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Your incomparably great power November 3, 2008

Posted by highofseventyfive in profound thoughts, theology.
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“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. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at the right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.”  Ephesians 1:18-21

What would it be like to see your incomparably great power on campus God?

It would look like people, (the most unlikely people) coming to know You and giving their life to You. It would look like You sending us out into the darkness of our campus and LOVING with Your strength. It would look like spending time with our classmates and hearing their dirt, and pointing them to the Healer.

To see Your incomparably great power on campus God, would be to see the life flow through our veins and explodes out of our skin with love for You. Your power allows us to love You, to feel feelings of devotion to You.

Seeing Your power on campus would mean seeing counter cultural activity: prayer outside, in the stud, in eickhoff, in the library—prayer for healing and restoration. It would look like going to bed early so we can study and achieve with excellence. It would look like whole floors of students rising for church on a Sunday. It would look like giving to people all around us, giving freely and without care, and seeing you provide for us God, with Your incomparably great power. It would look like being used for you in ways we couldn’t imagine, in things we would have never thought. It would look like You being LORD over our lives- changing our desires and taking temptations out of our paths, Your power allowing us to follow despite the most trying circumstances. It would look glorious, excellent, diligent, something so amazing, beautiful, NOT NORMAL. It would look like supernatural power-doing and accomplishing things that we could never imagine happening by human flesh or effort. And Your incomparably great power would teach us to look for the unrealistic, the unnatural, the unfathomable, and Your power would give us hope to trust You. Open the eyes of our hearts Jesus.

God, would Your incomparably great power give us quiet time, that Your power would remove distraction when we ask, that we could get so close to You. Jesus we love you. Your power can make students lives transformed, your power can make our campus renewed, your power can raise us up to change the world, for Your glory.