Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

Ephesians 3, 14 through 21 is the second prayer that Paul

prays for the Church of Ephesus and I'll do the same thing that we did with the first one

in Ephesians 1 and just read it and then paraphrase it by praying it over you, over us.

So here are the exact words Paul prayed over the Ephesian Christians.

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father from whom every family in heaven and on earth

is named, that according to the riches of his glory, he may grant you to be strengthened with

power through his spirit in your inner being so that Christ made dwell in your hearts through

faith that you being rooted and grounded in love may have strength to comprehend with all the

saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth and to know the love of Christ that

surpasses knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to

do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think according to the power at work within us,

to him be glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever,

amen. Yes, Lord, we pray that I pray that specifically over every single person

listen to this podcast right now, many who listen to this podcast daily regularly, I bow

my knees before you, Father. You are the author of every single person on the earth, the creator

of every single man, woman, child in the world. You are the creator of all, the sovereign owner of it all

and you have all glory. And so I pray that according to the riches of your glory, you would grant

the people who are listening to this right now to be strengthened with power through your spirit

in their inner being. Oh, God, that they would know they have your spirit in them and they would

have strength and power and everything they need by the power of your spirit in them. Lord,

Jesus, you would dwell in their hearts through faith that they would believe in you, they would trust

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