Grasp What You Have!

Many of my thoughts lately have revolved around the prayers Paul prayed for the churches he loved. Prayers like these:

"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 might know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and His incomparably great power for us who believe." (Ephesians 1:17-19a)

"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." (Ephesians 3:16-19)

"And this is my prayer; that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ-to the glory and praise of God." (Philippians 1:9-11)

"For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding." (Colossians 1:9)

Paul's prayers for those he loved were always that they would grasp what they already had! God had done it all. He had given it all. All they had to do was believe it and walk in it. Paul continues in Colossians 1:10-12 to explain why he is praying these things for his friends, "And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work , growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light."

My friends, we are exactly the same. We need nothing more than what we already have. we simply need to believe what God has said, what He has already given and promised. When we are able to truly believe, and true belief always results in action that backs it up, our lives will reflect the goodness, blessing, power, endurance, patience, faithfulness and holiness of God. We will look more and more like Him every day. And the world will want what we have. Because we HAVE every spiritual blessing in Christ-EVERYTHING that we need for life and godliness. Grasp it! Believe it! Walk in it! It is yours.