Hi Brian!

The word for this week is "wish". One of the new Hillsong Young and Free songs is called "Everything I Could Want". There is a line in the song that says this: "People wishing what they’ve got away. We need a change". Unbelievers and 'unbelieving' believers spend time 'wishing' for things to change or to get better. The Word of God has a different choice! The word "wish" is found in these three Scriptures:

Romans 9:3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: KJV

2 Corinthians 13:9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection. KJV

3 John 2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospers. KJV

All of these are the Greek word "euchomai". Strong's Concordance says: to pray to God. Vine's Expository Dictionary says: the indication is that prayer is involved. The Theological Dictionary says: to pray, ask, beseech, prayer, petitionary prayer, invocation. Instead of 'wishing' for something that we need or desire, we find out what the Word says about our situation, and then petition for it! Ask for it! To invoke, according to the dictionary definition means to: use law or rule to achieve something. So we speak the Word over and into our situation, fully expecting God to do for us what He did in Mark 16:20:

And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord was working with them and confirming the word by the signs that followed.]

It certainly seems that God is doing this quicker and more powerfully than ever before in these last months! I expect even more in the days ahead! These are exciting times to be alive, even in the midst of strange things going on! Here is that song mentioned above!

Love and Shalom From the Swoveys!