Empowerment

1. authority or power given to someone to do something.

o the process of becoming stronger and more confident, especially in controlling one's life and
claiming one's rights.

Ephesians 3:14-21
King James Version
14 
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15 
Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
16 
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by
his Spirit in the inner man;
17 
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and
height;
19 
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the
fulness of God.
20 
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think,
according to the power that worketh in us,
21 
Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

1. Progress In Experiencing The Spirit’s Power (16b)

…to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man (16b), Talking about the
experiential dimension of the Spirit’s indwelling. Many Christians never experience the
strengthening of the inner man through the Spirit’s power. The inner man is the opposite of the
“outer man”. The outer man is perishing, temporary, but our inner man is being renewed day by
day (2 Cor. 4:16). The outer man is our physical life but the inner man is our spiritual life. Just
like our physical life, our spiritual life must grow and be strengthened. We do this by letting the
Holy Spirit control us (Gal. 5:25), fill us (5:18), and empower us

2. Progress In Experiencing Christ’s Indwelling (17a)…that Christ may dwell in your hearts by
faith (17a)

The strengthening by the Spirit is a parallel thought to Christ dwelling in our hearts by faith. We
are the temple of the Holy Spirit (Rom. 8:9, 10; 1 Cor. 6:19) and when Christ indwells us by the
Spirit (Jn. 14:16-18) he strengthens us. This is not Christ’s indwelling at salvation but in
sanctification. Paul is not praying for something we already have but for the indwelling of Christ
through the empowering of the Spirit that we experience by degrees throughout our Christian
lives.

To dwell has the sense of being at home, settled, resident. For Christ to dwell in our hearts we
must submit to the Spirit’s power. So, when you pray, ask God that Christ by his Spirit may be at
home in your heart, control you, and strengthen you.
Pray for For Deeper Understanding (17b)deeper and deeper intellectual and experiential
understanding of Christ’s love.

1. Deeper Understanding Of The Immensity Of Christ’s Love (18)

… so that you, having been rooted and grounded in love… (17b). 

Do you have a deep, abiding love for God and for his people? Is the love you display rooted and
grounded in the power of the Spirit and the indwelling presence of Christ in your heart. Are you firmly
established in love? Is it the foundation of your life? Or, is it a fickle, transient, self-indulgent love that
wavers depending on how others treat you?

Prayers points - God’s love for us in Christ generates in us a love for one another and it drives us to, and
gives us a hunger for, a deeper understanding of Christ’s love. Only those who themselves are rooted
and grounded in love can possibly have any sense or knowledge of Christ’s love. That’s why the
assumption is here that we are first rooted and grounded in love before we can progress to a deeper
understanding of Christ’s love (19a).

III. Ask For Growth In Godliness (19b)

This is the ultimate result that we are striving for: …that you may be filled to all the fullness of
God (19b). Do you see the progression here? The Spirit strengthens us, Christ indwells us, his love
embraces us, God’s fullness grows in us. The Christian life is one of continuous progress in spirituality
and growth in understanding.

2 Peter 1:2-8
 
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as
His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the
knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us
exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine
nature, having escaped the  corruption that is in the world through lust.
[a]

5 
But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to
virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control  perseverance, to perseverance
[b]

godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things
are yours and abound, you will be neither  barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord
[c]

Jesus Christ.

This fullness signifies total dominance. Just as you may be filled with rage or happiness so that it
dominates you, so you may be filled with the fullness of God - nothing left of self, no room for anything
else, all of God.

We are to aspire to be filled to all the fullness of God, to be totally overtaken by his power and
presence, his life and rule. God wants us to be fully like him. But that should be our desire even now, to
grow in Christ-likeness toward that final state of perfection as we are being “transformed from one
degree of glory to another” (2 Cor. 3:18).

Father, I thank you because in the middle of hopelessness, I have hope in you and my tomorrow will be
alright.
2. Lord, insulate my destiny and purpose from the effects of all the negativity happening in our
generation.
3. The siege against entities (people, businesses, ministries) that is helpful to me that will affect me
negatively y – let it expire now!

THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A WAY AND AN OPPORTUNITY WILL OPEN UP SOON!

Dan 1:3 Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel,
both of the royal family and of the nobility,
Dan 1:4 youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with
knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king’s palace, and to teach them the
literature and language of the Chaldeans.

4. Father, whatever it will take, I decree I will not be stranded!

5. Everything that I have that has been wasting and have no value placed on it – open the door for them
now!
6. Lord, for my sake, they will look for people like me and what I have – e.g “youths”, “woman”, “man”
7. The power not to give up before the “king” and influencers start looking for me – GIVE ME NOW!

8. Every limitation in my life that has permanently tied me down and unable to get ready – DELIVER ME
NOW!
9. Every skill and wisdom that is untapped in my life – activate them Lord!
10. Whatever skill I need to acquire to become a champion – lead me into it and make me a success at it.
21. From now, I will be competent to stand in front of leaders, kings and rulers! I receive power to be
competent
23. When it matters most, help me to be strong! Lord help me to be strong! Empower my strength till I
overcome.

13 The man tbegan to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous; Genesis
26:13

Moses pleaded with God that His presence should go with him or else He will not move. Then
God spoke!
And GOD said to Moses, I will do this thing also that you have spoken. For you have found
grace in My sight, and I know you by name. Exo 33:17

Scriptural Reading: 1st Samuel 2:26-And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the
Lord, and also with men.

Luke 2:52- And Jesusincreased in wisdom and stature,and in favor with God and men.
Prayer Points:
1. O Lord make me your preferred candidate for testimony in the name of Jesus.
2. Thou power for divine excellence fall upon me in the name of Jesus.
3. Power creating a visionless life for my destiny, be arrested in the name of Jesus.
4. I receive the anointing for supernatural lifting in the name of Jesus.
6. Every pollution preventing excellence in my life be flushed out in the name of Jesus.
7. O God arise and set me above all my oppositions in the name of Jesus.
8. Every power envious of the excellence of God in me die in the name of Jesus.
9. O Lord let the excellent spirit in Christ cleave upon me in the name of Jesus.
10. Any power plotting to attack the godliness in my life scatter in the name of Jesus .
11. Oh Lord, grant me the power to live in excellence in the name of Jesus.
12. O Lord, let my life be free of errors and mistakes in the name of Jesus.
13. Spirit of faultless living possess me in the name of Jesus.
14. O Lord, make me exemplary in this generation in the name of Jesus.
15. I break down the power of errors and mistakes contending against me in the name of Jesus.
16. Excellent spirit of God, possess me and my children in the name of Jesus.
19. I move and operate in excellence by the power in the blood of Jesus.
20. I receive divine preference whether the devil likes it or not in the name of Jesus.
21. O God Almighty, make me number ONE among my contemporaries in the name of Jesus.
22. O God, let your spirit of excellence operate in every area of my life in the name of Jesus.
23. Anything not planted by God in my life, be uprooted in the name of Jesus.
24. Every evil handwriting contrary to my life be erased by the blood of Jesus.