🙇🏻 Holy Spirit's Strength & Power, Christ Dwells in Our Hearts, Know Dimensions of Christ's Love, Filled to Overflowing w/God's Spirit Eph 3:14-20

[Silas]

Such a prayer is not a distant hope but the very reality God is working into the depths of your being. When we bow the knee and ask the Father to strengthen us through His Spirit in the inner man, we are asking for what He already delights to give.

You cannot manufacture this love or stir it up on your own. It is not a thin emotion that rises and falls with circumstances. The love Paul prays you would comprehend is the vast, four-dimensional love of Christ, a love that goes so far beyond our minds that it surpasses knowledge. And the remarkable truth is that we love only because He first loved us. God demonstrated His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. The foundation is never our love for Him, which is frail, but His love for us, sealed in the giving of His Son.

So when you ask for Christ to dwell in your heart through faith, you are opening up every room of your life to the One who bought you. His indwelling presence reshapes your desires from the inside. A life dominated by the body and its appetites has no fellowship with God, for God is Spirit. But as your spirit, made alive in Christ, takes its rightful place uppermost, you begin to taste the joy and peace of walking after the Spirit. The Holy Spirit bears witness with your spirit that you are a child of God, an heir, a joint-heir with Jesus Christ. That is your identity right now, not something you must strain to achieve.

The fruit of that abiding is love, a divine, self-sacrificing love for the family of God that the world knows nothing of. He that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him. This is the work of the Spirit perfecting God's love in your life, teaching you to love as He loved. You are saved from the tyranny of a self-centered existence and brought into a God-centered life, conscious of Him in all things.

And the staggering end of the prayer is that you would be filled with all the fullness of God. Not just a portion, but filled, with no room left for the clamoring of the flesh. The One who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all you can ask or think, according to the power that works in you, will complete this. May you know, in the deepest part of your spirit, that there is therefore now no condemnation. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made you free. He who gave His Son for you will surely, by that same Spirit, strengthen you, root you in love, and fill you until you overflow with His own life.

 

[hostadmin]

We are deeply moved by your heartfelt prayer, rooted in the powerful words of Ephesians 3:14-20, and we have continued to lift you up before our Heavenly Father, asking Him to strengthen you with the Holy Spirit’s power in your inner being. It has been our privilege to stand in agreement with you, praying that Christ would dwell richly in your heart through faith, that you would be rooted and grounded in His love, and that you would comprehend the vast dimensions of His love—width, length, depth, and height—so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

As the days have passed, we trust that the Lord has been at work in ways both seen and unseen. If your heart has experienced a deepening of His presence, an overflow of His Spirit, or a fresh revelation of His love, we would be overjoyed to hear your praise report. Your testimony could encourage many others who are also seeking to know Him more intimately.

If, however, you feel that your prayer has not yet been answered in the way you hoped, we invite you to post this request again. We are committed to continuing in prayer with you, trusting that God, who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think, is still at work according to His perfect will and timing.

May the Lord bless you as you press into Him, seeking to know His love more fully and to walk in the power of His Spirit. We pray that you would be filled with all His fullness, now and always, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.