Pastor's Letter September 2013

Dear Friends
 
I have been spending lots of time over these past weeks in Paul’s Letter to the church in Ephesus.  It is such an inspiring and encouraging letter as Paul opens the readers up to their part in God’s plans, and the incredible grace of God to all believers.  I love his prayer for the Ephesian Church in chapter one:
 
I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. 
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.  I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.
 
As I read these words written almost 2000 years ago I imagine that Paul is actually writing them to us today in Liberty Church, that his prayers are that we today, living in 21 Century Scotland, would know the hope to which God has called us, the riches of his glorious inheritance and his incomparably great power that is available for us.  As we move into a new season as a Church my prayer is that we (including me) would grasp the power, the love, the riches of our God and would understand more fully who we are in Christ and our glorious destiny in him.  I pray that more and more we would be built together into “a dwelling where God lives by His Spirit”^{(Eph 2:22)} and that together we would “be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God”^{(Eph 3:19)}.
 
With much love and blessing
 
Jon