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good and evil in exactly
the
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same
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way. In other words, he stands behind good and evi...
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Sometimes it is more important to worship such a God than to understand him.
God is not only sovereign; he is also personal, and because he is personal
he is free.
God expects to be pleaded with;
The really wonderful truth is that human beings like Moses and you and me can participate in bringing about God’s purposes through God’s own appointed means.
might
know God better.
Thus for Paul to pray to the Father of glory is to confess his awareness of God’s proper domain, to articulate his gratitude for God’s gracious
disclosure, and to
hold up the Father’s domain as th...
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ultimate...
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Spirit of wisdom
and revelation
to the end that we might know...
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we must have our spiritual faculties attuned to receive what God reveals by his
Spirit.
the goal of their salvation.
We need to know who we are, as God sees
us.
Paul cannot be satisfied with a brand of Christianity that is orthodox but dead, rich in the theory of justification but powerless when it comes to transforming people’s lives. We shall see that
Paul’s primary concern is to pray for a display of God’s mighty power in the domain of our being that controls our character and
prepares us
for h...
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This is not a prayer that we might love Christ more (though that is a good thing to pray for); rather, it is a prayer that we might better grasp his love for us.
We want to experience power so that we
can be in control;
Paul wants this prayer to be offered
earnestness, urgency, and persistence.
Paul understands that this business of praying, of struggling in prayer, is no more than the entailment of the fact that we are engaged in supernatural conflict.
But at the beginning of the church’s life, it was
not so.
There is a profound sense in which the sovereign, holy, loving, wise Father whom we address in Jesus’s name is more interested in us than in our prayers.
Part of this business of prayer is getting to know God better;
