PRAYING FOR NEW BELIEVERS (PART 4)

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In Christ, Mark

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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people...to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Ephesians 3:17b, 19

This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

Prayers are important for all believers but especially those who are new to the faith. Look at any of Paul’s letters to the churches he helped establish and you will find him praying for the fledgling churches and their membership.

Over the past three messages, we have looked at some specific things we can pray for to lift up new Christians to the Lord and we, like Paul, should make it a point to let those believers know they are being prayed for.

Yesterday, we found the Apostle hoping that the new Christ followers in Ephesus would grasp the infinite nature of Jesus’ love for them, a love that described as being “wide and long and high and deep”.

In other words, boundless and boundary less.

The world offers nothing like this to us. Not even close.

Worldly love is too often temporary and disposable. Most of the time, it places stipulations on when love should happen and even can label someone unlovable. At its worst, the world would even allow someone to feel unloved.

Not a great place to be and yet so many people are there.

This is why a person needs to come to Jesus for in Him, they will always be loved perfectly. It’s a love the world can’t rival, a love that “surpasses knowledge” because no one knows a love like this unless they know Christ.

When we do see this, that through Jesus we are loved in a special, unconditional way that is not just for today but forever, then we will find ourselves filled to measure, experiencing the very fullness of God through His Son.

We will experience full hope.

We will experience full peace.

And we will experience full love.

This is what we should pray for when we think of our brothers and sisters in Christ, new or otherwise.

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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