If anyone does, Paul should know!<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
About \u201cinner strength.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s that?\u201d<\/p>\n
Well, let him tell you himself:<\/p>\n
That in keeping with His glorious riches, by His Spirit, He may make it possible for you to be strengthened with power in the inner person.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eph. 3:16<\/p>\n
\u201cOh good! You just gave me a new entry for my 3:16 list of verses!\u201d<\/p>\n
Glad for that, but did you get what He was saying?<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, not exactly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paul had mentioned the afflictions that he suffered for Christ (v. 13). Amazing how he kept going in spite of them!<\/p>\n
\u201cYep.\u201d<\/p>\n
Well, have you ever thought what it was that enabled him to keep up serving Christ?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGratitude?\u201d<\/p>\n
Certainly that! In\u00a02 Corinthians 4:1 he makes that clear. But how do you think that he could keep from giving up merely out of gratitude?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSomething to do with that Ephesians verse you just quoted?\u201d<\/p>\n
Right on! He needed internal strength (lit., dunamis<\/em>, which means power or strength). And in v. 20 he says that power \u201cis working in us.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHow is that?\u201d<\/p>\n We don\u2019t understand all of the particulars, but he says that it is the Spirit that provides it. The Spirit helps him see<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If anyone does, Paul should know! \u201cWhat?\u201d About \u201cinner strength. \u201cWhat\u2019s that?\u201d Well, let him tell you himself: That in keeping with His glorious riches, by His Spirit, He may make it possible for you to be strengthened with power in the inner person.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eph. 3:16 \u201cOh good! You just gave me a new entry …
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