Prayer for Spirit Strength, Love, and Fullness

Nothing reveals more about what you believe believe about God than your prayers. How high are your prayers? Do your prayers stay way down here in that organ recital or the grocery list? God, here's the list of things I wanna give you today. Hey, big guy. I need you to show up, take care of this for me now. Come on. See, God's not the big guy and God's not a genie in a bottle. He is the almighty one. He is the one who is able to do all all these abundantly more than all we ask or think according to the power at work within us. [01:04:42] (41 seconds)  #PrayBig

And imagine if somebody came up to you and said, I'd like you to write a play on par with Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet. You might say, well, I'm not Shakespeare. Well, you you simply couldn't do it. And likewise, if somebody came up to you and said, here's the gospels. I want you to read these four books and then I want you to live just like Jesus did. You couldn't do that. I know. I've tried and I failed. There is no way that we can live like Jesus. [00:51:02] (31 seconds)  #JesusIsUnique

See, so many people will say to me, well, I could never live the Christian life. I just I just couldn't do it. And you know what? They're absolutely right. On their own, they cannot. And if you wanna get technical about it, nobody lives a Christian life. Only Jesus did that. We express the life that the spirit lives through us. So stop and think. How many times do you begin your day by asking God to fill you with your with his holy spirit and to give you spiritual strength? [00:52:21] (28 seconds)  #FilledBySpirit

See, we are praying to a God that has no limits. We're praying to a God that can do anything. And the question is, do you believe God can do anything and everything? Because a true test of what you believe about God is not in what you say, it's in how you pray. And a question that we should ask ourselves is this, if other people listen to your prayers, would they believe that you really believe in a God that can do anything? [01:08:42] (27 seconds)  #PrayLikeYouBelieve

See, when you are controlled by the spirit of God, you are consumed by the love of God. Paul says, being rooted and grounded in love. He uses agricultural term and he uses an architectural term in order to illustrate the love of how the love of God shall consume us. He says, we are to be rooted and grounded. A root is what gives a tree strength. Our lives are to send roots down deep into the soil of God's love. [00:56:03] (32 seconds)  #RootedInLove

So the the prayer that that God gave to Paul and and was so life changing that it drove Paul to his knees. And so he begins his prayer in a way in which we rarely begin ours. Usually, we begin by asking God to do something for us, to heal bless us, to provide something or take care of us. But Paul doesn't do that at all. He he doesn't ask God to do something for him, he asked God to do something in him. [00:49:00] (28 seconds)  #TransformationPrayer

And and you can either be full of yourself yourself or or you you can can be be full full of of God. You cannot be half full of yourself and half full of God because God doesn't share space with anyone. And so every morning, need to get up and we need to say, Lord, fill me with yourself. John the Baptist says, I must decrease that he should increase. That humility should be the hallmark of all of our lives. [01:01:54] (26 seconds)  #DecreaseIncrease

But what we do know is that God loves us so much that he gave us his son to die for our sins to pay a penalty that we had in crude that we couldn't pay. And he offers us grace. He takes exchange on the cross of Calvary where he takes our sins, he places it on his son, and he offers us forgiveness and redemption and grace and mercy. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. That's just a glimpse into the love of God. [01:00:27] (33 seconds)  #GodsAmazingGrace