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I pray for you today, purpose, grace, and life that defies death.
"For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God."
"Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen."- Ephesians 3:14-21 (ESV)
So them for strength emanating from infinite power, Christ, himself dwelling in you by his infinite Spirit, perceptions growing, life continually rooting, grounding, growing in infinite love - these things, for you, I pray. That you may know more than you can know, be more than you can be, and do more than you can do, infinite, eternal blessings to you - my prayer for you.
May you live until you die, in and on purpose.
"Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints." - Psalm 116:15 (ESV)
Something in us longs for a sense of conclusion as long as that conclusion is culmination of purpose. Sainthood presupposes purpose and closure in accordance with purpose. Let us live with the peace that in the last chapter of our lives, God has determined to bring precious meaning and to fulfill His purposes in us.
"For you have delivered my soul from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling;
I will walk before the LORD
in the land of the living." - Psalm 116:8-9 (ESV)
We are not dead, but living. Life has overcome spiritual death. Even in temporal death, we focus on life. I pray that you may live fully today.
Death was a reality in my life. The LORD delivered me.
Tears were in my eyes. The LORD gave healed me.
My feet kept stumbling. His hand steadied me.
I was unsure where to walk. He led me and ...
I walk before Him in the land of the living.
When your heart belongs to God and is, essentially set on the purposes of God, a new shaping begins to take place.
"May he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans!" - Psalm 20:4 (ESV)
None of this is perfected in time and space, but, to the extent that it is dominant reality of our lives, it does affect our desires. Our desires exist at multilevel layers. They are not all-together free of corruption, but neither are they all-together corrupt. We must listen to our emerging desires, inner stirrings, and subliminal awareness because it is often at that layer that our minds, hearts, and spirits are sorting out the scriptures and insights that God is giving us through many sources all at once. It is those desires that we want Him to fulfill because they are His desires and they are our deepest desires.
Out of those desires flow the legitimate dreams, visions, and plans for the future He purposes for us.
Listen to your desires and prayerfully examine your plans. Do not dismiss them, but dig deeper into them. Examine them in the light of scripture and prayer, peeling away the layers until you discover what God is saying to you in and through them.
Grace to you this day.
Free flowing, fresh, thirst quenching, life altering, mind bending, countenance lifting, laughter evoking, heart wrenching, heart mending, sweet, precious grace to you.
Grace to you that is greater than than sin, disappointment, and fear.
Grace to you that is so flavored with giddy God joy that no bitter words can shatter its confidence and all swords of disparagement pass through it like knives through Jello. Grace, grace, grace to you.
Grace to you that lifts you and challenges you.
May grace that cannot be contained in you, be in you and flow through you to others today.
If you do not believe as I do, that grace can come in a person and dwell within you, may grace still surround you and may people of grace be gracious unto you.
Sing grace;
dance grace;
live grace.
Grace to you.
These thing, I pray for you today.
