More then We could ASK or imagine
Ephesians 3:20. I have heard this verse, known this verse… but do we really sit in and BELIEVE and live out of this verse. If we did, we would all be living ALIVE ALIVE ALIVE! In case you are wondering what this verse says.. it says
Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think or imagine, according to HIS power at work
within us, to HIM be all the glory
in the CHURCH (add your name. in Jenn..)
and IN Christ Jesus
throughout all generations
Forever
and
ever
AMEN!
He can do more then we ask or think or imagine. I don’t know about you but I have a pretty big imagination at time. I remember my sis and I had great imaginations as kids– we imagined and played all the time. HA.. I remember some strange things we used to imagine we were. We were obsessed with reading, and I read a story about Clara Barton the civil war nurse. Dont really remember much about what she did but we used to imagine we were her.. risking our lives on our battlefield to nurse wounded sodiers back to health. Haha.. our battlefield really was our very girly purple bedroom with flowerdy bedspreads.. but hey, we had good imaginations.
ANYWAY.. I imagine things at times.. but the thought that God does more then I could ever even think of asking or imagining– that should make me live each day alive knowing I am living a day that God is going to do more then I could have imagined with my day!
Recently I have gone through a season of deep ministry hurt and brokeness. I could not imagine how God would redeem that, piece back together my broken heart. Well this past weekend, my precious Bible study ladies that God has given me gave me a writers getaway that was more then I could have asked or imagined for. Can I just say those Bible study ladies were something God did that was greater then I could have imagined.. I came back from Nepal because God told me to.. not necessarily because it was what I dreamed about. God said so I did. And as a result God HAS DONE more then I could have imagined. and these precious Thursday night Bible study ladies are one of those things .. we have grown from 3 to about 18 if everyone comes.. and WHEW God moves. I love it. Well they surpised me with a weekend getaway this weekend.. it involved:
—starting with a one hour massage.. and before that buffolo fingers from my favorite mexican restaraunt in Athens– (side note the teriyaki sauce spilled out of my to-go box all over my legs in between my toes… that lady who gave me a massage said you smell like an asian restaraunt.. haha!)
— a beautiful farm.. completete with POND, POOL, PIGS (3 p’s), a really sweet note by the people who let me stay there which told me God had brouht me there to come to him with my weary heart and heavy laden and He would give me rest!
— a miniture mule that is cute but you don’t feed it by hand because it will bite
— a dog named princess
— a pool.. did i mention that
— a golf cart to drive around
— and all my favorite snacks and coffee..
oh yeah– and the precious Bible study ladies sent my mom on a mission to buy all kinds of writing materials for my writing weekend.. cd’s, candles, 3 different fun journals, pens, anything I would need , an awesome coffee cup.. i felt so known and loved (great job mommy!)
And God showed up. He took all my imaginations and did more then I could have asked or imagined. He romanced me. And He wrote my book proposal for me. IT was awesome. He met with me up on that farm. He spoke the broken parts of my heart. He healed me. He ministered to me. He loved on me…
so Here is my point. We make our imaginations so small and therefore look for God’s ways of working as small to. We serve a GOD with a HUGE imagination.. and a HUGE GOD.. so what are you imagining?
Is it far more abundantly then you could think
or ask
or imagine
according to the power
at work within
you?