November 15 2025

Saturday November 15

“Strengthened with Might”

Ephesians 3:14-19

14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 from 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 through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height-- 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Welcome to Pastor's Chat. Today we're looking at Ephesians 3:14-19. These are powerful verses reminding us of the Apostle Paul’s prayer for the church at Ephesus. In this prayer, there are four request, but they're not to be looked at as insulated individual petitions because these four requests are like four parts to a telescope. One request leads into the next one and so on. He prays that the inner man might have spiritual strength, which will, in turn, lead to a deeper experience with Christ. This deeper experience will enable him to “apprehend” (to get a hold) of God's great love, which will result in being “filled unto the fullness of God”. So, then, Paul is praying for strength, for depth in our spiritual life, for apprehension, and for fullness.

That's what we'll be talking about these next couple days because this prayer, this petition is so vitally important to our spiritual growth and our spiritual well-being and our spiritual standing as we fight and stand against the wiles of the evil one (Ephesians 6). Please read the petition in these six verses carefully. Oh my friend, it's almost unimaginable that we have a prayer here that tells us that on earth we can be filled with the fullness of God. Jesus Christ himself was the exact image of God (Hebrews 1:3). He was the fullness of God manifest on earth (Colossians 1:19). Now we as His believers, as His light, as His witnesses, can be filled with the same fullness of God to make a big difference in the world in which we live.

Oh, if only we as believers would learn this truth and pray for this great anointing, this great strengthening of the Holy Spirit to make us all that we should be for the glory of God. The lack of power and weakness of the churches today is that we have no idea as far as most believers are concerned what we have in Christ Jesus and the fullness of God and the riches of His glory that's available to us. And that through this prayer that we read about here we can experience this power and strength in our lives

The first thing Paul prays for is “to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man”. The presence of the Holy Spirit in our life is evidence of our salvation. Romans 8:9 says: “But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His”. Scripture is very clear that at the moment of our salvation, the Holy Spirit comes to indwell us. But the power of the Holy Spirit is enablement for Christian living. It's this power that Paul desires for these believers here at Ephesus.

In Acts 1:8, Jesus had said to the disciples, you shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you. We are told in Luke 4:1, 14, that Jesus performed His ministry on earth in the power of the Holy Spirit. This power of the Holy Spirit is the only resource that we have for Christian living today. When you read through the book of Acts, over and again you see the importance of the Holy Spirit in the life of the church. There are at least some fifty-nine references to the Holy Spirit in the book of Acts. This is one fourth of all the references found in the New Testament on the Holy Spirit.

Someone said, that if God took the Holy Spirit out of the church today, He wouldn't even be missed because we would just go on working as usual. How sad that this is so true. We can’t imagine the wisdom that we would have, the strength that we would, the witness that we would in the world, if we would receive this great truth and allow the Holy Spirit to fill us. living and working in us, and through us.

Today, how real is the Holy Spirit to you? Are you praying to “be strengthened with might through His Spirit” to face the challenges of living the Christian life in today’s godless culture? Are you praying this for others too?

God bless!