Happy Friday! Hope you have monstrous weekend plans. Me, I'm having one last rummage with a friend. Last opportunity of the summer to make some money. Selling junk is always a good thing! (Buying someone else's junk is pretty fun, too.)
My Thursday night Bible study met last night - I call them the Ya Yas. Thursday nights always involve food, another good thing! And speaking of good things, we're studying Ephesians, and last night we talked about our lives being reflective praise on God. How we treat people, interact with them, handle ourselves in difficult times - those are all ways we give praise to Him.
Paul tells the Ephesian church, that because of the way they have served God, been His church, been a praise to His glory - because of all these things, he never stops giving thanks for them. And then he tells them how he is going to pray for them: for a spirit of wisdom, for eyes of understanding, for knowledge of hope.
Do you pray for others? God created us to be a community of believers, not just singular souls barricaded against one another. He's a relational God, and just as He created us with a need for Him, He also created us with a need for each other.
This prayer is a good one to pray for family and friends: "I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe." Ephesians 1:17-19
This weekend, instead of just praying for your needs, pray for the needs of those around you. And beyond their physical, immediate needs, pray for these things: Wisdom. Revelation. Enlightenment. Hope. Power.
It's an awful good thing!
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