MORNING DEVOTION

 

MORNING PRAYER

That the God of our Lord Jesus

Christ, the Father of glory, may

give unto you the spirit of wisdom

and revelation in the knowledge of

him: The eyes of your

understanding being enlightened;

that ye may know what is the hope

of his calling, and what the riches

of the glory of his inheritance in

the saints, And what is the

exceeding greatness of his power

to us-ward who believe, according

to the working of his mighty

power, Which he wrought in

Christ, when he raised him from

the dead, and set him at his own

right hand in the heavenly places,

From: Ephesians 1:17-20

INSPIRATION

The Holy Spirit is here called the

Spirit of Wisdom, using a

grammatical construction that in

the Greek indicates the Spirit is the

"source of" or "giver of" wisdom.

In 2 Timothy 3:15, we learn that

the Scriptures are "able to make

you wise unto salvation, " When

God opens our understanding to

see the truth of the Gospel, he

enlightens us and imparts to us

wisdom to know and act on the

truth. He then gives us hope of

future glory and assures us of that

hope by "the working of his

mighty power" in us. That is the

very power that raised up Jesus

from the dead.

PRAYER

Open our minds more and more,

we pray, to understand your

truths. Let the "resurrection

power" of God that raised Jesus

Christ's body from the grave raise

up our spirits to live more and

more a "resurrection life" of

obedience to you. Amen.