Praying Series #22 Overflow of Love

“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 the measure of all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:17-19)

Week 4 – Paul’s Prayers: Paul prays that the church would be assured with the knowledge of God’s inexhaustible love shown to us in the person of Jesus Christ; that His love would be the motivation for our new lives of obedience and holiness; and that it would continually cause us to come in reverent awe of God as we realise how incomprehensible that love is to our finite minds. The all conquering love of Jesus is one aspect of the fullness of God, and we are to seek to allow God’s infinite fullness to saturate every area of our lives, filling us to overflowing. John Piper has said that true love for people is the overflow of our hearts filled with the joy of the Lord, which is found in our living relationship with Him. If we are to be displaying Christ in our lives at Room65 this needs to be our prayer, that people who see us will see the fullness of God manifested and overflowing from our lives. Therefore let us strive to be vessels filled with Christ’s love: seek, knock ask for it more in prayer; seek to feed upon it in scripture and meditation upon the Word; remember all that Christ has done and how much He has forgiven you; wait on the Holy Spirit in expectation of a fuller understanding and filling of Christ’s love that comes from that communion with Him in Spirit and Truth.

Listen to this worship music as you come asking to be filled with the love and fullness of God.

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Pray today and join us tonight at 8pm in Wayne’s Office praying for Table Conversations:

• Give thanks for the incredible love of God shown in Jesus which we are to pursue a greater understanding of, but which we can never get our minds around!
• Pray you will be filled up with God’s inexhaustible measure of love to the point where you cannot help but overflow that love to others
• Pray for the Lord to be preparing the ground of the hearts of people who He will be bringing along to Room65
• Pray that the seeds sown through these conversations might yield a crop of repentance and salvation as the Lord continues to work in the lives of those we meet
• Pray that the Lord would provide answers to hard questions

Learn more today: Andrew Murray, “With Christ in the School of Prayer”: Twenty-Second Lesson – “The Word and Prayer”
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