The Exceeding Greatness of His Power

Here is one of the great Scriptures that will make our faith strong and bold. Paul was writing to those who had been sealed with the Holy Spirit. And yet he felt the need for unceasing prayer and for the enlightening of the Spirit, so that they might truly know the mighty power of God working in them. It was nothing less than this same power by which He raised Christ from the dead.

Christ died on the tree, weighed down by the sin of the world and its curse. When He descended into the grave, it was under the weight of all that sin and under the power of the death that had apparently mastered Him. What a mighty working of the power of God, to raise that Man out of the grave to the power and the glory of His throne! And now it is that same power, in its “exceeding greatness…to us-ward who believe,” that we, by the teaching of the Holy Spirit, are to know as working in us every day of our lives.

It is by that same almighty power that the risen and exalted Christ can be revealed in our hearts as our life and strength. How rarely Christians believe this! Oh, let us cry to God; let us trust God for His Holy Spirit to enable us to claim nothing less every day than the “exceeding greatness” of this resurrection power working in us!

Let us especially pray for all believers around us and throughout the church, that they may have their eyes opened to the wonderful vision of God’s almighty resurrection power working in them. And let ministers, like Paul, make this a matter of continual intercession for those among whom they labor. What a difference it would make in their ministry—the unceasing prayer for the Spirit to reveal the power that dwells and works in them!