Power Required for Intimacy

Ecclesiastes 4-6; Psalms. 18; Ephesians 3 

“I pray…He may strengthen you with power…so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith…may have power to grasp…the love of Christ and to know this love…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…”

Ephesians 3:14-21

As Paul prays for the Ephesian church, he prays three times for power: power to believe, power to respond and receive God’s love, and God’s power to act or do in us and through us what He desires. 

Why do we need power to know and experience God’s presence in our lives? 

Paul asks rhetorically in Romans 8:35, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” Satan and his forces are the “who”. They have an agenda to keep God’s people from knowing and experiencing God’s presence in our lives. We must resist in truths about who God is and about whom we are, to walk in intimacy with God. The power of the Spirit is available to God’s family to resist the world, the flesh and the devil (Ephesians 2:1-3), and pursue intimacy with God. It’s worth the fight!

“Lord Jesus, I desire to walk in the fullness of your Spirit’s power this day – so that I can enjoy full intimacy with you!”