Pray To The Father

February 14, 2018

Pray To The Father

Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong.

Ephesians 3:17

Read: Ephesians 3:14-21

I believe Paul’s prayer here is rivaled only by the Lord’s Prayer as perhaps the greatest prayer in the Bible. Before you read the prayer again, take a moment to imagine the Apostle Paul in a small, cramped, dimly-lit jail cell. All of his personal concerns that could have been at the top of his prayer list are cast aside so that he can pray for his friends in Ephesus. And how he prayed!

“(1) (God) will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit; (2) Christ will make his home in your hearts; (3) Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong; (4) And may you have the power to understand how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is; (5) May you experience the love of Christ; (6) you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God” (Ephesians 3:16-19 (Numbers 1 through 6 added by me)).

Which one of these six petitions appeals the most to your soul? Write that petition on a slip of paper and keep it with you for the next week. Pray the petition often and allow God to do a work in your life by bringing you into a full and complete understanding of the truth of that petition in your life.

My Takeaway: I believe at the end of the week you will join your voice with Paul in his beautiful doxology: “Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen” (Ephesians 3:20-21).

Sē’lah

<><  <><  <><  <><

(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com. The BLOG is also available on Amazon Kindle, by subscription.

Copyright © 2018 by Alex M. Knight

Publications by Alex M. Knight:

·        Seeking the Life in Christ, Meditations on the New Testament and Psalms has been published and is now available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

·        The second edition of  First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

·        Meditations on The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ has been released as an e-book on Amazon Kindle.

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188.