Flowing pipes

We are pipes! Yes, let's go with the analogy... Pipes for God's love, grace, power and presence to flow through us to the world around us.

But pipes get blocked. The stuff in our life, big and little, can suffocate our capacity to let God pour his amazing goodness through us. Our mind may go straight to 'bad behaviour' here and the 'big' sins. But it's not quite as simple as that. Actually, stuff like stress, fear, unwillingness for whatever reason... add to the gunk that fills us up and, as a consequence, tightens the diameter of our tube even more. It's like God's saying: 'I have all of this, that I want to pour into you,' and we shrug in response: 'Yes, but I have all this stuff and... I just don't have the space'.

Life clogs us up. But it's just so worthwhile for us to figure out how to stop life-stuff limiting what we can offer our Father. Ephesians 3:14-21 is about figuring that out. It's actually the best guide-prayer ever! It's about asking for more space - more space in our heart, our life, our 'pipe' to let God absolutely flood us, and then the world around us, with himself.



So what now? Grab a Christian friend and take time to kneel before God. Take turns reading Ephesians 3:14-21 out loud over each other, as a prayer. Pray for clean and unclogged pipes.





— SCRIPTURE —

'He can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine.' Ephesians 3:20 GWT
— SOULFOOD —

Matt 5:9, Rom 12:17-21, Jam 3:17-18