Love Fulfilled Ministry

making mention of you in my prayers that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, gives you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in knowing him, to the extent the eyes of your hearts are enlightened so you know the hope of your calling , what are the riches of his glory, the inheritance among the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of his power for us who believe...(Ephesians 1:16-18) There is a growing in Christ, of knowing Christ, more and more. " Now, grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ ..."(2 Peter 3:18) The Church grows "in the knowledge of Him into maturity, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ."(Ephesians 4:12-14) Paul counts all things as loss through the surpassing worth of knowing Him , regarding all else as dung in order to gain Christ.(Philippians 3:8-10) In our leading verse, Paul prays that our Father (the Father of glory which we will see, it is about glory) gives us a spirit of wi...

  My Father is glorified in this; that you bear much fruit and become my disciples ...John 15:8-11 Bearing fruit is the purpose of the word of God being sown and falling on good soil, as Jesus said, it produces fruit, like as hundredfold, sixty, thirty. *  Jesus also said if we abide in the Vine we will bear fruit, apart from him we can do nothing. He also said not everyone who claims to know him and who says he is Lord and does powerful works in his name will enter the kingdom of heaven. Good works in and of themselves are not the fruit that glorifies God, " my Father is glorified in this; that you bear much fruit and become my disciples ..." * that you bear much fruit and become my disciples..." * There are two types of disciples of Jesus, the difference between the two is one bears fruit. There are the chosen in Christ, " you did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed to go and bear fruit and that your fruit remains so that my Father gives you whatever you ...

to the extent of this we offer pray at all times so that our God esteems you worthy of calling and in power brings to fulfillment all goodness, good pleasure, and work of faith in order that the name of the Lord Jesus be glorified in you and you in Him according to grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. * Paul is offering prayer so that God esteems us worthy to call us, and if he does he will bring to fulfillment all according to His good pleasure, and the work of faith and power in us so that Jesus is glorfied in us and we in Him. God chose us in Jesus, according to the good pleasure of His will, before he created the world to be holy, in his presense in love. * How is He accomplishing such a goal? According to that he purpose in Christ, that according to His good pleasure; he chose us and called us and is working out all goodness (through the work of faith and grace and his power) to whom he esteems worthy of calling (to those chosen, loved, blessed, favored in the Belove...