“Household of God – A Household Prayer”- Ephesians 1:15-23
Spiritual Amnesia – forgetting what God has done and what He has said
Spiritual Myopia (Nearsightedness) – seeing only what is near (circumstances) and fail to keep our eyes on Jesus and His promises.
Mark 4:35
Mark 4:39-40
Theme for 2013: Household of God – understanding that we are the Household of God and what it means to be the Household of God.
“Every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places”: chosen, adopted, redeemed, forgiven, included, given an inheritance, indwelt by the Holy Spirit, sealed with the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 1:15-23
“…that you may know…” – understand the force & meaning of, perceive the ramifications. “Do you know what this means?”
“…the hope to which He has called you…” – “joyful & confident expectation”
Philippians 1:6
“…the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints…”
I Corinthians 2:9
“…the immeasurable greatness of His power toward us who believe…”
May “the eyes of [our] hearts [be] enlightened, that [we] may know what is the hope to which He has called [us], what are the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, & what is the immeasurable greatness of His power toward us who believe…!”
We are the Household of God!