“Power From Intercessory Prayer!”

“Power From Intercessory Prayer”(Eph.3:14-21).
“…I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.”
In a WhatsApp chat with a colleague who at one time seemingly abandoned me, he said, “Rev. I really wonder your source of strength to have weathered the storm that almost engulfed you for three to four years now!” I just smiled and let it go! Then I remembered what a lady in my village told me a few months ago. I had stopped and bought twenty liters of petrol from her. There was a mimbo house nearby. She later told me that as soon as I left, the conversation for some thirty minutes was about me. The claimant voices pushing the point that even though I’m a pastor I have “unimaginable powers!” I told her, of course “I have powers, because I have unwavering trust in Christ; my human frailties notwithstanding.”
Both tbe spiritual and the physical universes are inundated with powers. Paul attests to this in his letter to the Ephesian Christians (Eph.6:12).
I will refer bookworms to the “Power Trilogy” of Walter Wink for an in-depth study of the concept of power. The books are “Naming the Powers”, “Unmasking the Powers”, and “Engaging the Powers.” Other books of his on power are, “The Powers that Be: Theology for a New Millennium”, and ” When the Powers Fall: Reconciliation in the Healing of Nations.”
In our text Christians can reach their full potential of power through intercessory prayers.
Once we are strengthened with power through the Spirit in our inner being, Christ will dwell in our hearts through faith.
When this happens we will be “rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints.” This initiates us into the full dimensions of the love of Christ, and to know this lovr that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”
God is able to do this to us immeasurably. It is only when we reach this full potential that we can boast that “we carry grace!” We would then come to that unity of the diversty of cultures in what Andrew F. walls calls, “The Ephesian Moment.” To this end, “we are more than conquerors” because Christ dwells in our hearts.
We are going to be what God wants us to become when we pray in earnest and genuinely for others.
Prayer: Father, continue to strengthen us with power through your Spirit in our inner beings so that Christ dwells in our hearts. Amen!
Have a blessed day! Peace be with you!
Rev Babila Fochang.