OVER AND ABOVE ALL THAT WE DARE ASK OR THINK

Last week I was down with flu, cough and fever. It was one of those days you feel awful – can’t sleep, cough like mad, and all your bones are aching like an eighty year old suffering from rheumatism. The downside of it all is that I don’t have better half to care for me, cook broth for me, and pray for me. But not all is lost – I have a wonderful younger son to serve me with water and medicine, eldest son to nag me to see a doctor, and a daughter to take me to see one. Well, I did get better and now up on my feet again.

The scripture for me this week was from Ephesians 3:20 (AMP Bible) - Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do super-abundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]—

This bible verse is one of the most positive verse that I have come across in the entire Word of God. It is full of hope, full of possibility, and full of God in it. Sometimes it scares me to think that God would be able to do all that for me – the poor, wretched, sinful me – yet, somehow I want to believe it, to live in it, and to see it happening in front of me. Don’t you want to? Look, the verse said that God is always working within us in consequence of the action of his power. He is so powerful that when he works to accomplish something it will always be done – no question about it. He is so powerful that he is able to carry out his purposes for your life and mine without interruption, without delay, and without mistakes – and he can do it super-abundantly, far over and above all that we even dare to ask and think infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes and dreams. This sound almost crazy but yet it’s what he said and what he promise! God has our best interest in his heart – he knows our every desire, he knows our very thoughts, and he held in high honor our hopes and dreams. Imagine that! Ponder on it! Hold it within your breath and embrace it tightly to your heart what the Lord has said about each one of us!

What is my dream? What is it that I am thinking about? What is my desires and hopes? Wow……