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

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

"We bow our knees to the Glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom our whole family of true believers in heaven and earth is named, asking He would grant us, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power and might through His Spirit in the inner person, that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith; that we, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all those God has made holy, what is the width and length and depth and height — to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that we may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen," Eph 3:14-20.

 

[Articles]

We join you in bowing our knees to the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and we make this beautiful prayer from Eph 3:14-20 our own together with you.

We love how you have prayed the very heart of the Apostle Paul for the church, that we would be strengthened with power and might through His Spirit in the inner person. We agree with you that this is our deepest need, not merely outward strength but inward renewal day by day. As it is written in 2 Cor 4:16, though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day, and in Rom 8:11 that the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in us and will give life to our mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in us.

We pray together that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith, that we being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height, and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge. Eph 3:17-19. We ask the Lord to make this love not just a doctrine we affirm but a reality we experience, that we would know in our hearts how wide His mercy reaches, how long His faithfulness endures, how deep His grace goes to redeem us, and how high His purposes lift us to be seated with Christ. We are thankful that this love surpasses knowledge, yet He invites us to know it more and more.

We pray that we may be filled with all the fullness of God, Eph 3:19, filled to overflowing with His Holy Spirit, with His character and presence, so that our lives bear fruit and our hearts overflow with worship and obedience. We remember the promise in John 14:23 that if we love Him we will keep His word and the Father and the Son will come and make their home with us, and in Gal 2:20 that Christ lives in us and the life we now live we live by faith in the Son of God.

We rest together in the assurance that now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever, Amen. Eph 3:20-21. We trust that He hears this prayer offered in the name of Jesus, for it is only through Jesus that we have access to the Father, and we thank Him that He is able to do far more than we can even imagine as we abide in Him.

We encourage you to continue to pray this passage daily, to linger in it, to let the Spirit search your heart and strengthen you in your inner person, to keep your heart rooted in love through faith and obedience. May the Lord grant you a fresh comprehension of His love and a fresh filling of His presence today.

 

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Thank you for sharing this prayer from your heart. We hear a deep longing to know Jesus more closely and to experience the Spirit's strength in your inner life, and we are grateful to stand with you in that.

What you are asking is at the very center of what God loves to do, to make His home in our hearts through faith and to make His love more real to us day by day. That kind of rootedness grows over time as we stay close to Him, not all at once, and He is patient as He forms His character in us. We think of how the Spirit works in such balance, bringing power for daily living, steady truth to guide us, and gentle fruit like love, peace and patience that others can see and feel.

One simple way to keep leaning into this is to keep praying this same prayer slowly before the Father each day this week, pausing to listen as well as to ask, and to share it with a trusted fellow believer who can pray it with you.

Father, we bow with our friend before You and ask that You strengthen them by Your Spirit within, that Christ would be at home in their heart, and that they would know more of Your wide and deep love. Fill them with Yourself and receive all glory in their life. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

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Amen. Father please do this for them, us and all in need. Thank you and praise you. In Jesus name. Amen

 

[Spurgeon]

It is a most scriptural and blessed petition you have laid before the throne, and we do bow our knees with you to the Glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.

Your prayer asks for the very thing which the soul most needs, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man. We are such weak things that we cannot glorify Christ without the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. We may pant and long and pray to honor our Master, but we shall only dishonor Him unless the Holy Spirit holds us up and strengthens us. Only when the Holy Spirit comes is there any life and force and power. Therefore we cry mightily unto God with you, that He would grant you according to the riches of His glory this inward strength.

And the great purpose of that strength is that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. This is the work of the Holy Spirit, for the Holy Spirit glorifies Christ. He does not magnify outward rites, but Christ. Our sin puts a veil between us and Christ, and the Holy Spirit comes and takes the veil away from our heart and then we see Christ. So we pray that the Spirit will shed light upon a word of Christ to you, till it shines like a fixed star, and that you may see Him dwelling within by faith, not as a guest but as the Lord of the house.

Then, being rooted and grounded in love, you shall be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height, and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge. It is very sweet when the Holy Spirit shows us the love of Christ, how intensely He loves us. No man can measure it by his own reason, for it passes knowledge, yet the Spirit can make the heart to feel its dimensions and to be ravished by it.

And we pray that you may be filled with all the fullness of God, and filled to overflowing. This is not a work of the flesh, but the indwelling and outflowing of the Holy Spirit. The presence of Jesus was of inestimable value to His disciples, yet it was not such an advantage as the indwelling of the Holy Spirit who was given when Christ was glorified. Oh that you may live near to Christ and give yourself up fully to His divine anointing, praying in the Holy Spirit, in His power, with love and faith, and not grieving Him by unbelief or coldness of heart.

Now unto Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages. May He answer this prayer for you far beyond your asking, and make you to abound in the knowledge and enjoyment of Christ, to His praise forever. Amen.