Circling ‘Immeasurably More’
“Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we could ask or imagine, according to His power at work within us, to Him be the Glory …” (Ephesians 3:20)
One of those verses that never gets old. Unless you let it.
It’s a forward-looking promise to hang on when I’m out of my element, out of ideas or out of options. And that happens often here.
Can I really be an adequate interim parent for two teenagers abandoned by their mom until God provides more permanent foster parents?
Will God heal a faithful and faith-filled couple that just discovered they are HIV positive, and protect their unborn baby from the disease?
Will my friend reach his goal of staying clean from meth for an entire year and grow as a committed husband and father?
Will God build a movement to create real change in rural communities to stop this cycle of family and community brokenness that so often leads to participation in the sex industry?
I returned from our visit to the U.S. with a lot of questions and very few clear answers. But what I did gain was a fresh sense of anticipation that God both CAN move and WANTS TO move in these situations and many others.
But here’s the catch: He also wants US to move. He wants us to move first in the form of prayer.
Thanks to NCC Pastor Mark Batterson’s new book The Circle Maker, our team has a new vernacular for prayer. We’re dreaming bigger. We’re praying harder. We’re thinking longer.
We’re praying circles around the promise that God is able and will do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine in each of these situations and many others. Will you commit to pray with us?
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