A Prayer

This prayer was originally written by the Apostle Paul for the church in Ephesus.  I do not think, however, that he would object if we include all believers in it.

For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 
that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 
may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height-- 
to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 
to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. (Ephesians 3:14-21 NKJV)*

*  https://www.biblestudytools.com/nkjv/ephesians/3.html

Hope in the New Year

Soon 2019 will be over.  Here is a thought to start the new year:

… If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 

… Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  (Romans 8:31-35, 37-39 NKJV)*

May God bless and keep you in the coming year.

*  https://www.biblestudytools.com/nkjv/romans/8.html