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Ephesians 3:14-21

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14 My response is to get down on my knees before the Father,

14 For this reason I kneel before the Father,

15 this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth.

15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.

16 I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit - not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength -

16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,

17 that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love,

17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,

18 you'll be able to take in with all Christians the extravagant dimensions of Christ's love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights!

18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,

19 Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.

19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

20 God can do anything, you know - far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.

20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,

21 Glory to God in the church! Glory to God in the Messiah, in Jesus! Glory down all the generations! Glory through all millennia! Oh, yes!

21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.