Bowing Before the Father

We Worship God
A Guide for Worship Leaders:
Tree of Life

Ephesians 3:14-21 (The Message)

 ^14-19My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you'll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ's love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.
 ^20-21God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.

   Glory to God in the church!
   Glory to God in the Messiah, in Jesus!
   Glory down all the generations!
   Glory through all millennia! Oh, yes!

 For ReflectionThe question is not, "How perfect is my prayer?  The question is. "Do I pray?"  Some times we get so tied up in the need to pray perfect prayers we use our feeling of inadequacy in prayer as an excuse to avoid prayer.  God hears all prayers, good and bad.  He wants us to pray deeply, and often.  Prayer is a sign that we truly recognize the power of God.  Prayer is a major practice that binds us to our faith.  How do you pray?

Pray
to the glory of God in the church.  Pray to God in the Messiah. Pray prayers of glory to God in the Messiah, in Jesus! Pray so that all generations will hear.  Pray prayers that will speake through all millenni.gh all millennia!  Oh Yes!