More Power to You!

Paul, in trying to describe the tremendous power we have in God, used every word for power that he could think of. It\’s no wonder that he labels all of this power as mega power at the beginning of verse 19 In vs. 19. he uses four different words to enlarge on this theme of God\’s power.

Dunamis – \” his incomparably great power\” From which we derive our word dynamic or dynamite. It refers to inherent power.

Energeia – \” That power is like the working\” (energeia) From which we get energy. And this is the operative power.

Kratos – \”the working of His mighty (Kratos) This is sometime translated dominion and means just that. It refers to ultimate power.

Ischus – \”His mighty power (Ischus)\” This is his endowed power

So this power, which is ours, by the way, is an unbelievable, almost indescribable power. The closest English transliteration we can arrive at from what Paul writes here is that in knowing God, we have Megadynamic, energizing, dominion giving, super power endowed upon us because of our faith in and knowledge of Christ.

And his prayer was that we may know what we have. Not what we may someday have, but what we can embrace today.

Go forth in mighty power today and everyday!