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Day 26: Source of Power

April 10, 2020

I’m working (typing) against the clock this morning.  My phone is about to die. My computer is dead.  Our power has been out since 5:30 yesterday evening.  Storms took out two trees on our street.  Thankfully no one was hurt except the poor old trees.  It was a long, hot night.  Even still, I flipped the switch in the bathroom this morning expecting the light to come on.  I turned on the faucet expecting water to come out.  (Around here, no power, no water well pump...)  But when I walked up to the Keurig and started to make coffee things got real!  So what did I do? Opened the blinds in the bathroom. (Light)  Used Purell on my hands.  (Good bye germs!). Boiled water on my (gas) stove and thanked God for instant coffee.  A girl’s “gotta make do”.  Quarantine with a power outage and no water “ain’t for wimps”.  Thankfully our most important source of power is always available.  God is always there.  He’s completely dependable and is the actual source of all power.  No need to worry about an outage.  And that’s a good thing because I’m going to need a lot of help today.  Today’s verse is long but it promises so much.  Ephesians 3:16-20:  16 “That out of his glorious, unlimited resources he will give you the mighty inner strengthening of his Holy Spirit. 17 And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts, living within you as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love; 18-19 and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high his love really is; and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so at last you will be filled up with God himself. 20 Now glory be to God, who by his mighty power at work within us is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of—infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes.”  Stay strong! Smile and be joyful!

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