Daily Devotion With Pastor Dan – August 6th, 2020
(Ephesians 3:14-21)…..For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height – to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
In Paul’s prayer for the Ephesian believers, he reminds them that God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that they can ask or think of God. Just pause for a moment and think what that “exceeding abundantly” means, not only for them, but also for us. Think of the words, “the exceeding great and precious promises.” Think of the “the exceeding greatness of His power towards us who believe, according to the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ when He raised Him from the dead.” Think of the grace of our Lord as exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus, so that where sin abounded grace abounded more exceedingly.
As we worship and adore, the call comes to believe in this Almighty God, who is working in our hearts, according to His mighty power, able and willing to fulfill every one of His exceedingly great and precious promises, and, where sin abounded, to prove that grace abounds more exceedingly. Paul began his great prayer, “I bow my knees to the Father.” He ends it by bringing us to our knees, to give glory to Him as able to fulfill every promise, to reveal Christ dwelling in our hearts, and keep us in that life of love which leads to being filled with all the fulness of God.
Andrew Murray
You and me as Christians, need to bow in deep adoration, giving glory to our God, until our heart learns to believe. Faith in the Almighty God, and the exceeding abundance of His grace and power, will teach us that the abiding indwelling of Christ in the heart is the secret of His abiding presence.