The first Ephesians prayer (V) The exceeding greatness of His power toward us

I have prayed for people to be healed, and the Lord has healed them, and I have prayed for others to be healed, and as far as I know nothing has happened. What I do know, is that that no matter where we are in terms of tapping into the exceeding greatness of His power, none of us has arrived. And so each and every one of us needs a spirit of revelation of the said exceeding greatness of his power “toward us.” In context, in addition to praying for a revelation of hope and inheritance, Paul prays for a revelation of “the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come” (Ephesians 1:19-21).

The prepositions “eis” and “kata” translated here as “towards” and “according,” are awkward to translate. Thayer says of “eis” that it denotes entrance into, so the exceeding greatness of His power to which we have access. And of “kata” he says it denotes relation or proportion. Putting this together, Paul is praying for a revelation of the overwhelming immensity and greatness of the resurrection power that has been made available to, and to which those “who believe” have access. At the risk of being overly repetitive, I want to say a revelation of this comes with the grace, the wherewithal to fully believe and to tap into these incredible resources. If you’re not there yet, you need a revelation of it. I know I do! No matter how far we have come, there is always more, exceedingly greatly more. Jesus told us that we will do greater things because He was going to the Father (John 14:12). Note the “will do” in the quote “whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these” (verse 12). Not 'might do,' 'will do.' Well who 'will do?' “Whoever believes in Me!”

And in a way, this explains why we wrestle so much, it's lac of faith. We have more faith, many times in the Devil to keep right on doing what he does best, which is to steal, kill and destroy. And we can become dazzled by his power, but he is a liar (John 10:10a; 8:44), and the only power he has, is the power we give him. God and the devil are not equal and opposite powers, it’s great big God, little biddy devil. These verses tell us it is not just 'above all powers and principalities' and it’s not just some powers and principalities, is it is FAR above ALL of them. And what we need to do is to fix our spiritual eyes not on what is seen in the natural, but on the unseen (2 Corinthians 4:18). And in order to do this, we need a revelation of the grace that is available us to tap into the exceeding greatness of His power to which we have already been granted access (2 Peter 1:4).

So Father I pray this morning for myself and all those reading this, that You would indeed give us a spirit of revelation of these things, revelation  to not only know them, but to walk in them in Jesus Name Amen