praying biblical prayers - starting with Pauls prayer for the Ephesians

For now I am just going to copy, paste and BOLD the text from Ephesians 1 & 2

(I am tired have a stuffy head on cold medicine.)

PRAYING...

I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know Him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the 1hope to which He has called you, the 2riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and 3His incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.

(Ephesians 1: 16-23 NIV)

THANKING GOD FOR...

because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages He might show the incomparable 2riches of his grace, expressed in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.

(Ephesians 2 :4-9 NIV)

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Lord I do pray that you would grant to each of us the Spirit bringing us wisdom and revelation so that we may truly know you and love you well. That we may more fully understand our unshakable hope, and that the power that raised Christ Jesus from the dead, would be recognized in our live and would raise us out of our slavery to death/sin, bringing us more and more into a life of Light, Love, and into the Eternal Riches of His Grace.

AMEN