We think that being powerful in God is an emotional thing. We’re flying high, we’re working miracles, we’re on intimate terms with God – or rather, we really don’t feel those things and think that everyone else does! Sure, sometimes the Christian life feels like flying and that is a good thing! It’s a blessing. But do you know what the bigger blessing is? Not feeling like flying – instead we’re trudging, shuffling, even crawling — but these are the most blessed times if we are depending on God. These are times when we are truly powerful because we can’t do anything under our own power. These are blessing times.…

I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,  and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power…