SCRIPTURE
Eph. 3:14-21 –
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, THAT HE WOULD GRANT YOU, ACCORDING TO THE RICHES OF HIS GLORY, TO BE STRENGTHENED WITH POWER THROUGH HIS SPIRIT IN THE INNER MAN, SO THAT CHRIST MAY DWELL IN YOUR HEARTS THROUGH FAITH; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge,
THAT YOU MAY BE FILLED UP TO ALL THE FULLNESS OF GOD.
Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.
HYMN – CHRIST LIVETH IN ME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrrpeX0Z_sw
Lyrics:
Once far from God and dead in sin, No light my heart could see; But in God’s Word the light I found, Now Christ liveth in me.
Refrain: Christ liveth in me, Christ liveth in me, Oh! what a salvation this, That Christ liveth in me.
As rays of light from yonder sun The flow’rs of earth set free, So life and light and love came forth From Christ living in me.
As lives the flow’r within the seed, As in the cone the tree, So, praise the God of truth and grace, His Spirit dwelleth in me.
With longing all my heart is filled, That like Him I may be, As on the wondrous thought I dwell That Christ liveth in me.
-- Daniel W. Whittle, 1891
HYMN – SINCE JESUS CAME INTO MY HEART
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HF8fvYAOU4
Lyrics:
What a wonderful change in my life has been wrought Since Jesus came into my heart; I have light in my soul for which long I have sought, Since Jesus came into my heart.
Refrain: Since Jesus came into my heart, Since Jesus came into my heart; Floods of joy o’er my soul like the sea billows roll, Since Jesus came into my heart.
I have ceased from my wand’ring and going astray, Since Jesus came into my heart; And my sins which were many are all washed away, Since Jesus came into my heart.
I’m possessed of a hope that is steadfast and sure, Since Jesus came into my heart; And no dark clouds of doubt now my pathway obscure, Since Jesus came into my heart.
There’s a light in the valley of death now for me, Since Jesus came into my heart; And the gates of the City beyond I can see, Since Jesus came into my heart.
I shall go there to dwell in that City I know, Since Jesus came into my heart; And I’m happy, so happy as onward I go, Since Jesus came into my heart.
-- Rufus H. McDaniel, 1914
_________________ Jade
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