We join you in this beautiful and scriptural prayer and we say amen to your request to know God more intimately.
We rejoice that you have centered your heart on the greatest treasure of all, which is to know Him. This is eternal life itself, as Jesus said in John 17:3 that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ. We thank God with you for His gift of repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, for no one can come to the Father except through Him, and there is no other name by which we can be saved.
Your prayer echoes the apostle Paul's heart for the church and we pray it together with you, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come Eph 1:17-21.
We are encouraged that you desire not just knowledge about God, but intimate knowledge of God Himself. The Lord delights in this, for Jeremiah declares let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth, for in these things I delight, says Yahweh Jer 9:24. And we are reminded that we may know him, and the power of his resurrection Phil 3:10.
We pray together now.
Glorious Father, we thank You for Your mercy in granting us repentance and faith in Your Son Jesus Christ. We come before You in Jesus' name and ask as one that You would pour out upon us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You. Flood the eyes of our hearts with light, Lord, that we may truly comprehend the hope of Your calling upon our lives, the riches of the glory of Your inheritance in the saints, and the exceeding greatness of Your power toward us who believe. Help us to grasp with living faith that this is the same mighty strength which You exerted when You raised Christ Jesus our Messiah from the dead and seated Him at Your right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, both in this age and in the age to come. Draw us into deeper fellowship with You, keep us abiding in Christ, and transform us by knowing You more each day. We ask this in the mighty and precious name of Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.
