Actively Weaving a Masterpiece 4-27-2025
April 27, 2025
Actively Weaving a Masterpiece
Pastor Kevin Redding
4-27-2025
FAITH BUILDING THOUGHT: When we faithfully pray for others, we join God in His will and His working in their lives
Ephesians 1:15-25 “For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.”
1. For
Ephesians 1:15 “For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints”
• Ephesians 1:1-14
• Romans 12:3-5, 10-18
• I Corinthians 12:12-14
• Ephesians 4:1-6
• Colossians 3:8-16
2. About
Ephesians 1:16a, 17-19a “I do not cease to give thanks for you … that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe …”
• Thanksgiving for them
- Romans 1:8
- Philippians 1:3-5
- I Thessalonians 1:2-4
- 2 Timothy 1:3
• The Spirit of wisdom
- Colossians 1:9-14
• Revelation in the knowledge of Him
• Eyes of the heart enlightened
• Knowing the hope He’s given us
- Romans 5:1-5
- Romans 8:18-25
- Romans 15:4-7, 13
- I Corinthians 15:1-28
• Riches of His inheritance
- Philippians 3:12-16, 20-21
• Greatness of His Power towards us
3.
Ephesians 1:16b “… remembering you in my prayers”
• As part of your normal prayer times
• Whenever God brings people to mind
4.
Ephesians 1:19b “ … according to the working of his great might”
• God uses our prayers to align our hearts to His will
• God uses our prayers to reveal to us and remind us that He is at work
- Romans 8:26-28
• God uses our prayers to reveal to us His great might
5.
Ephesians 1:20-23 “that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.”
• Resurrection power is at work
- Romans 8:9-11
• Authority of Christ is at work
• Eternal rule, authority, power, and dominion is at work
- Philippians 2:9-11
• Creation’s submission to Christ is at work
• The Church’s prominence is on display
- Matthew 16:13-18
- Ephesians 5:23-32