Category Archives: Ephesians

Praying the Scriptures -A Prayer on Resurrection Sunday-

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The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection by Eugène Burnard

God of our Lord Jesus Christ, Father of Glory, give me a spirit of wisdom and revelation so that I may fully know Jesus. Enlighten my eyes that I may know what is the hope to which You have called me, what are the riches of this glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of Jesus’ power toward me and my brothers and sisters, toward us who believe, according to the working of the great might that worked in Christ when you, Father, raised Him from the death and seated him at your right hand in heavenly places.

Thank you for your grace, for your rich mercy, and the great love with which you have loved us. Thank you because you made us alive with Christ! Just like today we remember and rejoice that the tomb is empty, that death was conquered, so today we rejoice that we are alive in Him! We are no longer dead, because of the power of the Resurrection, we are alive in Christ! Oh what a Glorious Grace that brings life through death! What a glorious Grace that conquers sins and through the power of the Resurrection gives us victory over the sin that once enslaved us!

Thank you because you have raised us up with Jesus and seated us with him and in Him in heavenly places. I pray that we may be a grateful and obedient people that proclaims a risen Christ and the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us, sinners.

Father help me live as you have taught us, knowing that my sinful nature has been crucified with Christ, that it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. Thank you, because now, by grace I can live a life by faith in Jesus, who loved me and gave himself for me.

I praise you Conquering King!

In Jesus’ name,

Amen

Becky

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A prayer based on Ephesians 1: 15- 23; 2:1-10, and Galatians 2: 20-21

 

 

Praying Ephesians -Ephesians 2-

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“None of us will have any more spiritual understanding than the Spirit gives us; but then he will give us as much as we seek by earnest and believing prayer. To grow in grace, and in knowledge, we must consult both the book and its Divine Author: the one by study, and the other by prayer.”  John Angell James


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Father, this Saturday morning, a day before Resurrection Sunday I come in prayer before you to give you thanks for your glorious Grace displayed on the Cross and the Resurrection.

Father, it is beyond all my comprehension that when I was dead in my trespasses and sins in which I once walked -and loved-, when I was following the course of this world without any objections; when I was a daughter of disobedience, of wrath, living in the passions of my flesh and carrying out the desires of my body and mind. When I thought I was seeking you but in reality I was only looking for the gifts that only You can give, when I was hopeless in this fallen world, Jesus died for me on that cruel cross and after three days rose again from the death conquering sin and death, taking on himslef all my guilt and curse, and giving me Life.

Your are rich in mercy, Oh God, the love with which you have loved your own is greater than the heavens. Always reaching to the sinner, to the hopeless, to the sinner. Lord, thank you for giving us life in Christ. Thank you for the power of the resurrection and for all the kindness that in Christ you have shown to us. Thank you because we are now in Christ, now my life is hidden within Him. What an amazing Grace that saves through faith hopeless sinners like me! Thank you for giving me the gift of faith to believe. Thank you because my salvation does not depend on me, on my will, on my choices “for you,” because I am sure I would have never chosen you. Thank you because you saved me by grace through faith and even now, in  my daily walk,  you sustain me by your grace and the faith you give me to endure the trials  and temptations that each day bring.

Thank you, Father, because the salvation of your children is not by works. Thank you, thank you! Thank you because the only work that was perfect was Jesus’ and it has pleased you to bestow upon me the righteousness that comes from His work.  Thank you because it has pleased you to give me the salvation of my soul, which is the most wonderful gift that one could ever receive!

Help me to live with a humble and grateful heart that loves to obey your Word. Help me to walk with wide open eyes to see the good works which you have prepared beforehand for me to do.  Help me to live giving and walking in Grace.

Lord, help me to walk my Christian life remembering that once I was not saved, that I loved walking in the flesh, that I was not in the Covenant. That I may never forget what it was to be separated from Christ, what it was to live having no hope in this fallen world. I don’t want to forget how dark the pit in which you found me was, so that I may always have a heart full of compassion towards those who are not in your family yet. Help me, Lord to preach the gospel that saves. I pray for ______________ that you may bring them near to you by the blood of Christ. I intercede for __________that may come to know what true peace is.

Father, I come to you through Jesus giving you thanks because I am no longer a stranger, but a fellow citizen with the saints and a member of your household. Thank you because every day you continue to build my life on the foundation of the apostles and prophets; a strong building that stands against all storms because Christ Jesus is the cornerstone. Thank you for your Church, O Lord, help us to grow together in your Truth, encouraging one another not to fall into sin, or in the deceptions of this world, but to walk in the faith, established on your Holy Word. Help us to walk humbly, knowing at all times that we are where we are because your Grace has reached toward us, helpless sinners.

Praying in Jesus’ name whose Name is above all names,

Amen

Becky

Praying Ephesians -Ephesians 1-

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We make the Scripture ours by reading it, studying it, meditating on it, living it, and praying it.

 “Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God.” Jerry Bridges, Trusting God

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Father, thank you because you made a way for me to become yours. Thank you for your immeasurable Grace and its perfect fruit: Peace. Lord, when I see beyond the many physical gifts, all wonderful and undeserving, that it has pleased you to bestow upon me; when I lift my eyes to the heavenly realms and see all the gifts that are beyond all comprehension, I fall on my knees and bless your name. Lord, thank you for calling me, for choosing me in love to be called your own, to be adopted by you, Father. Thank you for each spiritual blessing, for the promises of eternal life, for the miracle of the Cross, for the hope of the resurrection, for that peace that surpasses all understanding. Thank you, O Lord!

Father, I praise your glorious grace with which you have blessed us in the Beloved, in Jesus. I praise you, Father, for Jesus because it is in Him that we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of all our sins, according to the riches of His Grace. O what a wonderful, glorious Grace!

As I see the cross and the blood of the Lamb, I see your wisdom and insight making known to us, your children, the mystery of your will: to have for yourself one Church united in Jesus. How I long for that day!

Thank you, Father, because it is in Jesus, In Him alone, that we have obtained our precious inheritance. Only in Him can we possess the gift of Eternal Life. Only in Him, when we heard the word of Truth, the gospel of our salvation that pierced our soul, and revived our dried bones, only when you made us believe in Him, is that we were sealed with the Holy Spirit. This is just glorious, Lord! That no one can rob that inheritance from us! That the salvation of our souls is assured by the seal of the Holy Spirit and not by our own feeble efforts is wonderful! Thank you, Lord! I praise your glorious Grace!

For this reason, for the faith that you have given me, I now come before you to pray for my children. Give me a heart that is inclined to intercede with all kinds of prayers and supplications for my sons and daughters all day, every day. That I may not cease to fall on my knees on their behalf, that I may not fall in the sin of worrying and being anxious for them and their future instead of trusting that their life,  all of it is under your sovereign, loving hand. Give me the faith that trusts that your will for them is that they may know You and your perfect will. Father, I pray for the children that you have given me and for their future spouses. I pray that you, Gracious God, may give them a spirit of wisdom and of revelation so that they may know You. Lord, that they may seek you in the days of their youth and grow in the wisdom that is only found in the Scriptures. Father, draw them to your Word, keep them from the evil one, from all false teachers, from all deceptions, from their own sinful desires. Father, enlighten their eyes that they may know what is the hope to which you have called them. I pray that you will deliver them from all the false hopes and all the false promises that the gods of this age offer. Deliver them from setting their eyes, their efforts, and their heart in the riches that will perish, that are vain and leave men and women empty. Strengthen them so that they may be able to stand firm in the days of trial, in the many times in which they’ll have to face fierce temptations. Call them by name, O Lord, show them what are the riches of the glorious inheritance that we have in You; let them see with the eyes of their soul what is the immeasurable greatness of your power toward us who believe in You. Open their eyes that they might understand the power of the cross and the resurrection and live a life that will bring glory to your name.

Father, draw us to you, to Jesus. Apart from you we can do nothing, we can go nowhere, we are lost, and fruitless. Help us today to live by Grace, with our eyes fixed on the cross and the power of the resurrection. Help us today to build your Kingdom and build up for ourselves treasures in Heaven.

I pray trusting that you hear me because of your steadfast love.
In Jesus’ perfect name,

Amen.

Becky