Boldly and Confidently into God’s Presence!

Ecclesiastes 4; Ecclesiastes 5; Ecclesiastes 6; Psalm 18; Ephesians 3
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Ephesians 3

12 Because of Christ and our faith in him, we can now come boldly and confidently into God’s presence. …

14 When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, 15 the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. 16 I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. 17 Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. 18 And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. 19 May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

20 Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. 21 Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen.

Observation

Do you ever feel defeated? Do you ever feel like things are not going to change? I believe that the Evil one would want us to believe that what we are doing doesn’t really matter and that we are not really making a difference. But it does matter and we are making a difference if we are trusting in Christ on a daily basis.

Paul says in verses 10 and 11 that God is using his church to display his wisdom to all the unseen rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. “God’s purpose in all this was to use the church to display his wisdom in its rich variety to all the unseen rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. 11 This was his eternal plan, which he carried out through Christ Jesus our Lord.”

So there is a battle going on all around us in the heavenly places as we do church and those unseen rulers and authorities in heavenly places don’t like for us to win a soul. They don’t like for us to advance God’s kingdom, but we are. It may be only one person at a time, and it may be slow but we are advancing.

Application

Ephesians 3:14-20 is my prayer for you today. It is a prayer for my staff today. It is a prayer for all my brothers and sisters in Christ today.

Prayer

When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong.

And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen.

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