God Is Able ...more Than Able

GOD IS ABLE...MORE THAN ABLE

Ephesians 3:14-20

Good morning everyone, glad that you have joined us in person or online,

If you would turn in your bibles to Ephesians 3:14-21, we will be there in just a minute.

Signs play a big part in our lives for direction, for instruction, and for information. But if you don’t read the sign, it is of no value to you. It may have value, but not for you because you did not take the time to read it. You can blame someone else for not getting that information… it was available but you choose to either not read it, read it later, or in most cases for signs on the road, you were distracted by something else and the sign got past you before you read it.

Illustration-

Back in the day, there was a song that stated- “long hair freaky people need not apply, so I stuck my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why. He said you look like a fine upstanding young man and I think you’ll do, so I took off my hat and said imagine that that… me working for you…signs signs everywhere the sign.

You have to be old to remember that. But today there is a mem that said that this world is so messed up that “long haired freaky people can now apply…

We live in a different world and we live in different times…but we struggle all the same with life circumstances

Read Ephesians 3:14-20

We open this passage of Scripture the way we should find all Christians, We see Paul on his knees asking for God’s help.

To understand what is going on here...to find out why the Apostle Paul is on his knees, we need to go back to the beginning of the chapter. He is found stating that God has shown him the mysteries of the Gospel.

He is telling the readers that the mysteries of Christ was now being opened up to the Gentiles (Barbarians- anyone who was not Jewish) and that he was the chosen person that God would use to do that.

Chapter 3:8- Although I am less than the least of all God’s people, this grace was given me; to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ.

Did you know that without the grace and anointing of the Holy Spirit...you cannot know the unsearchable riches of God?

That why the lord tells us in his word that “By grace you have been saved, through faith-and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-not by works so that no one can boast.

(Eph.2:9)

In the third chapter of Ephesians, Paul is stating a fact that the mysteries of God have been revealed to the Gentiles.

It is through the church that God has chosen to do this.

It is through the Apostle Paul that the message of power through the Holy Spirit is relayed to the Ephesians and to the church universal.

You know that I have a heart for Evangelism, we see here an evangelism explosion...to include any Gentile with Jewish practice, had to be the hand of God on it.

We see Paul’s heart open up to God’s people and begin to share what God has shown him.

He is earnestly praying to God the Father for them. He has a humble and reverent position on his knee’s before God.

He is letting them know that “to know” God in the fullest extent, is to know him intimately.

What the apostle asks of God for these his friends, is a spiritual blessing.

This being the best blessings, and the most earnestly to be sought and prayed for by every one of us, both for us and for our friends.

He asks for spiritual strength for the work and duty to which they were called.

He asks God for specific things:

Prays that they would be strengthened by the Holy Spirit–verse 16

That they would be rooted and grounded in his love...verse 18

That the believer would be filled...to the fullness of God...verse 19

Our God is so big... So strong and so mighty!

If we would take God out of the box...we would see a breakthrough like never before.

He wants us to be empowered by the Holy Spirit of God!

No longer to do things in our own strength...but supernaturally be able to do things in the power of The Lord working in our lives.

Can you really understand how much the Lord loves you and me! Do you have any idea the depths that the Lord will go to be a part of our lives?

That God would want to be a part of our lives is amazing enough...

To love so much that He wants to fill us with His Spirit...To have a never ending supply of the Lord in our lives and to turn to him for a continuous filling, saturating our lives with His presence.