Ephesians 3:18-19 And I pray that you and all God's holy people will have the power to understand the greatness of Christ's love—how wide, how long, how high, and how deep that love is. 19 Christ's love is greater than anyone can ever know, but I pray that you will be able to know that love. Then you can be filled with everything God has for you. (ERV)
Today's read through the Bible passage was in Ephesians 3 which happens to be one of my favorite prayers in the New Testament. Paul is praying for the church and praying for us. It is a model prayer that we can pray for others.
Paul prays for "inner power", not something that is of ourselves, it is God's power living in and through us. When you read through verse 16-19 you will notice that he asks that believers would be strengthened, rooted and filled. We need His strength every day, strength to stand and withstand, strength to endure and to overcome. We need to be rooted and grounded in His Word, His love, grace and peace. And we need to be filled, as my HCSB study Bible states "via the work of the three persons of the Trinity, Spirit, Christ and God the Father.
How Deep is the Love of Christ - Wes King
Incomparable kindness to less than the least
To the broken, the battered, and weak
To all who are hungry there comes a call
To be filled with the fullness of God
It's beyond all you can see
Farther than you'd believe
It's a mystery
My prayer for you is that you would know
To the broken, the battered, and weak
To all who are hungry there comes a call
To be filled with the fullness of God
It's beyond all you can see
Farther than you'd believe
It's a mystery
My prayer for you is that you would know
CHORUS:
How wide, and how long, and how high, how deep is the love
How deep is the love of Christ
How wide, and how long, and how high, how deep is the love
How deep is the love of Christ
The width of two arms outstretched on a tree
The length of the road to Calvary
The height of the crown on a cruel cross
The depth of the pain is the cost
All for you, all for me
All for love did He bleed
All to set us free
The length of the road to Calvary
The height of the crown on a cruel cross
The depth of the pain is the cost
All for you, all for me
All for love did He bleed
All to set us free
My prayer for you is that you would know
How deep is the love of Christ.
In Christ,
Mike
Mike
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Eph 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace NIV
Eph 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace NIV
Ephesians 3:14-19 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
Prayer for Spiritual Power
Prayer for Spiritual Power
14 For this reason I kneel before the Father 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named. 16 I pray that He may grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power in the inner man through His Spirit, 17 and that the Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God's love, 19 and to know the Messiah's love that surpasses knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
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