Prayer
“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” Eph 3:14–19.
There is a robust prayer in the middle of the letter to the Ephesians. It almost seems out of place, as if it should be at the end of the letter. But this is a prayer that we need now, not later. This prayer asks that the Ephesians be given power through the gift of God’s Spirit, that Christ would live in and through the lives of the people, that the people would understand what God was doing and wanted to do, that they would personally know how deeply God loved them, and that God’s very life would fill them to the full. This is the kind of prayer that we need someone to pray for us. This is the kind of prayer that we need to pray for others.
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