"...the eyes of your understanding being enlightened..."I want to understand. A friend of mine was killed last week. It hurts, especially because the person who killed her was someone close to her (her husband), and also a person that I've known. It's been a year or two since I've spoken to either of them. Could something I had done change today? I don't know. I just don't understand.Here in the greek, the word for understanding is "dianoia," which means: deep thought, properly the faculty (mind or its disposition). The situation that happened here is really screwed up, and I feel like I have nothing to give the situation. [Enter the prayer room] I feel that all [...]

...the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him..."I'm hungry. Not like food hungry, I'm God hungry. I believe that faith in Christ is a supernatural curiousity. It keeps you coming back for more, and no matter how much you've experienced, you always want to experience more. This is good and bad. It can be bad if you cling tightly to your past experiences...if your thirst is the experience. If this is the case you'll start to judge every experience through the limited scope of your past experience. But this thirst for more can be excellent if your thirst is to experience Jesus and not the [...]

"...may give you the spirit of wisdom..." I want wisdom. Sure, I want to be smart, but I just want wisdom for the fullness of life. I mean, what matters? What doesn't matter? Solomon (The wisest King EVER) once said, "Vanity, it (life) is all vanity. A chase after the wind." (Not vanity in the sense of conceit, vanity in the sense of "emptiness") While meditating on this passage today I was hit by the next part of the verse, but not in the way you'd expect. I want wisdom, but the thing that stuck in my mind was the part of the phrase "may give." I'm still not sure exactly why, but I'm starting to [...]

"...the Father of glory..." I began studying the Apostolic Prayer found in Ephesians 1:17-19 in the prayer room today. It starts out, "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory..." Well, I stopped on "the Father of glory," which was the first clue that God was wanting to let this prayer become a part of my heart. The chord that was struck was, of course, the otherness of God, but also the "glory." Now in the greek the word for glory used here is: "doxa" (dox'-ah), and is a wider application of the concept meaning: dignity, glory(-ious), praise, honor, worship. Maybe that's where we get "Doxology." Usually when I hear "glory," I [...]