Praying with Paul

Ephesians 3:20-21​

Dear Father, transcendent in knowledge and wisdom,
Grant that I may know the love of Christ, a love which surpasses knowledge, that I may be filled with the fullness which is yours.
Now to you, my God, who by the power at work within your people are able to do far more abundantly than all I can ask or even imagine - to you be glory in the congregation of your holy people and in Christ Jesus to all generations, for ever and ever. Amen.
In the name of Jesus...

 

Ephesians 3:14-19​

Dear Father, transcendent in power and fullness,
I bow my knees before you, Father, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.
According to the riches of your glory strengthen me with your might in my innermost being, that Christ may dwell in my heart through the trust I have in him.
Root me and ground me in love so that I may have the power to comprehend - along with all your holy people - what is the breadth and length and height and depth of...

 

Ephesians 3:1-13​

Dear Father,
Thank you for all the prayers Paul prayed for the Christians whom he brought to you in his day and for those who came to you through their preaching.
Thank you for the impact that Paul has had on so many great churchmen through the ages.
Thank you for the pure waters that I, even I, have drunk from the well of his teaching.
Thank you, Father, for making provision to spread the Good News about Jesus over the whole earth, to every nation and...

 

Ephesians 3:9-12​

Dear Father, who gives wisdom so generously,
How thankful I am that the congregation of your people has become the channel through which your multi-faceted and many-splendored wisdom will be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places. It thrills me to know that it was your purpose eternally to realize this in Christ Jesus my Lord.
Thank you that through him we have confident and bold access to you.
Help me, help all of your people, not...

 

Ephesians 3:1-8​

Dear Father,
Thank you for the great apostle Paul and for his life of magnificent service. I know that it was through your graciousness that he was called. It demonstrated the working of your great power to turn a human life from rebellion to obedience.
Thank you for such a man, who could count himself as the very least of all your people. Thank you for such humility. He boasted not of himself but of you! My Father, let me imitate him completely in this!
Thank...

 

Ephesians 2:17-22​

Dear Father, friend of the far and the near,
I am so thankful that Christ came and preached peace to those who were far off and to those who were near, so that we both can have access to you in the one Spirit, that we can enjoy peace together. It is so wonderful that we who are not Jews no longer have to be strangers and foreigners.
How good of you, Father, that we now can be citizens with the saints, that we can be members of your household, Christ's church...

 

Ephesians 2:14-16​

Dear Father, reconciler of humanity,
Thank you for sending Jesus to break down the dividing wall of hostility between Jew and non-Jew. By the way he lived and the way he died - in his flesh - he rendered ineffective the law of commandments given as "decrees."
He lived a life unto you that went beyond obeying commands. He yielded himself in truly loving obedience from the heart.
Thank you that he did this to create in himself one new man, one new humanity...

 

Ephesians 2:8-10​

Dear Father, perfecter of humanity,
My God, even my believing was not something I was clever enough to do. It was your gift to me, not from my effort, lest I should boast of it.
In truth I am your workmanship, your creation, your starting and your finishing. You made me over in Christ Jesus so that I could perform the good works which you prepared beforehand for me to do, that I might walk in them.
Thank you, my awesome God and loving Father, for bringing me...

 

Ephesians 2:4-5​

Dear Father, ruler of heaven and earth,
When you raised up Christ, you raised me out of my dead state as well. You set me on a throne of honor with Christ in the heavenly places.
What you did showed the immeasurable riches of your grace even to me - just as you showed your kindness to those called first - through Christ!
Thank you for being so very, very gracious to me! Salvation by grace just by trusting in you!
In the name of Jesus and by his authority I...

 

Ephesians 2:1-3​

Dear Father, King of the Ages,
Thank you for the new life you have infused into my being. I once was dead because of the misdeeds and sins in which I walked, following the course of this world, following the commander-in-chief of evil, the spirit that now energizes all who disobey.
Among these lost people - and as a lost person - I once lived in the passions of my flesh. I followed the desires of my body and the passing whims of my mind. I was by nature a doer...