Praying Series #23 God's Power

“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.” (Ephesians 3:20-21)

Week 4 – Paul’s Prayers: Paul prays in this amazing doxology that God's glory will be displayed through His mighty acts of power in the church. This is one of Paul's great desires as an apostle and church planter: that people will be saved by God's power, they will be discipled bringing about maturity in Christ, and that God's glory will be proclaimed to the world as it looks at His gospel community. These themes flow through all Paul's letters and his prayers - and they are things that we can learn to be praying for too. It is God's incredible power that can change the heart of a rebel sinner into a heart that loves Him; it is God's incredible power working within us which sustains us as gospel workers and transforms us each day more into the likeness of Christ; and it is God's incredible power (demonstrated in creation, healing, blessing, and crucially the resurrection of Jesus) that displays His glory to the world. It is God's power that is at work in us as we come to serve at Room 65. We cannot ask too much of Him to bless the work, to save people, to give us the stamina to do the work. When we realise the greatness of God in this way, then our prayer lives can become alive because we realise that we can be bold in what we pray for, we can pray in expectancy and confidence that we will see God answer and do incredible things for His glory in this world and in our lives. Let's ask God to move in power in our lives and Room 65 and let's give thinks that He'll probably surprise us as our imaginations cannot even begin to fathom His power!

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Pray today and join us tonight in Wayne’s Office at 8pm praying for Street Reach and Our Confidence in the Gospel:

• Give thanks that we have Almighty God, who we cannot ask too much of, on our side in all that we do for His glory and kingdom in Room 65
• Pray that we all would be convinced of the life changing reality of the gospel and live it out as we serve at Room 65
• Pray that there'll be enough people on the team for us to go out! – pray that God will give you the courage to join us for a night!
• Pray that people would stop to listen and God would open hearts to understand their need of Jesus

Learn more today: Andrew Murray, “With Christ in the School of Prayer”: Twenty-Third Lesson – “Obedience the Path to Power in Prayer”
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