This is the 3rd blog on Ephesians 1:17-23, what an absolute blessing it was! If you haven’t read the other, find them! It’s beautifully taken apart and I believe revealed!

Beloved, if Paul’s prayer has already undone our ideas of knowing God and belonging to Him, this next line should completely recalibrate how we understand power. In Ephesians 1 Paul prays that we would know the immeasurable greatness of His power toward us who believe. Not power that might come one day. Not power reserved for spiritual elites. Power that is already directed toward us.

This is where theology becomes confrontational. Because many believers believe in God’s power but do not live in its reality. They affirm it doctrinally while experiencing very little of it practically. And Paul knows why. Power must be perceived before it can be experienced.

Notice again what Paul does not pray. He does not ask God to release more power. He does not ask God to send power from heaven. He prays that believers would know what is already at work toward them. Which tells us that the problem is not availability. It is awareness.

Paul stacks words here intentionally. He speaks of power, working, strength, and might. He is exhausting language to make one thing unmistakably clear. This is not passive potential. This is active, operative, resurrection power currently at work in the life of the believer.

And then he anchors that power in history. It is the same power God exerted when He raised Christ from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms. The same power that defeated death. The same power that disarmed every authority. The same power that placed everything under Christ’s feet.

This matters deeply. Because if the power available to you is resurrection power, then the limits you have accepted deserve to be questioned.

Paul is not speaking metaphorically. He is not offering poetic encouragement. He is stating theological fact. Resurrection power is not just something Christ experienced. It is something believers participate in because they are in Christ.

Yet many live as if power is something God gives occasionally rather than a reality they are meant to walk in daily.

This is why believers can be sincere and exhausted. Faithful and frustrated. Saved and still living as if everything depends on their own strength. Because when power is not perceived, life is lived from self effort rather than divine supply.

Paul refuses to let the church separate Christ’s victory from their present reality. Jesus is not waiting to reign. He reigns now. He is seated above every rule, authority, power, and dominion. And then Paul makes a statement so bold it almost feels dangerous if we do not believe it fully. God placed all things under Christ’s feet and appointed Him as Head over everything for the church. For the church.

This means Christ’s authority is not distant. It is relational. It is exercised on behalf of His body. And the church is described as His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. Let that settle…

Christ chooses to express His fullness through His people. He chooses to make His authority visible through the church. Which means the church was never meant to be powerless, timid, or reactive.

But again, without revelation, power remains theoretical. Believers pray for breakthroughs while already standing in authority. They ask God to move while unaware that they have been seated with Christ. They wait for power to arrive instead of awakening to the power already at work within them.

Power available does not automatically become power experienced. It becomes experienced when revelation opens our eyes and faith responds.

This is not about hype or noise or spiritual performance. It is about alignment. About living from where you are seated, not from where you feel. About trusting what God has declared over what circumstances suggest.

When power is perceived, prayer changes. Worship deepens. Obedience strengthens. Fear loses its grip. You stop negotiating with darkness and start enforcing what Christ has already won.

This is why Paul prays first for revelation. Because without it, believers will live beneath their inheritance and misinterpret their struggles as weakness rather than invitations to stand in truth.

The prayer of Ephesians 1 invites us into a bold reorientation. Lord, open my eyes to the power already at work in me. Let me live from resurrection life, not self effort.
Teach me to stand where Christ is seated.

Because when power is finally experienced, faith becomes confident, the church becomes radiant, and the world begins to see the fullness of Christ made visible through His people.

And that was always the plan.

Love
V.L