Francis Chan on the Enduring Power of God's Word in Christianity

Francis Chan shares his personal experience of studying the Bible for 40 years and how it has impacted his life.

He emphasizes the power and purity of God's Word, comparing it to clean water that can transform lives.

Francis encourages listeners to dive deeper into the Bible, memorize it, and pray like the Apostle Paul.

He shares a personal experience of being impacted by a sermon that focused on the book of Romans and how it led him to meditate and memorize the book of Ephesians.

This is, uh, this is crazy. Uh, the last time I spoke here, I thought was going to be the last time I would speak in America. Remember that? I mean, I really did a couple of years ago. I was just reminiscing like, man, I was on that stage going. This will be my last message to America. We are moving to Asia. We've seen God do amazing things and he did. And we were there And we sold everything. And I didn't know where God was going to take us. But I was excited about the journey. And so 13 of us moved to Hong Kong together. And we sold everything and thought this is where God wants us. And we're going to start going to some of these unreached people groups. And then COVID hit. And we went nowhere. And we're stuck in Hong Kong. Not stuck. That was God's design. We ended up loving it and going, okay, this is it. This is home. This is great. This will be our home base. We love these people. We love what's happening. Some churches are getting started. Everything else just falling in love with this new lifestyle. And then they declined our visa. And so we had to come back to the States about a year ago. And so here I am again. And, you know, but it's one of those things where we were so sad coming back to the U.S. Because we just felt like we could see what God was going to do through us in these other places. But he had other plans. And we get it now. We're starting to see more and more. But I got to tell you, there were a lot of tears, a lot of, like, disappointment. but I will say this conference on the Bible comes at such a good time because I don't know if I've ever loved the Word of God more than I love it right now. The Word of God has taken me to another level just in this last month. I've been studying this book for 40 years. I was thinking it's probably almost exactly 40 years where I was a high school student in Stockton, California. And my parents were dead. And my youth pastor, you know, my friend invites me to youth group. They tell me about Jesus. And my youth pastor teaches me how to study the word of God. And he's saying every day open this book. And so for 40 years, just about every day, I'm opening this book. ever since I was a 14-year-old and now I'm 54, just studying this book. But you guys, this last month or two, I'm reading this book and I'm going, what have I been reading all these years? Like the way the Apostle Paul is talking and his passion, his love, his mindset of these heavenly things. I mean, it's just getting my mind to this place where I'm going, God, I got to get there. I got to understand what he's talking about because it is so deep. It is so powerful. And I'm so glad you guys are doing this conference. Okay, first, first of all, I want to thank Ray Johnston, not just for doing this conference, But as I was sitting out there and hanging out with some of the staff and and yet tonight was the night we were going to celebrate our anniversary. And and they're like, well, can you come to the Bible conference instead? I'm like, OK, you know, and and so it was great, though. When we got here, they had a sushi laid out for, yeah, for my wife and I. And so we had a little room, which is my wife and I and the bodyguard they had for us. It's very intimate. And but but I was thinking about how many times I've been to this this church now. And and oddly, it does feel like home. It feels like, well, this is the last place I was going to speak in the U.S. And they come back and then Ray, for the last 20 years or so, our friendship, his love for the word of God, his stand on the word of God. And there are other guys that stand on the word of God. But I will say one thing I feel anyways, whether it's genuine or not, I don't know. But I feel very loved by him. You know, like he genuinely cares about me. And I find there's a lot of people that who tend to stand for the word of God can almost be like critical and judgmental and just kind of have that harsh spirit about him. And I thank God that Ray doesn't just stand on the word of God, but that that love of Christ comes out from him. And, you know, the older you get, the more you appreciate those types of relationships where you just go, gosh, thanks for still loving me after all of these years. So it's it's good to be here. But I will say that, you know, a few years ago, God gave me a picture about the word of God. I was thinking about, you know how if you go to India or Africa, I remember one time in India looking out my hotel window and seeing, you know, it had just rained. So there's all these mud puddles on the ground and there were people outside in the mud puddles washing their clothes. And I kept looking and thinking, gosh, does that do anything? Look how dirty that water is. But the clothes must have been really dirty. And so that must have done something, you know. And as I thought about that picture, I feel like a lot of times that dirty water is like my sermon. That it's not the pure word of God. There's something about the word of God where it's just pure. It's just a clear water. Once I touch it, then it becomes contaminated. You know, there's this old preacher. Well, a dead preacher. He died, I think, in the 40s. This guy named Smith Wigglesworth. And he says, the Bible is the only book I will read because these are the only words that are alive. You see, the Bible says that the word of God, it's living and active. It's sharper than a two-edged sword. There's something about the word itself that is the pure, pure. And so, yes, I can preach a sermon and use some of my own words, but I have that picture of that muddy puddle. That, yeah, if you're really messed up, my words can maybe clean you a little bit off. But the Word of God itself, just by itself, there's so much power in it. And I would beg you, you may be in the middle of books or whatever, I'm just saying, I've been doing a deeper dive into the Word of God. just nothing else, just the Word of God. Because I heard a sermon about a month and a half, two months ago, from a dear friend of mine. We were preaching together, my friend David Platt, who is another just man of God who loves the Word of God and loves Jesus deeply. And I heard him preaching, and I thought, that was the best sermon I've ever heard. Hands down, the best sermon I ever heard. because all he did was he said a few words, introduced his topic, and then he started quoting full chapters out of the book of Romans. And I'm sitting there listening to him and listening to the word of God. And it was like this. It was just like this clean water. just like it was just pure. These are the words of God. And it just started impacting me, changing me. And I'm like, this is so beautiful. This is so good. I need to get into the word. I need to memorize the word. So for the last month, I've been meditating and memorizing the book of Ephesians. And I'm listening to what the apostle Paul wrote. And I'm going, gosh, it is so deep. God, I want to think like him. I want my mind like that. I look at the way he prayed for people. And I'm going, well, I don't pray for people like this. I mean, in Ephesians 3, verse 14, he goes, for this reason, I bow. He goes, I bow my knees before the Father. I bow my knees from whom every family in heaven and earth is named. that according to the riches of his glory that he may grant you to be strengthened with power through the spirit in your inner being so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I'm looking at that and I'm going, wait, Paul is speaking to Christians. In chapter 1, he says, I've heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints so I don't stop giving thanks for you. So these are believers. And he's saying, and I'm on my knees praying for you believers. Praying for you believers who have faith in God and love for one another. I am praying. I'm on my knees before the God who spoke every family in heaven and on earth. He named them all. No one, nothing would exist outside of him. He goes, and I bow before him. and I say God according to the riches of your glory okay imagine the riches of his glory could you understand the glory of God like God's glory is so intense that we can't look at him right now if we saw him we would immediately just disintegrate, collapse humans can't look upon him because of his glory and Paul is saying I'm on my knees asking that according to the riches of your glory, would you grant them? Would you just give it to them? You've got to give it to them Would you grant them to be strengthened with power through the Spirit in their inner being Why? So that Christ may dwell in their hearts through faith. And I thought, what? Paul, you're saying you need all of the riches of His glory, Him in all of His majesty to grant us this tremendous strength in the Holy Spirit. Why? So that Christ could dwell in us. And I thought, we take this for granted. We just figure, no, no, isn't that the first thing that happens? That once you fall in love with Jesus, you know, someone tells you the gospel. Okay, Jesus is knocking on the door of your heart. Now He's in. He dwells in there. He lives with us. And there's some truth to that. But why is Paul on his knees then? Speaking to believers and saying, I'm on my face before God, begging him according to the riches of his glory, that he would just grant it to you. This isn't something I can make happen to you. He's got to just, out of the riches of his glory, grant it to you. I'm just going to drop it on you right now. this incredible strength from the Holy Spirit into the inner part of you so that Christ would just dwell there. And I thought, God, I don't pray like this for my people. Maybe the shallowness of the church is because the shallowness of our prayers. God, am I praying for that type of strength? You know, my wife and I were watching some movie about plutonium or something, And, you know, it's just like, and I'm not a scientist, believe it or not. But you know how they have those nuclear meltdowns or whatever, like Chernobyl, that type of thing. Because somehow, whatever it is, escapes, right? And you can't contain it. You don't just put that and go, oh, I got some plutonium. Oh, I got a paper bag here. Or recyclable plastic. You know, put it in. you don't do that. It can't contain that. I think about that when I think about that verse. Where he says, I'm asking you by the riches of your glory. Would you cause, would you make, would you just create this space in me to where God Almighty could actually dwell inside of me? See, for so many years we just go, oh yeah, just ask Jesus in your heart. do you know who you're asking to enter into the core of your being? This isn't just some little silly thing that happens. If we say, oh God, I'm on my knees. Just saying, God, out of the riches of your glory, would you just give it to them? Grant them to be strengthened with power through your spirit in the inner being so that Christ may dwell in their hearts through faith. when's the last time you were on your knees praying for someone else in this church that God would dwell, that Christ would dwell in their hearts through faith, saying, God, you've got to make it happen. You've got to make it happen, because this is the problem. This is why we get in church fights. This is why divorces happen. This is why people are depressed. This is why people are addicted. and will go to all of these different symptoms. And we'll say, God, get her off drugs. God, help them give it along. God, help them not be so angry. God, you know, help them not to be so divisive. You know, and it's like, it's not the issue. There's something deeper going on. And Paul's on his knees and saying, look, if God Almighty, if Christ himself dwelt in your heart through faith, that is huge and he says that you being rooted and grounded in love may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and the length and the height and the depth see a lot of people here you know even listening wherever you are you've heard about Christ and everything else but you get the breadth and the length than the height and the depth. Do you understand how big this is? This is not just, oh, you know, a little religion or something that's good for you. Let me have a little bed. No, what Scripture's saying is I'm begging that he would just give you strength, that you with the saints would get how wide and long and high and deep. He says, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge. Wait, to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge? Isn't that the first thing we learn? See, we're thinking about information. Probably the first verse you heard was, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. And so you go, okay, great. now I know the love of Christ. Well, no, you know a fact about the love of Christ. Paul is saying, I'm on my knees and I'm begging the God who made everything that according to the riches of his glory, that he would just grant you to be strengthened with power through the spirit in your inner being so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith and then you being rooted and grounded in love that you would have strength to comprehend with the saints what's the breadth and length and height and depth and to know the love of Christ that surpasses comprehension. So all of that has to happen so that you would know the love of Christ. This is not something that just someone recites to you and go, okay, check. Yes, Jesus loves me. I know people who have been in churches for decades and don't know, don't really know the love of Christ. There are scholars who know this book in the Greek and Hebrew and don't know the love of Christ. Because the love of Christ, he says, it surpasses knowledge. It's not information that comes out of my mouth, goes into your ears, and you go, great, I got it. It requires this mysterious power from heaven. According to the riches of his glory, so many things to happen. All within his granting. like some of you may have heard the gospel a thousand times and you believe it but you don't know the love of christ you don't really know the gospel and god could change all of that right now some of you man you visit christ every sunday but does he dwell in your heart through faith? Does he just live there to where you're rooted and grounded in him? Like it's in your inner being, your inner being. See, this is tough because some of you are just good people, like nice people or obedient people or people pleasing people. And so people ask you to do something. You know, if Ray says, Hey, give some money in the Bible project. Okay. You know, I like Ray. I like this church. Go do this. Attend the Bible conference. Go do it. And you'll do it because people ask you to. Maybe your parents brought you up in this. Maybe your wife is asking you to do it. And you comply. You comply. But that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about something coming from the inside. And it's not just like externally. But Christ dwells in your heart through faith. and he says that you may know the love of christ that surpasses knowledge so that you may be filled with the fullness of god that you may be filled with all no not some of it all the fullness of god paul's on his knees when's the last time you got on your knees and prayed this for people. In this church, when's the last time you prayed for your pastors, for Andrew, for Ray? It's like, God, I just want all your fullness. I want them filled with all the fullness of Christ. Sometimes we'll look at friends of ours that maybe aren't far along in the journey or they're wrestling so much and you go, God, just help them to stop fighting. Help them take this next step. And you don't even dream about them being filled with all the fullness of God. Some of you in this room, some of you that are watching right now, you're just happy with some Jesus in you. And you're just happy to avoid some of these sins. You're not even thinking about me being filled with all the fullness of God? Is that even possible? See, some of us aren't even thinking that or aren't thinking that's possible to be filled with all the fullness of God. That's why in the very next verse, he says, now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power that's at work within us. It says we're praying to the one who's able to do more, far more abundantly than all that we ask or think. okay can you at least imagine yourself being filled with all the fullness of god well the word of god says that that's according to the power that's at work within us he can do more than we ask or think and I going God I want this I want this in 2022 I don't know how much longer I have. You guys, in a group this size, we know for many of us, this is our last year on earth. And then we stand before that God. And I'm going, God, this is not about me doing, doing, doing this year. I go, God, I want to be filled with all your fullness. I want to know the love of Christ like never before. I want to be so secure in you that if this is my year, that when I come into your presence, it's not that big of a shift. Because I am so filled with your fullness. And I so know the love of Christ so much. And I so get how wide and long and high and deep. And you've really been just dwelling, living, abiding in me. And I'm telling you, all of this has been starting to happen in my life because I've been memorizing the word of God. And I am begging you to take some time because I got out of practice. It's been a few decades, honestly, since I got serious about memorizing the word of God. and now that by the grace of God he showed me how important it was. It's been changing me. It's all I think about and I love it. I love it. Please, just right now, take a sip of this water. Just listen to the power of the word of God. Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God to the saints who are in Ephesus and are faithful in Christ Jesus grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places even as he chose us in and before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him in love he predestined us for adoption as sons in christ jesus according to the purpose of his will to the praise of his glorious grace with which he has blessed us in the beloved in him we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of his grace which he lavished upon us in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will according to his purpose that he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation and believed in him, You are sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it to the praise of his glory. For this reason, because I've heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you. Remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him. you understand that that he would just give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of him having the eyes of your hearts enlightened that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints what is immeasurable greatness of power toward us who believe according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him in the heavenly places far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and above every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in the one that is to come. And he put all things under his feet and gave him his head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him fills all in all. And you were dead in your sins, your trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work and the sons of disobedience, among whom we all once lived in the desires of our flesh, the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind. And we were by nature children of wrath like the rest of the mankind. But God being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he loved us. Even when we were dead in our trespasses, he made us alive together with Christ. By grace you've been saved and raised us up with him. And he seated us with him in the heavenly places so that in the coming ages, he might show the immeasurable riches of grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you've been saved through faith. This is not your own doing. It's a gift of God, not as a result of works that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God determined beforehand that we should walk in them. Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh called the uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands. Remember that at that time you were separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. but in Christ Jesus but now in Christ Jesus you who were once far off and brought near through the blood of Christ for he himself is our peace who has made us both one and he has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off, and peace to those who were near. He came and preached peace to you who were far off, and to you who were near, so that now, in him, we both have access in one spirit to the Father. so then you're no longer strangers and aliens but you're fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone in whom the whole structure being joined together grows into a holy temple in the Lord in him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit for this reason I Paul a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles, assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace given to me for you, how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, which is not made known to the sons of men and other generations that has now been made known to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and members of the same bodies and partakers of the promise in Christ, partakers in the promise of Christ through the gospel. Of this gospel, I was made a minister according to the working of his grace, according to the gift of God's grace by the working of his power. To me, it was given, though I am the least of all the disciples, this grace was given to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ and to bring to light for everyone. What is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things so that through the church, the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. This was according to his eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus, our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access and confidence. So I ask I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory. For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory, that he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, 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 which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think according to the power that's at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen. I therefore, prisoner for the Lord Jesus, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you've been called. With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the spirit and the bond of peace. There's one body and one spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call. There's one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all through all and in all. But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore, it says, when he ascended on high, he led a host of captives and he gave gifts to men. In saying he ascended, what does it mean? But that he also descended into the lower regions. He who descended is the one who also ascended far above the heavens that he might fill all things. And he gave apostles and the prophets and the evangelists and the shepherds and teachers to equip the saints for the work of ministry. For building up the body of Christ until we all attain to the unity of faith and the knowledge of the Son of God. To mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. so we may no longer be children blown and tossed by every wave, carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness and deceitful schemes. Rather speaking the truth in love we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head into Christ from whom the whole body being joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped When each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. This I say and testify in the Lord that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do in the futility of their minds. They're darkened their understanding. They are alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them. Because of their hardness of heart. They've become callous. They've given themselves up to sensuality. They are greedy to practice every kind of impurity. But that is not the way that you were taught Christ. assuming that you've heard about him and you were taught in him as the truth is in Jesus. The truth is in Jesus. I went blank. I had it all before I got here. You get the point. What I want to say. I know, I know. I lost my train. You know, COVID and everything. I will say, like, I started memorizing right after Thanksgiving. And I had the book of Ephesians down by Christmas. And that was not easy. At my age, to not memorize and to go, go, go, go, go. and I got it to where I could quote the whole book in 15 minutes. And I was like, okay, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it. But then it just goes and it's not easy in front of a crowd either. But what I'm saying is everything that comes my way, like these are the phrases that I'm thinking about all day. You know, later on in chapter 5 and 6 when he says, look, we don't wrestle against flesh and blood. And I'm listening to these words. We don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but against rulers, authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in heavenly places. I go, gosh, when do we think about these things? that right now, you know, that there are rulers in the heavenly, there's cosmic powers over this present darkness. We get angry at people. We get angry at politicians. We get angry at, you know, stars or athletes or whatever. And he's just saying, we're not wrestling with flesh and blood. Do you wonder, what does that phrase even mean? The cosmic powers over this present darkness. because we're not wrestling against flesh and blood. And so if me and what's your name, Brian, why does she say Dane? Okay. Oh, okay. Did you tell her your name was Dane? Okay. So Brian, or did you think this was Dane? And you've, okay. So anyways, so Brian, let's say Brian and I start fighting. what do I do? I just start praying, God, you know what? Fix Brian, help not to get so mad, whatever. I'm not thinking that there's more going on than this. And what God's saying is, you're not wrestling against flesh and blood. That's not Brian. There's like something going on in the spiritual realms that's causing us both to get irritated with one another. there's these cosmic powers over this present darkness. And if Christ isn't dwelling in our hearts through faith, it's not, oh God, I just, you know, let's fix this relationship. No, no, it's doing that hard work of me getting on my knees. God, would you just grant him? God, according to the riches of God, would you just give it to him? Just give it to him. We're inside, like suddenly, whoa, I get it. the eyes of my heart have been enlightened and I suddenly know what I've been called to. And now Christ God lives and it's changed everything. And he's praying for me the same things, these biblical prayers. Not just what comes to my head. I would never have come up with this stuff. Right? And I would never think that he chose me before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him. I'm thinking I was born in 1967 and you know when I was 14 someone told me about Jesus and God says no I chose you in him before the foundation of the world that you would be holy and blameless in love I predestined you to be adopted as my son and I'm going whoa are you kidding me and so now you've given me these works to do that you prepared before I was even born, before the foundation of the world, like you knew that I would be here and not get through Ephesians. Like you knew for some reason this was going to happen and Brian was going to be here and everything else. So it's all ordained by him. And so it's true. We live in a crazy world and no one knows the truth anymore. No one knows. It's crazy how everyone thinks they know. And guys who failed biology know everything about the virus somehow. And they're sure their opinion is right, right? Like, it's just a world we live in where you go, what's the truth? And I'm going, this is all I know anymore. This is all I know anymore. And the more I have meditated on this and memorized it, and I'm playing these phrases over and over in my head, the more God has just put me in this other place where I go, God, this is where I want to end it. So I praise God for what you're doing today. And I praise God that what you're about to do is to give this incredible gift to people who don't have it. I'm a part of Illuminations. We are about getting the word of God to people all around. But I don't, again, I don't want this to be an external thing where we talk you into giving some money to this. I want this really coming from the inside where Christ dwells in your heart through faith that you go, God, I want this for other people. I want them to hear the words of this truth. So I would like to pray that prayer over you, not as a trite way to end a talk or something like that. But I want this for you. I want us to dwell in the love of Christ. I want us to be rooted and grounded in love. And I feel like there's been a generation of church in this country where it maybe feels a little external and maybe shallow. And it's not coming from the inside out. And so I want to pray this with faith right now That god could change everything Even those of you guys that are watching on zoom I was thinking about that that passage in matthew 8 where that centurion goes jesus You don't have to come to my house. You can just you can just send someone You do that remember that and he goes well i've never seen faith like that You don't have to be in this room. I don't have to touch you. I don't need you on your knees or whatever We need the god according to the rich of his glory just to grant this to you wherever you are. If you're sitting in your room in front of a computer screen like that miracle could happen right now because I have access to him. We have access to him. So let me pray this over you right now. God, you are our only hope. this is our only hope is your grace that you would just grant God according to the riches of your glory we think about you on your throne you're holy, holy, holy we can't even look upon you all the angels are even covering themselves up and according to the riches of that kind of glory God would you just grant us grant everyone that's watching Would you just grant us to be strengthened with power by your spirit in our inner beings. So that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith. God that we would be rooted and grounded in love. And we'd 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. God, so many people know about the love of Christ, but they don't know. They don't experientially just know, Jesus so loves me and I know it. God, I pray that you would just grant people to get it and know that they're loved by you. Even if they don't feel loved by anyone else, they know that they're loved by you so that they could be filled with all the fullness of you. Father, we don't want a little more of you this year. God, would this be the year where we are filled with all the fullness of God? now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think according to the power that's at work within us to you god be glory in the church and in christ jesus throughout all generations forever and ever amen Amen.

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