Footsteps #19

One of my favourite Paul passages: Eph3:14-21NLT “ When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong.  And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.  May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen.”

God’s glorious, unlimited resources – empowered by the Holy Spirit! Are we surprised at the riches of the grace of God who confers upon us one unspeakable gift after another? He has given us His Son as our Substitute, comforter, and representative. He will stop short of nothing. All of us who accept Christ have the Son of God as our righteousness in heaven, and the Spirit as the continual presence of God beside us on earth, sufficient for every situation we find ourselves in. For evangelizing the world.

Since Pentecost, the Spirit has been as truly present on earth in every believer as Christ was physically present in the days of His earthly ministry. When the church awakens to this glorious truth, then the conquest of the world for Christ will be speedily accomplished. 
Blessed is that church or individual which learns from the book of Acts the only effectual message and method. The church is the theatre of His grace, in which He delights to reveal His power to transform hearts.