A Prayer for Power

A prayer for the ROCK group...

"For this reason we bow our knees before our Father from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 

that according to the riches of Your glory, You may grant the ROCK Group to be strengthened with power through Your Spirit in our inner being, so that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith,

that we, 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 we may be filled with all Your fullness."

-Ephesians 3:14–19

May our heavenly Father grant to us, according to the riches of His glory: strength, sight, and satisfaction.

1.) Strength--the strength of the Spirit (Acts 1:8 "you will receive power [Gr. dunamis--from which we get "dynamite"] when the Holy Spirit has come upon you") in our inner man where Christ now dwells richly in us (Gal 2:20 "no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me," and Col 3:16 "the word of Christ dwell richly within you").

2.) Sight--only from a position of being rooted deeply and grounded firmly in the love of God (Col 2:6, 7 "as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him") may we have strength to comprehend and see ("Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law" Ps 119:18) the boundless dimensions of God's love for us in Christ.

3.) Satisfaction--the perfect man or woman is the one who is completely full of God ("For in him [Christ] the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily" Col 2:9) and satisfied in Him ("Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days" Ps 90:14).

"Now to You who are able to do far more abundantly than all we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to You be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen." 

-Ephesians 3:20, 21