that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, (Ephesians 3:16)
God I feel so weak and selfish on my own - so I ask for our help even to remember you even to want to seek you. I trust in your power to strengthen me!
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:17-19 ESV)
Christ dwell in me on my heart and pour out from there to flood my life, my routines, my action as, my words, my thoughts and my desires would be life giving and satisfying in you Christ! But as this prayer says let me not focus on the outward too fast or depend on my own strength. It's amazing how I much I need you God even to have the beginning of roots and understanding to fathom the immeasurable riches and love of Christ. Let Christ and the knowledge of Christs abundance fill me that I need nothing else!
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Help me to even grasp and conceive and imagine how immense and all encompassing is the love of Christ. This first step is so hard to even imagine it. But then this prayer invites us to not just imagine it but to intimately know this love so that it would fill us to the measure of and the fullness of God. How crazy is that? We can be filled with the fullness of God!? All of this is out of Christ love, wow! And yet we can't even understand or imagine the significance of Christs love without Gods help. What a grace it is to even be able to come to believe and then as believers by Gods power to know even more the immensity of Christs love.
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