WEDNESDAY May 15, 2024

Strength for the Inner Man

For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man....
Ephesians 3:14-16

God had full possession of Paul’s life. In worship and service to his Lord, Paul bent his humble knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Like Paul, we have to keep an attitude of worship as we serve the Lord with our whole being. When we pray, should we always be on our knees? Whether we stand, sit, walk or lie down, the important thing to know is that God sees the position of the heart, and that is what really matters.

Paul’s first prayer was for the believers’ spiritual knowledge (Ephesians 1:15-23). His second prayer for the Ephesian believers began by praying for them to be strengthened with might in the inner man––for power. He also emphasized the necessity for the love of Jesus Christ. A Christian who has grown to be spiritually mature will exercise God’s love toward others.

It breaks my heart when I see someone who has been in the Lord a long time, and they have not grown in the Lord; they are still childish. You can tell they have not grown in the Word of God. They are still falling into the same sins. Their inner man is so weak. It is essential for a Christian to grow in God’s grace, wisdom, knowledge, and in the love of Christ.

We can strengthen our inner man through the power of the Holy Spirit. He enables us to live the Christian life. If you wait on the Lord in prayer, you will find the strength you need. Isaiah 40:31 informs us: ...those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

Be in constant communion with the Lord in prayer to be strengthened by Him through His Spirit, walking victoriously in His power.

God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength?
~C.H. Spurgeon~

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