Ephesians
3:20 “Now unto Him that is able
to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the
power that works in us.”
I read that this amazing
assurance of God’s unlimited ability to answer our prayers is related to a
unique “power [Greek dunamis]
that works in us.” It is the root word of our English words dynamite, dynamo
and dynamic. Paul had used the same word twice before in this same epistle,
speaking of “the exceeding greatness of
His power to us-ward who believe” and “the
gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power”
(Ephesians
1:19; 3:7). “Effectual working”
in the original is one word, energeia,
from which we get our English word “energy.”
Such power working in us is
actually nothing less than the presence of God Himself. Its very first
occurrence is in the model prayer by Jesus in Matthew 6:13 “For thine is the kingdom, and the power,
and the glory, for ever”. Romans 1:16 tells us that it is this
“power of God unto salvation”
that is received when we first believe on Christ through the gospel. It has
been so ever since the fulfillment of Christ’s promise when He told His
disciples in Acts 1:8, that “you shall receive power, after that the Holy
Ghost is come upon you”.
This remarkable and dynamic
power of God is thus imparted to us and energized in us by the Holy Spirit.
Because of this, we can be filled “with
all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power
of the Holy Ghost”. Furthermore, He thereby provides impregnable security
for time and eternity, for as 1 Peter 1:5 says, we “are
kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in
the last time”.
With such a resource of
unlimited spiritual power working in us, God is able indeed to accomplish exceedingly
abundantly more than we can ever imagine, as He works in and through those
yielded to His holy word, will, and way.
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