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Treasure Christ

Consider Ephesians 3:14-21. I turned to that passage today to pray for my daughter and son-in-law as well as dear friends, both of whom are experiencing heartbreak over their sons.  As I read it over and over again, it came to mean more to me than ever before. ... 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 may 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 Ephesians 3:14-19 It always bothered me that the prayer was for power through the Spirit so that Christ may dwell in hearts through faith. It seemed backwards to me