Ephesians 3:14-19 English Standard Version

Prayer for Spiritual Strength

14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength 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, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Now that the church age has begun, the real work begins. Each and every born again Christian has the same responsibility to God the Father regardless of age, experience, gender or nationality. That responsibility is to know Christ.

Up until the time of our becoming born again and the quickening of our spirit, everything we knew about Christ was book knowledge, theoretical, a view from the outside trying desperately to glimpse into His life lived out as a man in His earthly ministry.

Now we get to know Christ intimately in greater detail than any book can possibly tell us. He is present in us by the power of the Holy Spirit. He is our Lord ruling and reigning in our hearts that belongs to Him.

He is no longer theoretical, He is present and real. 

How can we expect to show Christ if we do not know Christ?

How can we expect to love like Christ if we do not know the love of Christ?

How can we expect to know the mind of Christ if we are full of self-talk?

How can we become filled with the fullness of God when we are so full of ourselves?

The work of the cross has brought us to Christ.

Now the real work begins.