May Christ through faith [actually] make His permanent home in my heart!
That I may be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love,
That I may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all
the Gods devoted people, the experience of that love what is the breadth
and length and height and depth [of it],
That I may really come to know practically, through experience for myself,
the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without
experience]; that I may be filled [through all my being] unto all the fullness
of God.
May I have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body
wholly filled and flooded with God Himself!
Now to Him Who is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly,
far over and above all that I [dare] ask or think infinitely beyond my
highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams,
To Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations
forever and ever. Amen.
But shut your mind to controversy. The student of the Lord must be
patient and forbearing and willing to preserve the bond of peace.
He must correct others with courtesy and gentleness, in the hope that God
may grant that they will repent and come to know the Truth [that they will
perceive and recognize and become accurately acquainted with and
acknowledge it], And that they may come to their senses [and] escape out
of the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him, in order to now
do His [Gods] will.
Be vessels set apart and useful for honorable and noble purposes,
consecrated and profitable to the Master, fit and ready for any good work.