DECLARING THE FULLNESS OF GOD

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ – Ephesians 1:3

DECLARING the FULLNESS of GOD is one of the most positive ways of nurturing His fullness. We must practise this consistently! Ephesians 1:1-21, 3:14-19 and Colossians 1:9-14 are three unique sets of prayers among the recorded prayers of the apostle Paul. Let us meditate on and declare these boldly and regularly, with a heart filled with faith, backed up with praying in the Spirit:

I thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed me with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. I receive abundance of Grace and Peace from my Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who has chosen me in Him from the foundation of the world, and empowered me to be holy and blameless before Him in love. He predestined me for adoption as a son by Jesus Christ, to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will. To the praise of the glory of His grace, He has made me accepted in the Beloved. In Him I have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace (Eph.1:2-7).

I believe and declare that the God of my Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, has given to me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. The eyes of my understanding are being enlightened to know: what is the hope of His plan and calling for my life; the richness of the glory of His inheritance in me; and the exceeding greatness of His power toward me as I believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, both in this age and in the next (Eph.1:18-21).

I thank God that I am His child and a member of His family. I believe as I confess, that the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ – and my Father – from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, will grant me, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in my inner man. I confess that Christ dwells in my heart through faith; that I, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height – to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge. I declare that I am filled with all the fullness of God, because I know the love of Christ that passes all knowledge (Eph.3:14-19).

I pray and believe that I shall be filled with the knowledge of God’s will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. I shall continually walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. I am progressively strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy. I give thanks to the Father who has qualified me to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered me from the power and dominion of darkness and conveyed me into the Kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom I have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins (Col.1:9-14).

Pray and declare these scriptural prophetic prayers regularly; personalize them until they ooze out of your pores. You may not ‘feel’ anything. We walk by faith, not by sight, senses or feelings. The word of God is not emotional but spiritual. Over time, you will sense a transformation in your heart. The Spirit of God will be at work wherever the Word of God is highly esteemed. Keep at it. Never give up! Let God change you for the best as you nurture the Life of Christ in you into maturity and fullness.