Riches of His Glory

Our prayer verse for this week is Ephesians 3:16-17a:

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.

In looking at the NIV and also the ESV below I notice that what we are asking God to do will come from "his glorious riches" or "riches of his glory". When we ask someone for something then one consideration is whether that person has the capacity to give. When we ask of God the reality is that God has riches beyond our comprehension. There is no limit to what God has. And what he has is "glorious". Or, as the ESV reads, the riches of his "glory". Just think that out of who He is .. glory .. His nature .. He will give. What could be better than God giving out of who He is. Glory!

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Ephesians 3:16-17 from ESV

that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith

Ephesians 3:14-19 from the Message

My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you'll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ's love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.

Ephesians 3:16-17 from NASV

that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, 17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith;