That Prayer’s Prelude

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To shine out, and to show, and thus convey

his great intention from “back in the day”

when all of this world came out ‘coz he Said

(by God! He Saw what was Good, in his head);

The point of this all was humanity

that’s thriving, right with  world, & carefully

still looking over it, knowing it well

(not “just to use it” which brings out more hell),

to help appear the reign of the heavens,

make it quite clear, infecting as leaven’s

small influence does one grain at a time

(his spirit’s presence starts whistling and rhyme).

Humanity anointed by the God -

was called Jesus, the Christ - led Way for lot

to enter room of throne, and gladly now

fall on knees, or then raised up we bow,

or run to our “Papa”, father, it’s he

who loves us, wants that all  his children be

so open up, to learn from his leading:

to speak as he did, maybe with pleading,

and all of this must be after looking

& list’ning, hearing, then knowing the thing.

The Way of Christ makes open quite a lot.

To follow him we gladly throw out rot,

and clarify who’s boss (because it's true),

and enter love’s great loss in  death’s dark hue,

to find that all that’s timed has been renewed

in joy, dramatic song, we come to YOU…

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Notes:

Ephesians 3:9-12, 14-15 (NLT plus Greek “explained” word by word when verse number is link-ified) 

⁹I was chosen to explain to everyone this mysterious plan that God, the Creator of all things, had kept secret from the beginning. ¹⁰God’s purpose in all this was to use the church to display his wisdom in its rich variety to all the unseen rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. ¹¹This was his eternal plan, which he carried out through Christ Jesus our Lord. ¹²Because of Christ and our faith in him, we can now come boldly and confidently into God’s presence. 

¹⁴When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, ¹⁵the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. (Ephesians 3:9-12, 14-15 NLT)

Ephesians 3:16-19 NLT: I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

+  (Eph 3: 9-19 Greek, NTIME, GNT, NRSV, NLT)

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