Trust And Blessing

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Why does a nation turn from the Lord? He who sits in the heavens laughs, and warns. We can defy and perish - or surrender and be blessed. In our nation currently, we seem to be in Psalm 2, conspiring together and raging against the Lord and rushing headlong to authoritarianism. Come, let us pray for the rulers and authorities across the land - that they would heed the warning, and willingly submit to the Lord’s Anointed, while they still are able. Prayer Insights … from Alistair Begg Last week we learned about <a href="https://epaphrasprays.substack.com/p/pray-big-prayers">praying bigger prayers</a>, better prayers as Alistair used the letter from the apostle Paul to the Ephesian church to highlight four qualities which Paul prays for the them: Focus, Hope, Riches, Power. This week we’ll add his fifth quality: Love Eph 3:17-19 … that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Paul prayed the church would grow in their comprehension of the immeasurable love God has for us. “Paul wants them, and us, to experience the joy of knowing the unknowable — of knowing how loved we are.” He wants us to know this corporately as a church; he wants us to think properly and know this love in our minds and not just as a feeling. And he wants to know this love is comprehensive, it is so vast it goes beyond what can be measured. Writes Matthew Henry: the apostle designs to signify the exceeding greatness of the love of Christ … which is higher than heaven, deeper than hell, longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. (Commentary on the Whole Bible) See also what Paul wrote to the Philippians 2:5-11 While we are unable to “measure the love of Christ, we can obs

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