Daily Devotional

November 21st 2025

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FRIDAY

I ask [God] to strengthen you by [God’s] Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite Him in. And I ask [God] that with both feet planted firmly on love, you’ll be able to take in, with all followers of Jesus, the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love.—Ephesians 3:16, 17 (MSG)

To have spiritual power, we must regularly reacquaint ourselves with the spiritual discipline of prayer. Great things happen when we pray.

Paul’s prayer focus is on our inner being. All of us are compound beings. We’re composed of a body, a mind and a spirit. The body is our physical nature, our outer appearance. The mind is our thinking, intelligence, and personality. But it is the spirit aspect of us that is eternal; it is the spirit aspect of us that is created in God’s image. This is our inner being; it is that part of us that makes us unique from all of creation.

Our inner being is who we are. While our bodies waste away daily, our inner being lasts forever (II Corinthians 4:16). It’s not wrong to be concerned with our bodies, but we must remember that there is a part of us that determines how well we really are, and it’s not the outer person.

Paul says, in verse 17, that Jesus will come to live in our hearts because you believe in Him.” “Live” here literally means, “to settle down and feel at home.” Certainly, the Spirit of Christ abides in the hearts of all believers. But Jesus wants more than just residence in our hearts; He wants authority. Paul is praying for a deeper experience between Christ and His people. He yearns for Christ to feel at home in our hearts; for us to have more than a surface relationship with our Savior, but to have an ever-deepening fellowship.

Finally, Paul prayed that we would come to know the extent of God’s love for us: “Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:18, 19).”

As disciples of Jesus Christ, there is nothing more important that we can know than the love of God that is in Christ, Jesus. We need to be rooted and supported by His love; we need to share His love with those who do not know Him. When we pray, we come to know how great is His love toward us.

Prayer: Lord, Your love is greater than anything we can comprehend. We are most thankful that we can have relationship with You through Your indwelling Holy Spirit and through prayer. As we go today, may we continue to grow in our inner being, that we may be all that You have purposed us to be. In the name of our Christ, we pray. Amen.

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