“For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height – to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
Ephesians 3 : 14-19 (New King James Version)
A lot of us love using this part of the verse ‘Yes God will grant us according to the riches of His glory’ . Unfortunately some of us tend to always use this in the context of materialistic blessings only.
This is such an amazing prayer. God will grant us according to the riches of His glory ! His glory ! We can’t even begin to imagine that . We read in Isaiah 6 : 1-3 , “In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one cried to another and said: “ Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!”” Now check this out… according to the riches of HIS GLORY , that God will grant us to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man !!
Wow ! What an amazing prayer ! According to the riches of His glory that we be strengthened with MIGHT through HIS SPIRIT in the inner man. And it does not stop just there. As we keep reading we see that it goes on to say that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith , that we may be rooted and grounded in love. Wow ! And then that we may understand that we cannot understand the love of Christ as it passes knowledge and that we may be filled with the fullness of God ! All this according to the riches of His glory !!
This needs to be our prayer, for ourselves and for one another. It’s all about Him and His Spirit working in us. Some of us love doing things for God but don’t take the time to withdraw to one-to-one time with God in prayer. I being no exception of this. And this is what the Lord taught me today It’s not about us working for God, it’s about us letting God work in us. That makes all the difference between things done on our own strength and things done by His Spirit.
God Bless
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