Ephesians 1 (Daily Devotional)

Hello and welcome to Living supernaturally, we have this privilege of studying God’s word together and today we are going to look at some of the prayers that were prayed and particularly we are looking at Ephesians chapter 1.

This is Paul praying this prayer over the church at Ephesus and the believers in Ephesus. We are picking up from verse 18, where Paul prays, ‘that you may know what is the hope of His calling, 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 the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places.’ Here are some things that we can pray over our own lives, our family, and friends and those to whom the Lord has placed us as spiritual leaders. Here is something that we can pray, he is praying that you may know the hope of His calling. Do people know that they have a call in God? Have they discovered that wonderful call in God? God has a unique call, invitation, plan and purpose for each and every individual. So, we can pray this, that they may know what are some those things that are hindering them or acting as barriers; is it willful sin, is it ignorance and we can pray and remove those barriers and declare them to be removed and say ‘Lord, let them know the hope of your calling, let them know the call and the hope that comes with the call- the hope of your calling.

The second thing, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints. We can look at this a couple of ways; one is that the glory of the riches of the inheritance that we as believers/ church have, that what we have as inheritance in Christ, that we may know the riches and depth of it, that it is no more just information, but it is something that we walk in. Another way to look at it is the inheritance that God has in us as believers, so we can pray for that. Verse 19 mentions ‘what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us who believe according to the working of His mighty power.’ He is talking about the resurrection power of the Holy Spirit, that raised Jesus from the dead. He is saying here that you may know the exceeding greatness of His power and the word used there is ‘dunamis’ which is supernatural power according to the working of His mighty power, which is the supernatural, creative power of God. He is praying that as well. We don’t have to shy away from the power of God, and we can pray this over our own lives.

Let’s pray, Father we pray that today we may know the hope of your calling, that we may know the exceeding riches of the glory of the inheritance of the saints and that we may know the exceeding greatness of your mighty power that is at work in us. May we know it, experience it, and know these things and let it be part of our lives and I pray that we will pray this over other as well and may they experience this as well. We thank you, in Jesus’s precious name, we pray, Amen.

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