The reason I want to share it with you and the reason I believe it's encouraging is because I struggle with this all the time. I am not great at prayer, and when it comes to the specifics I often don't really know what to say when it comes to spiritual growth. Well, other than the usual "God please help me continue to grow closer to you every day."
I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through the his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust him. Your roots will grow down into God's love and keep your strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, high high, and how deep is love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fulness of life and power that comes from God. Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we could ever ask or think. Glory to him and the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen. (Ephesians 3:16-21)
Imagine a prayer including words like: unlimited resources, empowering, trust, roots, growing, understanding, love, glory, accomplishing infinitely more, etc.
I believe we can go deeper, along with being more specific and direct. I know for me, I put God into a box in my prayers because I am not specific enough. One of the best ways to set your sights on accomplishing a goal is to be clear and specific. When I ran my financial practice, we would have monthly vision meetings where we would share what we wanted, and what our goals were. Here again I struggled, I would talk about how I wanted a truck, and how I wanted to take my wife on these amazing vacations, but I never would give a specific timeline, make on the truck, or what I really needed to do in order to make that happen.
Whether it's spiritual growth or growing as a person, there is power in being specific. I encourage you to commit to that as you start your week, be specific about everything you do and everything you want. It will be worth it, and it will start to bring you some clarity.
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