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Running on Empty?
If you are running on empty with your car, that means that the gas light is on, and you are just hoping that you don’t run out.
What’s the danger there?
That you are stranded on the side of the road.
There are times when it feels like you are spiritually running on empty.
Instead of a gas light coming on the dashboard, its a feeling of being tired, or apathetic, or just dry.
Evaluate yourself?
How are you doing?
This
Empty.
Half a Tank.
Full
Empty?
tired, where is God?, not really learning or growing, knowing there is way more
2. Half a tank?
doing Ok, could be better, could be worse.
3. Full?
Its amazing, your life is changed every time that you read your Bible, you have this overwhelming sense of God’s nearness and goodness in your life.
OK, you’ve evaluated, that’s helpful.
That gives you a place to work from.
But where do you want to go.
OK, you’ve evaluated, that’s helpful.
That gives you a place to work from.
But where do you want to go.
If you said that you were full, think of this lesson as preventative maintenance.
Or you might even learn through our study that even though you are full, there is more.
If you said that you were at half a tank, listen to learn what might fill in the holes.
What would it look like for you to live your life with a full tank, completely powered up?
If you say that you are on empty, then I want you to know that you don’t have to stay that way.
God wants to fill you up with his love, and we are going to see what that looks like now.
The central message of this letter is the re-creation of the human family according to God’s original intention for it.
We were created to be in good and healthy relationships.
We can have a full relationship with God and we can have full relationships with people.
The Church should be the best example of good relationships.
And this prayer that we are about to read in the letter to the church in Ephesus is one that prays for that reality.
When it says “You”.
It means you, the people in the church, and also you, the individuals hearing and reading this letter.
THE GOAL - Be Filled with the Fullness of God!
That is where this prayer ends up.
That is what I hope we all want.
But Paul prays some other really important things that lead up to that goal, and even make it possible.
If you need to fill your car up, you first have to turn on the ignition, then put it into gear, then drive to the gas station, and then pay, and then pump the gas.
Strength
Knowledge
We will see that this spiritual refuelling also has many steps.
Every family in heaven and on earth is named by God the Father.
By named, it means, ownership.
God is the creator of all, he is over all, he is over every family, weather they acknowledge him or not.
This means that God can surely hear and answer the prayer that is about to be prayed
Ephesians 3:
Paul is praying for a supernatural kind of strength for your inner man.
What is the “inner man?”
The inner man is not merely our mental self.
It is not merely our intellect, emotions, and will.
Rather, it is the spiritual self which was reborn when we received Christ (John 3:16; Eph.
4:24).
Paul distinguishes clearly between the inner man and the flesh in Romans 7.
This inner man “wants to do good,” “delights with God’s Law,” “is a slave to God’s law” (vv.
21, 22, 25).
Paul prays that in this inner man “he may strengthen you with power through His Spirit.”
In 2 Corinthians 4:16, Paul writes that “outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.”
A part of a Christian is getting old, decaying, deteriorating.
A part is also getting fresher and more vital, increasing, and becoming richer, deeper, and stronger.
That is the inner man.
This inner man is the true us; this is who we are.
That true “us” is recreated in the likeness of God, in holiness and true righteousness.
It wishes to do good; it joyfully concurs with the law of God; it experiences no condemnation; it is not destroyed by bad circumstances; it is renewed by feeding on eternal truth.
That is who you are.
That is where God strengthens you through his spirit with power.
Are you on empty?
God can strengthen your spiritual self.
He can give you strength in the place where you can’t even help yourself.
We should all crave having a really strong spiritual self.
Paul prayed for the church that through the Holy Spirit, each child of God’s spiritual self would be made stronger and stronger.
This is something God can and will do for you.
Are you on empty?
God can strengthen your spiritual self.
He can give you strength in the place where you can’t even help yourself.
When you are feeling empty and low, you don’t even know what to do, and you don’t know that anything that you try will work.
That’s why we are going to pray for you.
Because God can strengthen you.
Ephesians 3:17
That the Messiah may dwell in your hearts.
This verse is not about becoming a Christian.
Its about you living your life in a way that your attitude and your actions are welcoming God to be a part of how you live.
Jesus sends a message in the book of Revelations to 7 different churches.
To the church in a city called Laodicea Jesus includes this promise.
Here are some ideas of what it could look like for you to open that door.
Spend time reading your Bible.
You might want to read through the book of Ephesians this week.
Ask a Christian friend to pray with you, and to help you think through some spiritual things in your life.
Open the door to Christ.
What other ideas do you have?
Rooted & Established in Love
Rooted & Established in Love
Paul’s prayer is that the church, and that means the people who make up the church, become rooted and established in love.
If you are rooted in love, like a plant, that means that the part of you that is under the surface is finding its strength and its power from the love of God.
If you are rooted in love, like a plant, that means that the part of you that is under the surface is finding its strength and its power from the love of God.
There is a quiet part to who you are that others don’t necessarily get to see on a regular basis.
But that time that is spend with Christ roots you in his love, and there is a strength that comes from God’s love that is unlike any other strength you can know in your life.
Strength, Love…
You want to be a friend to someone, the foundation for that is established in the love of God in your life.
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