Transformative Prayer: Glorifying Christ Through Our Lives

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"To this end we pray we always pray for you and here's what we pray, that our God may make you Worthy, fit suitable, living in such a way as to show the worth of your calling into the kingdom of God. There's a way to live that brings disrepute upon the calling or exalts the calling. He's praying that we would live in such a way as to magnify our calling out of Darkness into light into the kingdom into Holiness make you worthy of his calling." [00:31:40]

"May he fulfill every resolve for good in other words, may he so work in you, this is God working so work in you, that you don't just have good intentions but you actually bring them into visible relational practical life expression and another name for that is work of Faith. So may God fulfill every good resolve and may He fulfill every work of Faith." [00:88:47]

"The goal of this prayer for the Fulfillment of good resolves and for Faith tapping into this power and producing these works, in other words the worthiness of life that emerges from God answering that prayer the goal is so that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you." [00:180:90]

"The name name in the Bible is the verbal representation of the person right it's the person made public he said earlier back in verse 10 that he's coming to be glorified he didn't say that he was coming for his name to be glorified he's coming for himself to be glorified and now he says the aim is that his name would be glorified." [00:210:48]

"These works of Faith which are to result in this glorification are by his power and they Accord with the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ now here's the principle The Giver gets the glory, that's the point here that's the logic here this becoming worthy this fulfilling resolves this work is owing to Faith tapping into Christ's power and Christ's Grace and therefore Christ gets the glory." [00:328:97]

"Whoever serves, let him do it as one who serves by the strength that God supplies, why so that in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ to him belong Glory Dominion forever and ever in other words, Serve by the strength of another so that the other gets the glory, that's the principle The Giver of the strength gets the glory of the service." [00:386:63]

"This connection in right here means that Christ is glorified in connection with us as The Giver or the source of the power and the grace that brought about this transformation that turned our resolves into works of faith and makes him shine through the transformation that results a practical prayer answered transformation into works of Faith which are labors of Love brings him glory because the faith that brought the work is Faith in his power and his grace." [00:428:94]

"Now what about and you so the gold is twofold so that the name of the Lord Jesus be glorified in you and you glorified in him, you glorified in him, now this in him same connection is here we are he is in US glorified in us and we are in him the connection is the same only here the connection is that we are the receiver right of the power we are the receiver of the grace in this connection he's The Giver of the power and The Giver of the grace and therefore he gets the glory he gets glorified in this relationship we're the receiver of the power receiver of the grace and thus we are being glorified in this worthiness." [00:477:18]

"We are being changed by this power, Changed by this grace, to be like this Glory so the very transformation here that brings glory to Jesus is the glorification of ourselves in measure now and then fully later you can see that here in second Corinthians 3 18 we all with unveiled face beholding the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to the next so we are now being glorified." [00:535:86]

"This action of being made worthy now of the calling is being described in second Peter 3 18. it's happening from one degree of glory to the next it is going to reach its climax in Union with Christ at the second coming when all our sinfulness is wiped away and we are glorified here's the way Peter talks about it the tested genuineness of your faith more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire will be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ." [00:576:78]

"When Jesus comes back our faith that produced those works the works of faith is going to redound or be found to result in our Glory our praise our honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ here's the way Paul describes it in Romans 8 if we're children, then heirs Heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ provided we suffer with him in order that we may be glorified with him we're going to share his glory." [00:617:10]

"Two goals for this being made worthy in answer to Paul's prayer that this power and this Grace would transform us goal number one, that the Lord Jesus would be made to look magnificent in our lives now and at the end and he will be made to look magnificent in our lives because the power comes from him and the grace comes from him and The Giver gets the glory and secondly we are going to be glorified made to shine like the sun in connection with him this in is in connection with him as the source and this end is in connection with him as the receiver that is we are the receiver of this Grace the receiver of this power and therefore we will be made worthy now in measure and in the end complete and sinless in glory with Christ." [00:687:98]

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