Your Prayer & God's Power!
"Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly
abundantly above all that we ask or think,
according to the power that works in us."
Ephesians 3:
20
Apostle Paul’s letter to the Ephesians has two
parts: doctrine (chapters 1–3) and application
(chapters 4–6). Paul summarized the first
half
in Ephesians 3:20-21 reminding them of two
topics he addressed earlier: prayer and power.
In Ephesians 1:17-18, Paul mentioned that
he was praying for the Ephesians to know
God better and then know the hope of their
calling, their inheritance, and God’s power.
In case Ephesians thought that those goals
were
too lofty for them to attain, he reminded
them in 3:20 that God is able to do way more
than we ask—“exceedingly abundantly” more.
Why? Because it's His "power that works in us."
Paul chose the best words he could in praying
for the Ephesians, but then told them that God
is able to do even more than he or they could
ask for because of His great power at work in
their lives.
Pray as best as you are able, then know
that God is
able to do even more than you
ask or imagine according to His power in
you.
"Christianity is
the power of
God in the soul of man."
Robert B. Munger
