This document discusses praying to know God better through wisdom and revelation from the Holy Spirit. It encourages thanking God for the faith of believers and praying to understand the hope of God's calling, His inheritance in believers, and His great power, as described in Ephesians 1. Various quotes are provided about hope and Scripture giving encouragement. The overall message is to pray for enlightenment on these spiritual blessings and truths.

2. Blessings from God the
Father
Chosen us – Eph 1:4
Adopted us – Eph 1:5
Recounting our blessings

3. Blessings from God the Son
Redeemed us – Eph 1:7a
Forgiven us – Eph 1:7b
Revealed God’s will to us –
Eph 1:8-10
Recounting our blessings

4. Blessings from God the Holy
Spirit
Sealed us – Eph 1:13
Guarantees our inheritance –
Eph 1:14
Recounting our blessings

5. Series
‘Our riches and responsibilities
as believers’
‘Pray for
enlightenment’
Eph 1:15-23

6. William Randolf Hearst

7. Thank God for the faith & love of
other believers
For this reason, ever since I
heard about your faith in the
Lord Jesus and your love for all
God’s people - Eph 1:15
I have not stopped giving thanks
for you, remembering you in my
prayers - Eph 1:16

8. Pray to know God better
I keep asking that the God of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious
Father,
may give you the Spirit of wisdom
and revelation, so that you may
know him better.
I pray that the eyes of your heart

9. “For my thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways my
ways,” declares the Lord. “As the
heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your
ways and my thoughts than your
thoughts”

10. Pray to know the hope of God’s
calling
in order that you may know
the hope to which He has called you
Eph 1:18b

11. Pray to know the hope of God’s
calling
But you are a chosen people, a
royal priesthood, a holy nation,
God’s special possession, that you
may declare the praises of Him who
called you out of darkness into his
wonderful light

12. Pray to know the hope of God’s
calling
“To live without
hope is to cease
to live”
Fyodor
Dostoevsky

13. Pray to know the hope of God’s
calling
a living hope
In His great mercy he has given us
new birth into a living hope through
the resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead
1 Pet 1:3-4

14. Pray to know the hope of God’s
calling
a blessed hope
live self-controlled, upright and
godly lives in this present age,
while we wait for the blessed hope –
the appearing of the glory of our
great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ

15. Pray to know the hope of God’s
calling
a secure hope
We have this hope as an
anchor for the soul, firm and secure
Heb 6:19a

16. All Scripture gives us hope
For everything that was written
in the past was written to teach
us, so that through the
endurance taught in the
Scriptures and the
encouragement they provide we

17. May the God of hope fill you
with all joy and peace as you
trust in him, so that you may
overflow with hope by the power
of the Holy Spirit
Rom 15:13

18. Pray that we will know His
inheritance in us
the riches of His glorious
inheritance
in His holy people
Eph 1:18c

19. Pray that we will know His great
power
… His incomparably great power for
us who believe. That power is the
same as the mighty strength He
exerted when He raised Christ from
the dead and seated him at his
right hand in the heavenly realms
…

20. May God give us the
desire to know
• Him better• The hope of His
calling
• His inheritance
in us
• His great
power