And so these are two requests for power: Power! – so that Christ might make His home in our hearts Power! So that we might grasp more and more of His love. You wanna talk about power? Talk about these things. Is God’s power at work in St James church? Well is Christ dwelling in our hearts? And are we grasping more and more of His love? And I wanna close this morning with just one application: its very simple and its very practical. Will you pray for these two things? After all that’s what Paul does here. He doesn’t challenge us or give us any commands or corrections or rebukes. He simply prays. Did you notice how he prays in verse 14? He says, “I kneel before the Father”. This doesn’t mean that we have to kneel every time we pray to God. There are other references in the Bible to people standing when they pray. What’s important here is the attitude of our hearts. We need to kneel before God in our hearts. Its an attitude of submission. Its an attitude of dependency. Recognizing that He is the Sovereign God. The ruler. The King. He’s the One with power to do what we are asking. And so it doesn’t matter whether ur an unsaved person here or a saved person. We all need these same two things. We need to pray for Christ to dwell in our hearts. And we need to pray for Him to reveal to us His love. I’v set myself a “beginning of the 2nd term new year’s resolution”: for the rest of this year: I wanna pray for these two things every day? Maybe you’ll do the
And so these are two requests for power: Power! – so that Christ might make His home in our hearts Power! So that we might grasp more and more of His love. You wanna talk about power? Talk about these things. Is God’s power at work in St James church? Well is Christ dwelling in our hearts? And are we grasping more and more of His love? And I wanna close this morning with just one application: its very simple and its very practical. Will you pray for these two things? After all that’s what Paul does here. He doesn’t challenge us or give us any commands or corrections or rebukes. He simply prays. Did you notice how he prays in verse 14? He says, “I kneel before the Father”. This doesn’t mean that we have to kneel every time we pray to God. There are other references in the Bible to people standing when they pray. What’s important here is the attitude of our hearts. We need to kneel before God in our hearts. Its an attitude of submission. Its an attitude of dependency. Recognizing that He is the Sovereign God. The ruler. The King. He’s the One with power to do what we are asking. And so it doesn’t matter whether ur an unsaved person here or a saved person. We all need these same two things. We need to pray for Christ to dwell in our hearts. And we need to pray for Him to reveal to us His love. I’v set myself a “beginning of the 2nd term new year’s resolution”: for the rest of this year: I wanna pray for these two things every day? Maybe you’ll do the