Oh, the Scope of God's Plan!

Dennis and I have been back in the states for a month now. Today we finished our first week of three weeks of training in Indy. Practical and worthwhile seminars have been filling our minds as we learn of the many facets of living cross-culturally - from team dynamics to knowing the process of evacuation from a country if necessary to living incarnationally.

Taking notes, engaging, interacting, getting in the Word, laughing, praying, singing. . . have all been a part of this first week. These verses from Ephesians 3:14-19 especially spoke to me one day. I trust they will be a source of blessing and encouragement to you.

When I think of the wisdom and scope of God's plan, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will give you mighty inner strength through his Holy Spirit. And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God's marvelous love. And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it. Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God.