A prayer for the Church.

As I approach the completion of vol.2 in my "Getting to know you" series of books (Foundations of the Faith, for anyone interested!), I am already thinking of future volume!   I suspect that vol.3 will be People Jesus met and, having watched a video (that I endeavoured, unsuccessfully as you can see, to add below), vol.4 might well be Great prayers in the Bible.

These are wonderful words from the great apostle to the Gentiles, in his letter to the believers in the ancient city of Ephesus.  Certainly one of the great prayers to be found in the written Word of God.

"For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom His whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name.  I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge — that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

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, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever!" (Eph. 3:14-21; NIV).