AN INSTRUMENT OF YOUR PEACE The Apostle Paul was writing to the church at Ephesus, a group of Gentile believers. The Jews, rather than remembering that through them all nations were to be blessed, shunned any nation, people, or person…

PRODUCT OF THE POET God provides everything His children need. Even the faith needed to trust in Jesus for salvation is a gracious gift from our Father. We did not perform some mighty feat or do an abundance of good…

GRIPPED BY GRACE Ephesians 2:8-9 (BSB) For it is by grace5485 you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast. G5485 Grace –…

SAVED BY GRACE

SPIRITUALLY DEAD MADE ALIVE IN CHRIST Ephesians 2:1 (BSB) And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, SUSIE: Paul was still addressing the saints, the believers, the saved. God has made us alive. We were spiritually dead because of…

TRULY ALIVE I was dead. No, I (Susie) didn’t have an out of body experience when I had my heart catheterization yesterday (Sept. 2000). I’m talking about before I accepted God’s gift of salvation through Jesus. I was dead in…

POWERFUL PRAYER As I (Susie) write this (September 2000), I feel powerless. I feel like my cell phone…I need to be plugged in and recharged. I’m exhausted, have no energy, and am scheduled for an angiogram the day after tomorrow.…

REDEEMED, RICH, AND RECALIBRATED Ephesians 1:15-16 (BSB) For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,…

IN HIM Lavished – G4502 pĕrissĕuō – to superabound (in quantity or quality), be in excess, be superfluous; also (trans.) to cause to superabound or excel: – (make, more) abound, (have, have more) abundance, (be more) abundant, be the better,…

MARVELOUS MYSTERY—CHRIST IN YOU! (Glorious Hope) Ephesians 1:7 (BSB) In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace . . . Laced throughout Paul’s letter to the Ephesians is the…