This is my prayer for you

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Renewed hope”

Our Bible verse for today: “I pray for you constantly, asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and insight so that you might grow in your knowledge of God.” Ephesians 1:16-17 (NLT)

Our thought for today: “This is my prayer for you”

Today we will conclude our devotional thinking about discovering renewed hope when we are down and struggling. We have covered a lot of ground over these two months and I pray that you have found it helpful and encouraging. Tomorrow we will shift gears and begin a new theme for the month of June.

To conclude our time with this theme, I want to remind us that the starting place for gaining a sense of renewed hope is prayer. As we have learned throughout this study, God does use people and circumstances to encourage us and to give us hope, but prayer is fundamental and it is where we must begin. However, many times we don’t even know what to pray for or how to pray. In such cases one of the best methods of prayer is to simply pray the prayers recorded in the Bible right back to God. There are many prayers in the Bible regarding gaining a sense of renewed hope, especially in the Psalms. Make those prayers your prayers and simply pray them back to God.

In Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, we find two of the greatest prayers any leader ever prayed for the people he cared about, and I want to share them both with you this morning. Taken together, this is my prayer for you as we close out our time thinking about finding renewed hope:

“I pray for you constantly, asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and insight so that you might grow in your knowledge of God. I pray that your hearts will be flooded with the light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called – his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance. I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. This is the same power that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms.” Ephesians 1:16-20

“I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fulness of life and power that comes from God.” Ephesians 3:16-20.

Thank you for reading these daily devotional messages. You are an encouragement to me.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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