A Prayer for the Ephesians

Youth Group on Friday, June 1, 2007:


Games and Activities- With many youth around, we were able to play a couple of fun games. First was shuffle your butt, where someone is it in the middle, and they have to try and take a seat in the circle. The players sitting down avoid the person in the middle from sitting by "shuffling their butt." Next, we got to play another pretty hysterical round of "I've never..." Then we got on with the devotional.

Do you believe in miracles? Is there something that you either witnessed or heard an account of that cannot be explained in human terms? This was the topic of our discussion last Friday. I told a story of how Amber, a friend of mine, went on a mission trip to India. There she met a man who was unable to walk most, if not all, of his life. Amber commanded the man to walk in the name of Jesus- and HE GOT UP AND WALKED!

Paul's prayer to the Ephesians in chapter 3, verses 14-21 include this idea. He prays that the power of the Spirit would strengthen them, that they would know how high, long, wide, and deep the love of Christ is. At the end of this prayer, Paul says that Christ is able to do more than we can possibly know or imagine, and He is at work within us.

A couple other places in the gospels relay this sort of power we have in Christ. A parable Jesus says states that if we have the faith the size of a mustard seed we will be able to move a mountain. In the Gospel of John, Jesus says with faith, we will do greater works than He.

To sum this all up- if we are inside of God's will, put our faith in Him, and give Him the glory, we can to mighty works for the Lord. This is my prayer for all of us.