I love the book of Ephesians... and the prayer found in chapter 3 is one of my favorite Biblical prayers. As I was reading The Perfect Love by Ruth Myers this morning I read that lovely prayer from The Living Bible (TLB). Remember The Living Bible? My mother had one. It was shaped like a hardback dictionary, but covered with a dark green padded leathery material on the outside. She loved that Bible and read it daily.
TLB is a transliteration... like The Message. Both are fine to read, but should not be your main Bible. Those who wrote these versions took the main thoughts in the Bible and put them down in common day language. I love to compare verses in various Bibles and The Message is one I look at often, but again.. not as my main source. You need a solid translation and there are many to choose from.... my personal favorites are the New American Standard Bible and the English Standard Version. I read the New Internation Version also as it is what my church uses.
Back to this morning's reading... as I said, I love this prayer and I really love the way it reads in TLB. I hope you like it too and will pray this for yourselves and others.
Eph. 3:17-21 TLB
"May your roots go down deep into the soil of God's marvelous love; and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God's children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high His love really is, and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so at last you will be filled up with God Himself. Now glory be to God who by His mighty power at work within us is able to do more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of -- infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts or hopes."
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