A prayer for the church: strength, faith, and knowledge. Sounds basic enough - but there is much more to these traits for followers of Jesus because they don't mean for us what they mean to the rest of the world. They're all initiated, held together, and fulfilled by God - a reality that goes beyond human understanding and yet the comprehension of which is imperative to the Christian life. We need the Holy Spirit in order to truly know and embody this prayer.
Before even creating the world, God had a perfect plan for all things, and now in Jesus those plans have been made known and are being brought to completion! What, then, is our part in that story, and how can we faithfully carry it out? Paul's letter to the Ephesians shows us precisely who we now are in Jesus and how to live out that reality.
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