Strength and Power in the Spirit

Strength and Power in the Spirit

Posted by Chad Langdon on Sunday, June 25, 2017

Ephesians 3:14-21

NLT

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.

NRSV

14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 
15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. 
16 I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit, 
17and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love. 
18 I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 
19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 
20 Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, 
21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.