“God of our Lord Jesus the Anointed, Father of Glory: I call out to You on behalf of your people. Give them minds ready to receive wisdom and revelation so they will truly know You.” Ephesians 1:17. The Voice.
From the chapter that has been called both the Alps of the Bible and the Grand Canyon of the Bible comes this verse which inspired the first line of the Possibility Prayer:
Mind! Awaken to Possibility!
- Awaken to the possibility that your mind can be receptive to wisdom and revelation! You can know!
- Awaken to the possibility that you can enjoy an intimate relationship with the Father of Glory!
First, what is glory? Does anyone have a definition? We have sung, “Glory to God in the highest” for centuries, but what is glory?
Here is my humble stab at it. If beauty is wholeness (peace) and harmony (joy) and radiance (love) and proportion (balance) and unity (blessing), then glory is lightyears beyond.
In Fr. Thomas Dubay’s fine book, The Evidential Power of Beauty, he writes,
“Divine beauty is so vastly superior to the very best of created splendors that we cannot come close to conceiving it. This is true of every divine perfection. God is not only the fullness of joy. He is the very essence of joy, purest ecstasy, delight without limit, supereminently. So also he is purest loveliness, purest wisdom, purest love, all with no end whatever…the favored word for the divine beauty is glory.”
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Mind! Awaken to Possibility!
Awaken to the possibility that you can be intimate with the Father of Glory!
Marlee Huber ~ For Your Flourishing Life!