According to Scripture, believers have been empowered to fulfill their unique purpose in Christ. The apostle Paul writes in Ephesians that God is able to do "exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think," highlighting the vast potential that lies within the Christian life. As noted in Philippians, believers can accomplish all things through Christ who strengthens them, and Ephesians emphasizes that they are created in Christ Jesus for good works. The Psalms also reveal that each person is intricately designed by God, as seen in Psalms 139, and Ephesians encourages believers to have a deeper understanding of their inheritance and calling.
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Now to Him who is able to do so much more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate.
He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus, the Christ, who has been appointed for you. Heaven must take Him in until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God announced long ago through His holy prophets.
And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.