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Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 884 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Through the Power of the Work in Us – Meditation Monday


Thank you for joining us for our five days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is Day 884 of our Trek, and it is time for Meditation Monday.  Taking time to relax, refocus, and reprioritize our lives is crucial in order to create a living legacy.  For some, it may just be time alone for quiet reflection.  Some may utilize structured meditation practices. In my life meditation includes reading and reflecting on God’s Word, and in prayer.  It is a time to renew my mind, refocus on what is most important, and making sure that I am nurturing my soul, mind, and body.  As you come along with me on our trek each Meditation Monday, it is my hope an prayer that you too will experience a time for reflection and renewing of your mind.

 

We are broadcasting from our studio at ‘The Big House’ in Marietta, OH.  The three controlling forces which most people strive for is power, money, and sex.  If you study groups of people for very long, such as politicians, business people, and unfortunately even in ministry you will soon realize that most are driven by one of these three motivators.  We may disguise it as something else and many times even convince ourselves that we do not fall prey to them, but when all the chaff is blown away, we see the real kernel of truth.   As Christ follows this is most unfortunate.  We have unmeasurable power and riches dwelling within us, and yet we do not accept it or plug into those resources which are so readily available.  Our Meditation Monday today we will learn that we can do anything
Through the Power at Work in Us
Jesus desires his disciples to praise the Father! Ponder Paul's beautiful prayer in the verses below. He not only praises the Father, but he also asks for the Father's help. In particular, this great church-planter and disciple-maker prays for the strengthening of the fellow Christ followers he loves. He does not pray for generic strength, but for the Holy Spirit's empowered strength in Ephesians 3:16: I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit.

The result of this prayer for strength should make your hearts beat a little faster. While the glory for the great things that the Holy Spirit does will go to God, the people through whom the Spirit works will be folks just like you and me, Jesus’s disciples. Notice something else that Paul prays in Ephesians 3:20: Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.God can and will do "infinitely more than we might ask or think.”  Notice how it is done "through His mighty power at work within us."

So here are several things to ponder, and then take appropriate action:

Pray frequently for God to strengthen specific followers of Christ through the Holy Spirit.
Pray regularly that their work inspired by the Spirit will bring God glory.
Pray passionately that these Christ followers will be used by God to accomplish — and that they get to experience — "infinitely more than we might ask or think.”

Paul prayed these things for the Christ Followers who received his letter called Ephesians. You should pray these things regularly for each other. Imagine releasing the power that comes from the Father, Son, and Spirit — into the lives of people you love. Think about all the people in your spiritual family who need God’s comfort, strength, and grace. Invite the Holy Spirit to move mightily through you, your fellowship, your congregation, your home gatherings, and your small groups. Pray that you and your fellow Christians bring th...