The Apostle Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 3 is a prayer for spiritual wisdom – something we all need. Paul starts on his knees, demonstrating sincere reverence for God. He goes on to acknowledge God’s awesome power in our lives. Paul is asking God to fill the church with his presence, moral excellence, power and love. This is a beautiful, succinct prayer that immediately gets to the heart of every believer’s desire and aspiration. Paul’s prayer is for every believer and is a prayer we can adopt ourselves for our brothers and sisters in Christ.
“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.”
Ephesians 3:14-21 (NASB)
