Brown's Daily Word - HALLELUJAH!!! 9/18/07

Good Morning.
It is going to be a brilliant day. Thank You Jesus. During one of our meetings yesterday I read from Ephesians 3:20-21: "Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen."
The New International Version states, "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine" – Indeed, God is able to do so much more that you can’t even measure what God is Able to do
The King James Version translates this - "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us"
The New American Standard Version, "Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us"
The New American Standard Updated Edition Translates this, "Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us"
This is a fun phrase in the original language. Paul uses a double compound word; he actually makes up his own word phrase. He is so caught up in the BIGNESS and AWESOMENESS of God, he creates a new word phrase to make his point. He stacks these words upon each other in an attempt to say something to indicate that God is beyond the descriptions available in human language. He is
beyond words. Paul morphs all these words together to make his point,
saying that God is Incredibly Incredible, Extravagantly Extravagant, Awesomely Awseome in His Awesomeness, Outrageously Outrageous, Fantastically Fantastic, Amazingly Amazing, Infinitely Infinite – all the time.
Here is what I believe the point is – There is no box Big enough to hold our God. God is Ably Able in His Ability. Our words cannot fully Express what we know and Feel. There’s no such word that can contain ALL of WHO HE is and ALL of what He can do. Our God is Indescribably indescribable. God is Able – that would be enough said. God Can! God is! God is Able to do! This would be enough to have our hearts beat with Confidence and Faith, but then our hearts would beat a few beats faster when we realize that our God is able to do more than what we ask or imagine. Our hearts should be pounding in Praise because our God is able to do abundantly more.
He provides at just the right time, in just the right way, with everything I need and then more besides. God is the God of the “and then some more”. Lamentations 3:22-23 states, "Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
God is Able to do MORE. His Ability is Incredible, Outrageous, and Extravagant. He exceeds the Expectation. You Get more than what you expect from God. God is Faithful. God is Able..
God didn’t make just a single drop of water He made Oceans of water
God didn’t create just 1 star – God made Galaxies
God didn’t just make a single kind of bird – God created 1,000s kinds of birds
God didn’t just make a hill – God made the Rockie Mountains
God didn’t just make the Sun – God made the Sunsets and Sunrises….
He Exceeds all the Expectations. He is able to do far more abundantly beyond all we ask or imagine, Above and Beyond all. He Exceeds Expectations with His Excellence because He is God.
There are No Limits to His Love, No Boundaries to His Blessing, No Fences withholding His Faithfulness; No Lines drawn separating us from His Salavation
No Guard Rails against His Grace, No Containers holding His Compassion, No Restrictions to Experiencing His Righteousness.
God’s Power - that is to say, God’s “Able to do immeasurably more power!” is “FAR MORE ABUNDANTLY BEYOND ALL I can ask or think”. Power? Guess where this Power is. Guess where this Power works. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us.
This word, which is translated as power, if transliterated into English, would be closer to our word for dynamite. It is speaking of the power of dynamite, Explosive Energy, and Awesome Ability. There is Tremendous power given and at work within us. God’s Power is in us,but we have to get plugged in and get connected with God. We need to be wired in. There is a Connection made so that the Power can Flow.
Then we must get turned On, that is to say, Flip the Switch! We say, “YES” to the Lord. “I am ready to Receive You and what You have for Me. You are the Power. You are My Strength. I need You. You are Able – I believe that. I will live that. I will trust that.
God gives us power to do what? In a word – it is the Power to Love! Listen to the Prayer that Paul prays for these believers. It is a Prayer of Power and a Prayer for Power in Ephesians 3:16-19, " I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith."
Jesus isn’t just taking a Vacation with us. Our Heart becomes His Home. His address is now our lives. He lives with us as a Permanent Residence
"And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."
God gives the Power to be rooted in His Love, the Power to be established, grounded in Love. His is the Power to Grasp His Love, which means to literally “take hold of it with the intent of never letting it go”. to possess it, to seize this Love. He wants us to Comprehend how wide His love is, to grasp how long is His Love is, how far will His Love go to reach to you and to me. His is the power to grasp how High His love is, so High that it came down from the Throne of God, and to grasp how deep is His Love. He wants us to experience every dimension of His Love.

Power to Know that this Love surpasses all that we can know about Love. There is nothing like this love. Not then. Not Now. Not ever. This love surpasses all our knowledge. We can never come to know all that love is but we are spend our lives trying. To know what can never be fully known. The more I learn of His Love for me the more I want to learn…
Power to be Filled with God and to be filled with His Love… Power to Serve in His Love -- Power to Surrender to His Love, that Christ may dwell in your hearts. Surrender to Jesus as Lord… God is Able – There is power through us.Eph 3:21-- to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

To Him be Glory in the Church…means that we, as the Church, the Called out ones of God, are to present God in all His Brilliant Splendor, that He is to be seen in all His Majestic Beauty. To Him be the Glory in the Church -- This is our purpose. This is our mission. This is our desire. This is our value. This is what we live for…this is our essence. Our lives are to be His Glory! Our Love is to be His Glory.
In Christ,
Brown

Psalm 29:2 -- Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis


TEN REASONS ADAM WAS THE LUCKIEST MAN EVER:

1. He is the only man who has never been compared to the man she could have
married.

2. He had no in-laws to drop in.

3. There were no Jones for him to keep up with.

4. There were no credit cards OR shopping centers.

5. He never had his dinner interrupted by a telemarketer.

6. He got away with wearing a simple wardrobe.

7. He never had to shovel snow!

8. If he had gone bald, who would have known that wasn't normal?

9. There was no "standard weight and height" tables - and the word FAT meant
good.

10. When God asked "Adam, where are you?" He replied, "The woman you gave me
was reading the map."