Wonder - Awestruck Wonder

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 I pray - I wait - and I wonder.

I wonder at the knowledge that God hears me

that He loves me and

that He cares about what concerns me.

I wonder how He will answer my prayer

Not if  He will answer,

but how he will answer...and when.

I wonder how He will take the perplexities in my life

and turn them around for my good.

I wonder how He will use these circumstances to mold

me into the image of Christ.

I wonder at the hardships He allows so that I may grow

and comfort others with the comfort

He has given me

through the storms.

I wonder at the blessings He pours out

Unearned, undeserved

undeniably an outpouring of grace.

I look up...in wonder

awestruck wonder

and gaze into the face of

perfect love.

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"Who among the gods is like you, Lord?

Who is like you— majestic in holiness,

awesome in glory, working wonders?"

Exodus 15:11

(Copyright© 2013 Jan Christiansen. All rights reserved.)

I asked the Lord...

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I ask the Father in his great glory to give you the power to be strong inwardly through his Spirit. I pray that Christ will live in your hearts by faith and that your life will be strong in love and be built on love. And I pray that you and all God's holy people will have the power to understand the greatness of Christ's love—how wide and how long and how high and how deep that love is. Christ's love is greater than anyone can ever know, but I pray that you will be able to know that love. Then you can be filled with the fullness of God.

Ephesians 3:16-19 NCV





(Copyright© 2012 Jan Christiansen. All rights reserved.)