Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Encouragement for Daily Living from the Book of Ephesians

A brief overview of the Book of Ephesians - read through this overview and improve your faith walk and relationship with God. His Word is straight-forward in telling us how we should and shouldn't live in order to receive His blessings and the presence of the Holy Spirit actively working in our lives.

-We should be holy and without blame before Him in love
-He works all things according to the counsel of His will
-We are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise
-He will give to us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him
-He made us alive while we were still dead in trespasses and sin
-God is rich in mercy because of His great love with which He loved us
-By grace we are saved through faith
-We are His workmanship
-He Himself is our Peace!
-In Him we have boldness and access with confidence
-He is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we ask or think
-Walk worthy of the calling with which you were called
-Endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace
-We should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting
-Be renewed in the spirit of your mind
-Put away lying; speak truth
-Do not let the sun go down on your anger
-Give no place to the Devil
-Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth.
-Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God
-Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and evil speaking be put away from you
-Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you
-Be imitators of God
-Walk in love
-Walk as children of light
-Have no fellowship with the unfruitful words of darkness, but rather expose them
-Do not be unwise, but UNDERSTAND what the WILL of the Lord is
-Do not be drunk with wine
-Give thanks for all things, continually
-Wives, submit to your husbands
-Husbands, love your wives just as Christ also loved the church
-Children, obey your parents. Honor your mother and father that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.
-Fathers, bring your children up in the training and admonition of the Lord
-Put on the whole armor of God that you might be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil
-We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness
-Having done all, stand
-Pray always with all prayers and supplication in the Spirit

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