That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of
Him (Ephesians 1:17).
I’m impressed by Paul’s prayers in his letters to the
churches. Right now I’m thinking about his prayer in Ephesians 1. Let’s take a
few minutes to look at how he prays for others and perhaps that can help us in
our own prayer life. We’re beginning in verse 15. The first thing he asks God
the father of grant is “the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of
Him.” How many times have you ever asked this for someone you love or are
praying for? I will be the first to admit that I don’t know what “revelation”
means in this context and so rather than speculate, I’m going to skip over it
for now. But certainly a spirit of wisdom is something we can understand. And
Paul relates this spirit of wisdom to the knowledge of God. So what I’m going
to conclude from this is that it is a good thing to pray for ourselves and
others that our knowledge of God would increase resulting in increased wisdom. One
of the things Paul explicitly asks for in Colossians 1:10 is that the
Colossians would be increasing in their knowledge of God.
Whether
ourselves or others, the only way to increase in the knowledge of God is to
spend time with Him in prayer and meditating on His Word. This is what we are
asking for when we pray that someone would have a spirit of wisdom in the
knowledge of God.
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