praise, benedictions and doxologies in
0:52.3	scripture. Across eight messages, Dr. Charles Jr. exposit some of the most instructive benedictions and doxologies in Scripture. Across eight messages, Dr. Charles Jr. exposit some of the most
0:57.2	instructive benedictions and doxologies in Scripture. So if you'd like to own this series, until
1:03.1	midnight tonight, you can request it with a donation of any amount at Renewing Your Mind.org.
1:09.5	Do you have a favorite passage of scripture? I think we all do,
1:13.6	even if it's just our present favorite, because it's a text that we've been studying and
1:18.1	meditating upon a lot. Well, today, H.B. Charles Jr., pastor-teacher of Shilohel Metropolitan
1:24.5	Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida, will be teaching on his favorite
1:29.1	doxology. In this session, I want to share with you my favorite doxology from Ephesians
1:37.8	chapter 3, verses 20 and 21. It reads, now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think,
1:51.8	according to the power at work within us. To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus
1:58.2	throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen. The late
2:05.9	Donald Gray Barnhouse once stood in the pulpit of the 10th Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia
2:10.8	and shocked his congregation by announcing prayer changes nothing. But he didn't make this statement for shock value.
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