“…making mention of you in my prayers: that…the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power” (Eph 1:16-19).
Don’t you love Paul’s run-on sentences? It’s like he’s caught in a river of blessing, and every turn brings a new vista into view. In the heart of this prayer is certain hope in the God of Promise. Without it, these things become a mere fairy tale.
When James Prince Lee, first “Bishop of Manchester,” was buried, it was not with the usual pomp in a cathedral. His grave lies in a small country churchyard in the village of Heaton Mersey. A simple marker records his vital statistics, but at the head of the stone is one Greek word, salpisei, translated in our English Bible as “the trumpet shall sound.” May Paul’s prayer be answered in your life today, believer