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October 4
Friday


IMMEASURABLY
MORE

READ:
Ephesians 3:14-21
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He who is in you
is greater than he
who is in the world.
__1 John 4:4
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It's not going to happen, Aunt Julie. You might as well erase that thought from your mind."

"I know it's unlikely," I said. "But it's not impossible."

For several years, my niece and i have had variations of that conversation regarding a situation in our family. the rest of the sentence, which I said only occasionally, was this: "I know it can happen because I hear stories all the time about how God makes impossible things happen." The part of the sentence I said only to myself was this: "But they happen only in other people's families."

Recently my pastor has been preaching from the book of Ephesians. At the end of every service we say this benediction: "Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen" (Eph. 3:20-21 NIV).

This was the year God chose to do "immeasurably more" in my family. He replaced indifference with love. How did He do it? Beats me. But I saw it happen. And why should I be surprised? If Satan can turn love into indifference, certainly God can change indifference back into love. __Julie Ackerman Link

````````````Lord, thank You for doing immeasurably more in our````````````````
`````````````````````lives than we could ever imagine.``````````````````````
``````````````````I am so thankful that You are able and often````````````````
``````````````````do make impossible situations possible.````````````````````
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God's power to restore is stronger
than Satan's power to destroy

****************Today's Bible Reading __ Ephesians 3:14-21***********************

14 For this reason I bow
my knees to the Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ,

15 from whom the whole
family in heaven and earth
is named, 16 that He would
grant you, according to the
riches of His glory, to be
strengthened with might
through His Spirit in the
inner man, 17 that Christ
may dwell in your hearts
through faith; that you,
being rooted and grounded
in love, 18 may be able to
comprehend with all the
saints what is the width
and length and depth and
height__ 19 to know the
love of Christ which passes
knowledge; that you may
be filled with all the
fullness of God.

20 Now to Him who is
able to do exceedingly
abundantly above all that
we ask or think, according
to the power that works in
us, 21 to Him be glory in the
church by Christ Jesus to
all generations, forever and
ever. Amen.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Ephesians 3:20-21 is an example of a biblical doxology. The word
doxology comes from the two Greek words__doxa (glory) and logos
(word). Thus a doxology is a statement (or hymn) of praise to the
glory of God. We can clearly see the elements of praise in today's
text as God is exalted for His matchless ability and power (v.20).
These two manifestations of God's omnipotence are enough by
themselves to provoke praise and worship from God's church
forever. Other examples of New Testament doxologies include
Romans 11:36 and 16:27, Galatians 1:5, and Jude 1:25.