Ephesians Chapter 3
14.For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15.Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16.That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 17.That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
18.May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19.And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.
20. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
21.Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
What a message! I love these verses! God and love are inseparable. The scriptures don’t just tell us that God loves us, they tell us that He is Love. You can't separate the two.
As I was reading and studying these verses several things occurred to me. Beginning in verse fourteen it says that we are all God's family and share His name. Whether we are still on earth or in heaven we are all one family. I pray that this message will take the church by storm and maybe we can get past these walls that separate us and become one family again. You see in God's family there are no cousins, only brothers and sisters. We all share the same Father and were adopted into His family and became full brothers and sisters to His first born son Jesus.
Verse sixteen says the He will strengthen us with might by His Spirit in the inner man. That's the real part of us. The flesh we wear is just the vehicle we drive while on the earth. The real us is the reborn spirit person you became when you received Jesus and he gave you a new spirit.
As we are strengthened by His Spirit the more of the character of Jesus we have dwelling in us. Then the scriptures go on to say that we can be rooted or grounded in Love. The way to put your roots into God is to put them into love. If every word we said and every act we did was rooted and grounded in the love it would change the world.
If we let the Spirit of God strengthen us we are not just getting stronger. What we are doing is letting Him build a dwelling place for Jesus inside us. A place built in love where He can live comfortably within us. In the Old Testament they built a temple and God moved in. Since the resurrection all things are different. God moves in and then builds you into a temple from the inside out. His Spirit strengthens you so you can contain more of Him.
So what is the purpose of all this building? Verse nineteen says it so we can know His love and be filled with the fullness of God himself. You see the God kind of love can’t be experienced in its fullness from the outside. He loves us so much that He can't stand being that far away from us. Outside is just too far away. He wants to be inside us so we can really be one. To be filled with the fullness of God is to be filled with His love. Once we are full of His love we can't help but share it with others. That is the purpose of this writing. I want you to experience what I have with God. I want Him to dwell in you also.
Verse twenty says the God is able to do exceedingly; abundantly above all we can ask or think according to the power that works within us. I'm sure you are like me and want to have God answer your prayers above what you prayed for. It sounds almost too good to be true that everything we could need is inside us.
So what is this power? It's our born again spirit that has been strengthened by the Holy Spirit and rooted and grounded in Love. So that means that we have our roots in the love of God and are grounded which means that we have our foundation built on love. When we become love on the inside then we will act like love on the outside. When all of our prayers are based on love and rooted and grounded in love then God will answer far above the things that we pray for. When love becomes the purpose of our lives then the power of God will spring forth from the inside of us and change the world.
If we want to be stronger on the outside we have to let Him strengthen us on the inside. Then we will get to the purpose seen in verse twenty one where the glory of Jesus will be in the church.
So I hope you will surrender to His Spirit today and ask Him to strengthen us inside and build a dwelling place for Jesus inside us. A place of love and power. Let's be rooted and grounded in His love and let His love be the purpose for all we say or do. Let's be filled with the fullness of God so we can reach out to the world and tell them how much He loves them.
I hope you are encouraged by these words.
Until next time,
Grow Rich in His Grace,
I love you all,
michael
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