Welcome to “Discipleship Empowerment Keys”!
Title: Given Insight into the Mystery! (Part Three) Fulness & Power
Key Verses: “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3:20-21
Key Background: Eph 3:8-11
- Mystery that I should preach v8
- Mystery of our fellowship v9
- Mystery of God’s manifold wisdom v10
- Mystery according to the eternal purpose v11
- Mystery of our boldness and confidence v12
Key Framework and Points: Eph 3:13-21 mystery, revealed, secret, unknown
1) Paul, for this reason I bow my knee to the Father v14
2) Mystery of the family v15 family – household, brothers and sisters, lineage
a. named
3) Mystery of inner strength v16 strength – vigor, might, power
a. According to His riches
b. Through His Spirit
4) Mystery of faith v17
a. Dwells in your heart dwells – abides, resides, inhabits
b. Rooted and grounded in love rooted – ingrained, established, entrenched
5) Mystery of the big picture 18
a. Comprehend – width, length, depth, and height comprehend – grasp, understand, realize
6) Mystery of God’s fulness in us fulness – bountiful, ample
a. Love of Christ passes all knowledge
7) Mystery of His abundance v20 abundance – riches, plenty, wealth, all one needs
a. Able – exceeding all that we ask, think
b. According to the power that works in us power – energy, strength, control
8) Mystery of the church v21 church – body of believers, gathering of disciples
a. To all generations
Key Discipleship Principle:
The disciple needs to come to a deeper understanding about the mysteries of the power of Jesus Christ and to know that He desires to indwell and work through us with abundance of His love.

Key Personal Application:
Our life must be one that lives and function according to the headship of Christ, being able to do all things because we are rooted and grounded in the power of His love.

Key Church Application:
The church as a body of believers must realize that we are called to make known to others the fulness and power of God, to come into the understanding concerning the width, length, depth, height, of His love and that He is able to do all things according to the power that is to be working in the believers of His church.

Key Question: What kind of power and fulness are we grounded and rooted in, that of the world or that of the living fulness Christ?

Key Prayer Focus for Today: To pray, that we may see in a real way the fulness and power that Christ desires to abundantly pour out in us through His love to others.
Feb 20, 2022. #696