Following Jesus to reach my Destiny ,by following my Leader
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Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
If Paul had not dispensed to the Gentiles the stewardship of God’s grace, then Jews would not have been hostile to him and he would not have been imprisoned.
His preaching brought salvation to the Gentiles, but it incurred the wrath of many Jews on him. However, many others became members of the church, Christ’s body, and this was their glory.
Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
The first prayer is for believers to know their power; the second is for them to use it.
Two things a pastor should be most concerned about are telling his people who they are in Christ and then urging them to live like it
Prayer: The prayer was for a specific cause, a specific purpose
The reason about which Paul speaks is therefore found in chapter 2.
Christ makes us spiritually alive in Him (2:5),
we are “His workmanship” (v. 10),
“no longer strangers and aliens, but … fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household” (v. 19),
“built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets” (v. 20),
and “are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit” (v. 22).
For this reason, therefore (that our new identity makes us the dwelling place of God),
Paul prays for the Ephesians to use the power that their great status in Christ provides. Because God’s power is in those believers, Paul prays that God would enable them to employ the fullness of that power.
Because believers are the habitation of the triune, all-powerful God of the universe, Paul prays that their unlimited energy from Him would be manifested.
Paul is referring to the great plan of Salvation
My prayer, Your Prayer must be Specific and Purposeful
MacArthur, J. F., Jr. (1986). Ephesians (p. 100). Chicago: Moody Press.
My pray must be passionate enough that it pushes me to a posture...
It Pushed the Apostle to his knees
This Prayer drove the Apostle to his knees : Knees Sense of utterly being dependent upon God
his Prayer drove the Apostle to his knees : Knees Sense of utterly being dependent upon GodReverence GodMajesty Humble before GodSense of Compassion It is said that true love is when the other persons happiness is more important than yours Its an act of the will, a conscience decision to do what is best for the other person instead of myself. God didn't add another day on your life because you needed it, but rather because someone needed you.
Reverence God
Majesty Humble before God
Sense of Compassion
It is said that true love is when the other persons happiness is more important than yours
Its an act of the will, a conscience decision to do what is best for the other person instead of myself.
God didn't add another day on your life because you needed it, but rather because someone needed you.
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Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
This does not mean every single person who has ever lived throughout human history because He didn't say the family named in Hell
ESVYou are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
So this is The Universal Church all the Saints “Dead and Alive”
Family :people linked over a relatively long period of time by line of descent to a common progenitor, family, clan, relationship
a relatively large body of people existing as a totality at a given moment and linked through ancestry and sociopolitical interests, people, nation
a division of a total people entity existing at a given moment, family
We are the Family of God, The Church of the Lord Jesus
Praying for Your “Inner” Strength
Praying for Your “Inner” Strength
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
He prayers for Strength: to be made strong, tough, enduring it means to have energy or force, to act, endure to resist.
Power : Force energy ,might;
Now listen, beloved, you cannot experience inner strength and the Greek there is to be powered with power, to be dynamited with dynamite, to be strong with strength, to be mighty with might. That’s the idea. You’ll never know that on your own. You’ll never be able to stand firm and solid and unmovable. You’ll never know maturity until you allow the Spirit of God to do His renewing work. Until you allow God’s Spirit to strengthen you.
Now watch this, the outer man decays, the inner man accelerates and ascends. Keep that in mind. As a Christian, as you get older, your outer man declines, you can’t avoid it. It just happens.
The older you get the further it declines. And the older you get as a Christian and the more you grow as a Christian and are refreshed every day, actually, spiritual growth leaving the base say of your outer man does not go like this … spiritual growth does not ascend up like that, it goes like this.
Because the outer man diminishes, declines and decays while the inner man ascends. Which means the older you get in Christ, the older you get as you’re renewed by the Spirit the further away you come from the outer man. The less concerned you are about it. But you see, the Lord has a way of allowing us, when we’re saved at this point, to then begin to grow away from those things as they descend and we ascend.
So Paul says the outer man, I admit it, is perishing all the time. It’s declining. But in proportion to the decline of the outer man is the renewal of the inner man so that I ascend in the inner man to Christ, and to God. And the more I come to Christ and the closer I come to God and the more I’m strengthened in the inner man, the less I’m concerned about the declining of the outer man.
We need to be strengthened in our inner man, that is the deepest part of our being in our heart , in our soul, in our spirit.
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
Praying that you be a Dwelling Place
Praying that you be a Dwelling Place
Praying that you be a Dwelling Place
Praying that you be a Dwelling Place
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
To dwell — to inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of. = PERMANENT DWELLING, to enter in to settle down , to take up residence
A engine is the hidden power source of a car
Paul's second request is that Christ would Rule and Reign in our hearts.
Not for Jesus to come in, He’s already in, but to fell at ho,me, to take up residence, to live in a permanent condition.
There must always be in the front of my mind as being a Child of God that Christ lives in me
Where I’m I taking Jesus ?
What I’m I saying that Jesus can hear?
What I’m I pouring on Jesus?
I’m I fumigating Jesus ?
What I’m I making Jesus watch ?
The more conscious I’m the more I should want to strive...
Rooted: to be established ⇔ be rooted v. — to be established, conceived of as if a plant being or becoming fixed in the ground.
To be grounded: To be strengthened ⇔ be foundation-laid v. — to be or become strengthened, conceived of as a foundation that is laid.
Love — a strong, non-sexual affection and regard for a person and their good as understood by God’s moral character; especially characterized by a willing forfeiture of rights or privileges in another person’s behalf.
To be established, to have a foundation of Love
Praying for your Capacity
Praying for your Capacity
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
A Little girl came and asked her father for a nickel he said OK, he reached into his pocket for a nickel and He dint have one.
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Capacity : the potential or suitability for holding, storing, or accommodating
Capacity
Capacity
1 the maximum amount that something can contain or produce.
▶ [as modifier] fully occupying the available space: a capacity crowd.
2 the ability or power to do something.
The Great Blessings of God
The Knowledge and Power of God
The Mercy and Grace of God
Peace brought by Christ
God has done more for us than we can measure.
We must understand all that God has done for us.
Praying for Your Power
Praying for Your Power
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
There was an old lady that lived out in the boon docks she didn't have electricity but she wanted it, She called the power company out for them to come and hook her up some electricity...
Exceeding: to surpass, to go beyond any request to overcome and do anything
Abundantly: to overflow and do more than enough.
Above: to go over and beyond any need.
All that we can think:
Power of The Spirit Strengthening us
Power of Christ dwelling in us.
The Power of Love Working in us
The power of understanding what God is up to
The Power of the fullness of God