Ephesians 3:14-21 NIV
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Ephesians 3:14-15 NIV
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.
>> Paul’s Prayer for the Ephesians (and our prayer for each other):
1) Inner
Ephesians 3:16 NIV
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
2) Christ’s
Ephesians 3:17 NIV
…so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
Greek : katoikeo = “to be settled down into a house”
John 14:23 NIV
Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.”
3) To be
in love
Ephesians 3:17 NIV
…And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love…
Greek : agape = “love as it relates to God”
John 15:13
“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
4) To
the love of Christ
Ephesians 3:18 NIV
[That you] may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ…
5) To
the love of Christ
Ephesians 3:19 NIV
…and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—
6) To be filled with the
of God
Ephesians 3:19 NIV
…that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Greek : pleroo = “to fill to the full”
7) To give all
to the Father
Ephesians 3:20-21 NIV
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
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