14.4 Paul prayed “THAT YOU MAY KNOW…”
(Eph 1:16-20)
16 ...do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; THAT YOU MAY KNOW what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places...
The above prayer is one of the two most powerful prayers in the New Covenant. The prayer itself is fully packed with revelations. Kenneth Hagin used to pray this prayer over himself regularly. In the midst of praying, the anointing of teaching came upon him like a mantle through the Spirit of wisdom and revelation.
I encourage you to pray this prayer over yourself. Personalize it with your own name. Now, let me explain more on this verse.
In the New Covenant, Jesus completed the work on the cross. All righteousness, blessings, power, love, grace, etc flows from the cross. Many Christians talk and act as if the work was not completed. They then try to complete the work through their prayer, worship, and spiritual activities. This is not possible. We have to know for sure if the work was completed.
Paul did not pray for the believer to get anything. He didn’t pray for them to receive blessings. He prayed that they may know what they have – based on what Jesus had done. Specifically, he prayed that we may know:
1) The hope of His calling (who we are in Christ)
2) The riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints (what we have in Christ)
3) The exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe (what Christ can accomplish through us by His power)
This means that the people had a great need to know and to understand. It is a life time quest for the believer to discover and experience the fullness of the cross. But it doesn’t come naturally. We need the help of the Holy Spirit. He is now our teacher. He came to reveal the finished work of Jesus to us. We need the Holy Spirit’s wisdom to receive the revelation of the cross.
The more we know, the more we believe, and the more we experience the reality of it. Today, you don’t have to earn it; you just need to know it.
16 ...do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; THAT YOU MAY KNOW what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places...
The above prayer is one of the two most powerful prayers in the New Covenant. The prayer itself is fully packed with revelations. Kenneth Hagin used to pray this prayer over himself regularly. In the midst of praying, the anointing of teaching came upon him like a mantle through the Spirit of wisdom and revelation.
I encourage you to pray this prayer over yourself. Personalize it with your own name. Now, let me explain more on this verse.
In the New Covenant, Jesus completed the work on the cross. All righteousness, blessings, power, love, grace, etc flows from the cross. Many Christians talk and act as if the work was not completed. They then try to complete the work through their prayer, worship, and spiritual activities. This is not possible. We have to know for sure if the work was completed.
Paul did not pray for the believer to get anything. He didn’t pray for them to receive blessings. He prayed that they may know what they have – based on what Jesus had done. Specifically, he prayed that we may know:
1) The hope of His calling (who we are in Christ)
2) The riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints (what we have in Christ)
3) The exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe (what Christ can accomplish through us by His power)
This means that the people had a great need to know and to understand. It is a life time quest for the believer to discover and experience the fullness of the cross. But it doesn’t come naturally. We need the help of the Holy Spirit. He is now our teacher. He came to reveal the finished work of Jesus to us. We need the Holy Spirit’s wisdom to receive the revelation of the cross.
The more we know, the more we believe, and the more we experience the reality of it. Today, you don’t have to earn it; you just need to know it.
posted by Joshua Lye @ 12:49 AM
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