“If God is able to do far more than we can ask or imagine, why do we keep praying such small prayers?”
Sermon Summary
Most of our prayers stay safely inside what we can imagine: a job, a healed body, a rent check. Somewhere along the way we decided anything bigger was out of reach.
As Paul closes the first half of Ephesians, he doesn’t hand us a to-do list. He breaks into a doxology, a word of praise about God’s glory. He piles up Greek superlatives, God is able to do “above all things, over and out of abundantly,” because ordinary grammar can’t contain his power. That same resurrection power is at work in us. Paul wants it displayed in the church, the one place that can declare Christ’s glory in a way even the heavens cannot.
We can know God is able in two ways. Objectively, creation, the incarnation, the resurrection, and the ascension stand outside us as proof. Subjectively, we have lived it. We were dead in sin and made alive, enslaved and redeemed, sealed with the Spirit, and gathered into a church where every dividing wall of hostility has come down. We can’t fully explain any of it, and yet we know it is true.
Join us as we learn to pray incomprehensible prayers. We’ll pray for hardened hearts, for those in bondage, for our own stubborn weaknesses, and for God’s beauty and greatness to be made known through First Baptist Church Benbrook in ways only he can accomplish. You’ll leave with a bigger God and a bolder prayer life.
Scripture: Ephesians 3:20–21
Date: November 1, 2026
Preacher: Todd Pylant
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