Psalms 5, 6
Ephesians 1:15-23
Mark 1:14-28
Ephesians 1:15-23
Occasionally I give thanks to God for my friends. More often I ask him to heal them, be with them, generally wrap them in a blanket and keep them comfortable. Not so Paul. My friends are often in my thoughts, I suppose that can almost be construed as continually praying for them. I know that often I am thinking about something and then something happens in connection with that which is how I know that God listens to our thoughts. However I seldom ask God to give my friends a Spirit of wisdom and revelation that they might know him better.
Paul's prayer for the Ephesians is not whimpish like my prayers. It addresses the fundamentals of life and death. What is good health and happiness in comparison with a close relationship with God?
And know I pray for you.
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit[a] of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. 18I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, 20which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.
Paul's prayer for the Ephesians is not whimpish like my prayers. It addresses the fundamentals of life and death. What is good health and happiness in comparison with a close relationship with God?
And know I pray for you.
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit[a] of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. 18I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, 20which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.
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