Ephesians 4~ Praying Scripture

Please read Ephesians 4.

Meditate on verse 5.

But speaking the truth in love,

we are to grow up in all aspects into Him

who is the head, even Christ.

Paul wanted the Christians at Ephesus to grow up.  He had lived in Ephesus for two years sharing the Gospel of Christ and teaching and training the new believers (Acts 19).  Eight to ten years had passed, and Paul wrote to the Ephesians from a prison in Rome.  These followers of Jesus should have been more mature in Christ.  Why hadn’t they matured?  They walked just as the non-Christians walked in the futility of their mind.  They were darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life God purposed for them because of the hardness of their hearts.  They were callous because they gave themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness (Ephesians 4:17-19).

You can hear Paul’s next words scream off the page.

“You did not learn Christ in this way!”

Is God saying the same thing to you?  “Grow up!  The way you are living is not how you learned Jesus.”

Have you heard Jesus?  Have you been taught Jesus?  Truth is in Jesus.  Ask God to help you live the Truth today.

Pray Ephesians 4:22-24 over yourself and those for whom you are standing guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“Lord, in reference to _________ and my former manner of life,

help us lay aside the old self,

which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,

 and let us be renewed in the spirit of our mind. 

Help us put on the new self,

which in the likeness of You, God,

has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

In Your Name, Jesus~”