Dreams

I've had some great dreams recently, sure they're only dreams, but it's nice to dream sometimes. I love that God is Sovereign, and that He has power to do anything... He parted the red sea, He raises the dead to life, He calms the storm.

Yesterday I came across a great version of Ephesians 3:19-21 in The Message and it says that God can do far more than we can request in our wildest dreams. Yes, His dreams may be different dreams to those we come up with, but He has good plans for us - though there is difficulty and adversity, His plans are good and He promises to be with us and to guide us if we seek His wisdom.

^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!