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Morning Bliss: A Prayer From prison_

Focal Scripture : Eph. 1:18-19;  the eyes✭ of your understanding being enlightened, so that you may know what is the hope✭ of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance✭ in the saints, 19 📚and what is the exceeding greatness of his power✭ toward us who believe, in accordance with the working of his mighty power

                   

                 Read: Eph. 1:15-23

When I was a boy, I occasionally wrote letters to my friends who lived in another side of the town. They were handwritten, brief, and usually began the same way: “How are you? I am fine.”

Letter writing in Paul’s day also had an opening formula that generally included a greeting to identify the letter’s recipient and a blessing.

In Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, this blessing takes the form of a prayer for spiritual enlightenment (vv. 17–18). This was not a prayer for salvation.

Paul’s readers already possessed faith in Jesus Christ and a love for God’s people (v. 15).

Instead, Paul prayed that the Ephesians would grow in their understanding.
Specifically, he asked God to grant his readers enlightenment, using the vivid image of a heart with eyes wide open (v. 18).

This kind of understanding is the work of the Holy Spirit, whom the apostle calls “the Spirit of wisdom and revelation” (v. 17).

The kind of understanding Paul requests goes beyond mere intellectual knowledge of certain truths.

This kind of knowledge is experiential as well as intellectual. It is an understanding of a hope and a power that come from God (vv. 18–19).

How much power are we talking about? According to verse 20 it is the same power that the Father exerted when He raised Jesus Christ from the dead! The spiritual power that is granted to us in the Christian life is enough to subdue all things to Christ (v. 22).

We can’t help noticing the contrast between Paul’s circumstances and the kind of power he describes.

Given his arrest and confinement, we might have expected the apostle to see himself as a victim. Instead, Paul describes total victory.

>> You may not be able to grasp everything there is to know about Jesus Christ. But you can understand more.

As we continue our study, ask God to open the eyes of your heart so you can know and experience the power of Christ.



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