More than we ask
Paul had just prayed that believers would grasp the vastness of Christ's love. Then he closes that prayer with a doxology: God can do far more than we can ask or imagine.
Our prayers are often small because our expectations are small. Bring God one specific request today, and then leave room for Him to answer in a bigger way than you dared to hope.
Father, my prayers are often smaller than Your power. Enlarge my faith today, and help me trust Your work within me, even in the things I have stopped asking You about. Amen.
ὑπερεκπερισσοῦ (hyperekperissou (hoo-per-ek-per-ees-SOO)). “Far more abundantly.” Paul stacks two prefixes meaning “beyond” and “beyond exceedingly” to describe God's power. He does not want us to measure God by our own limits.
Ephesians 3 is a prayer that Paul prays for the church in Ephesus. The doxology in verses 20 and 21 closes the prayer and points the church toward God's glory in the community of believers.
Hudson Taylor founded the China Inland Mission in London. It sent missionaries deep into the interior of China, and many of its workers went on to serve without a guaranteed salary, trusting God to provide.