Boldness and Confidence through Faith

Acts of Worship
Learning to Pray

Jesus Intercedes for Us

Ephesians 3:7-13  The Message

^7-8 This is my life work: helping people understand and respond to this Message. It came as a sheer gift to me, a real surprise, God handling all the details. When it came to presenting the Message to people who had no background in God’s way, I was the least qualified of any of the available Christians. God saw to it that I was equipped, but you can be sure that it had nothing to do with my natural abilities.
^8-10 And so here I am, preaching and writing about things that are way over my head, the inexhaustible riches and generosity of Christ. My task is to bring out in the open and make plain what God, who created all this in the first place, has been doing in secret and behind the scenes all along. Through followers of Jesus like yourselves gathered in churches, this extraordinary plan of God is becoming known and talked about even among the angels!
^11-13 All this is proceeding along lines planned all along by God and then executed in Christ Jesus. When we trust in him, we’re free to say whatever needs to be said, bold to go wherever we need to go. So don’t let my present trouble on your behalf get you down. Be proud!

 
For Reflection
We all have a variety of natural abilities.  But, natural ability is not the only, or even the primary, mark for successful living.  Aligning one's life to God's intention for us will focus our natural abilities righteously.  We are free to choose the path we walk.  We are free to choose God's path.

Pray

that you will follow God's plan for your life.  Pray that your natural abilities will be focused on righteous action.