Sunday March 4th will start Seek Week here at SWAG. Over the last few years we have encouraged people to set aside some time during Seek Week to spend with Jesus. Usually Seek Week has been towards the very beginning of a new year. Scheduling this year pushed it further out. Interestingly enough Seek Week falls right in the midst of the traditional forty days of Lent.
Personally I am concentrating on some verses written by the Apostle Paul to the church in the city of Ephesus. These verses describe Paul’s prayer for the church in Ephesus and his heart for the followers of Jesus in that city.
I pray that from His glorious, unlimited resources He will empower you with inner strength through His Spirit. Then Christ will make His home in your hearts as you trust in Him. Your roots will grow down into God's love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. 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. (Ephesians 3:16-20 NLT)
His prayer is that God will empower people; that God will cause their roots to grow down into His love and keep them strong. That they would understand God’s love. That they would understand how absolutely amazing that love towards us is.
These verses describe my desire for each of you. I take seriously the responsibility of caring for those that Jesus has entrusted to me. Often I feel so incredibly inadequate in my ability and in my performance as a pastor. Though I am inadequate, God is adequate. God’s adequacy comes to each of us in Jesus Christ! Paul wrote that God is able to ‘accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.’
Jesus, empower your people, cause their roots to grow deep in your love. Keep us strong. Help us understand God’s love. Amen
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