Most of you know that I have just recently experienced a time of facing giants and of hardship. But I have to share with you that since I have come through that very difficult time I have been changed on the inside. I have a desire to read my Bible like I have never experienced before. And God is revealing such wonderful things to me in His word.
In fact just yesterday God reveled a piece of scripture to me that I can pray for my husband. I am so excited, and quite amazed. It is a piece of scripture that I have read over a dozen time before yet never really saw it.
It is Eph 1 : 16 – 19 and it reads:
I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. 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 also 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 the saints and His incomparably great power for us who believe.
Let me break it down
I have not stopped giving thanks for you – God is saying to me that I must be thankful for the husband that I have and not grumble about silly things. I must give thanks for him!!
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. – This is exactly what I want for him – but never quite new how to ask for it. A spirit of wisdom and revelation is exactly it!! I couldn't have put it better myself.
that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you – This is especially awesome because I know what he has been called to. God has shown me the plans He has for him and I cannot wait for it all to happen!! And for him to finally know how powerfully God is going to use him to advance His Kingdom.
I mean, isn't this just amazing?? This is exactly what I so badly want for my husband. Not for me (anymore) but for Gods kingdom and for himself. Wisdom and revelation are the most wonderful things you can ask for. And I just shared this very same verse with that young lady I told you about in my previous post and she was encouraged by it too. I really feel that this is a powerful scripture to pray over a loved one who is not saved.
And, it is a prayer I can pray for my children and for myself so that we can know God better too.
Isn’t God good?
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Thanks for your comment!!! I've missed blogging :) That is an awesome prayer, by the way.
wow, what a wonderful reading!
Something very beautiful is springing up through the soil of your life. It's like the winter was harsh, snow, tough conditions, stopping growth - well the conditions would try to say that, when in fact, you have been pushing through and new life coming. Like a crocus bursting through (Is that Is 35? can't recall). It really is during these dark periods that we are refined, renewed, changed. Thanks for sharing.
That is so neat what treasures God has shared with you for your husband and yourself. Thanks for sharing...keep on going.... you are an encouragement to those around you. Thanks for visiting me the other day...
Yes! He really is...
Thank you so much for sharing the experiences you are having with Him, it is encouraging to all of us. :)
Our Heavenly Father is perfect Brigitte and wants the best for us that is to know him as such.
I was struck by that same phrase "Spirit of wisdom and revelation" a month or so back. What a thing to desire for yor husband. You know that I am praying for you all.
love Gail
Wow Spookie, this is brilliant and such an encouragemnt to me. I've pretty much given up hope for my husband and haven't really been praying for him any more as it seemed futile.
But I love that verse about wisdom and what a powerful prayer it is. Thank you for sharing this as it has encouraged me to keep pressing in for my hubby too and not to give up hope.
Bless you Bridgette
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