POWER DYNAMICS

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Scripture Reading: Ephesians 3:14-21

I pray that … he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being …
Ephesians 3:16

The word power can be understood in several ways. It most commonly refers to strength or physical force.

Note that Paul in this text clearly means spiritual power because he asks God to “strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being.” Paul’s prayer is for internal strength that builds spiritual power. This power not only expresses itself in personal devotion to God but also in commitment and conviction that flows from the heart.

The source of this power is the Holy Spirit, and it is received through faith. In fact, the power of the Holy Spirit is what enables people to receive Christ into their lives, recognizing that he is Lord over all things, including their own heart, soul, mind, and strength. It’s not simply a matter of the human will or the decision of a reflective mind. Christian spirituality is the work of Christ and his Holy Spirit.

It is more accurate to say that Christ dwells in our hearts because we received him by the power of the Holy Spirit than it is to say that we accepted Christ and invited him to live within us (even though we also do that). This is not a mere theological distinction. We must give honor where it is due. And we must be honest, acknowledging that we depend first on Jesus and the indwelling Holy Spirit for faith (see Acts 3:16).

Prayer

Father in heaven, teach us to rely on your Spirit for faith, confidence, and power. Help us to know you as the source of everything good in our hearts. Amen.

Peter Borgdorff

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Stjepan 11:51 PM August 12th, 2009

FRIENDS respected, respected Brothers and sisters in Christ!
Allow me to greet you first, and ask you about your health, family and love. If they are good, then profits, business, luck, security life and anything might be very good.
Respected friends, I’m a Roman Catholic, but this issue as to young people’s sexual life I see in my own way. Namely, I in my youth got acquainted both the paradise and the hell. I fell off a motor-bike Honda 750cm3, and my heart stopped beeting ... Yes, friends, I was both in the paradise and above the hell. I could tell you I was awake and very evil before this accident. I also did as the others of whom is spoken here, abortions or so ... God the Lord gave all the people and only reason for this we’re different from animals. Though sometimes I consider that the animals do not do that much evils as a man can do to the other man, his community and society. Sometimes I’m ashamed of the acts of some priests in my Church, they often speak one thing, but do quite diferent, as if our God does not exist, but I was born as a Roman Catholic, and I’ll die as such. I do not want to judge to anybody, for God is the single Judge. But I warn the young people, if they have done some sexual sin as debauchery, not to the sin of killing (abortion) of his / HERS child, for it is a crime itself, which shall follow them on this planet for their whole life . But not any second I woudn’t like to feel some pain, which I felt as I did in my youth when I was right above the hell. Dear friends, some day when you die you’ll conceive my message, which you have read here on this site.
Allow me to greet you first, and ask you for your health, family and luck. If they are good, then love, success, profit, business or anything might be very good.
Respected friends, I read the the day at a theme GoogleAlerty, which frustrated me that much. It was about the issue of religion and state separation. Namely, I consider that every American citizen as we as from the world, has his / fair right to confess their faith as they want. And all citizens of different religions: Christians, Moslems, Hinduists, Jews, Budists make the same state. Whatshould be now: to separate these citizens of their state?
Religion does not consist only of the Church with its objects and the priests, but it consists of religious people, who make that church, and they are the most important, as well as the rivers bring its food into the sea and feed the sea fish and mammels, and the sea / ocean gives its salt, without there is no life without it. Respected friends, I have friends of different confessions, and we sometimes meet and talk on simple issues, and in 90% of issues we agree.
My attitude and my opinions that young people must take care of themselves when they are in intimate intercourse, and the best is to constraint themselves from such acts, for acts that bring us different illnesses cancer, AIDS, SYPYLIS ..., and they bring us something worse, banishment of our family and society. They bring us to our sins Father Lord, for if we have done the easier debaucher, why to commit a murder of our unborn child, which with only three days life has its human form as soul, which was given to that being by Lord Lord . Those ones who were at war and killed to survive very good know what proplem with their soul meets, but God enabled me to know how every potential mother feels who kills her unborn child. I here do not want to impose you my faith and my attitude, but I beg you to think well before decision to commit such an act for at sickneess treatment just cause should be cured but no consequence. That’s why I can tell you that prervatives could not prevent anything as well as no illness, because it’s a common lie that preservatives could prevent anything, for any virus can pass through the rubber structure, for they are tinier are that you could imagine.
Thank you.God bless you

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brother William Rutland 7:02 AM August 13th, 2009

God is our strength and our salvation whom shall we fear.
Seek God early even before you get out of bed.  Give God all the Praise and Glory.  Thank him for His Grace, His Mercy, His Love and Compassion.  God is our all in all and is worthy to be praised.  Lift up your voices and praise him for being in our body, our heart, our mind, and our spirit.  Acknowledge him in all that you do and HE WILL DIRECT YOUR PATH.
Confess your sins and acknowledge that you did what God saw you do. You’ll feel so much better.
Amen.

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