"What Does God Want to Impart in You?"

Scripture: “I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being” –Ephesians 3:16, NIV

As children, either our mother or our father did what they could to take care of the house and the bills. They did what they could to provide you the toys and things that were heart’s desires. They also did what they could to instill you what is right and what is wrong when it comes to living on this pretty but crazy place known as Earth. Most importantly, if you hung around your parents or grandparents or anyone of age long enough, they have a way of imparting wisdom and knowledge into you. If you think about it on today, many of the decisions we make are based on the things that were imparted into us by our mothers, our fathers, our grandparents, and others of age and wisdom. As they imparted wisdom into your life, someone else wants to impart into you as well. This someone is our Heavenly Father through His Son Jesus Christ and the blessed Holy Spirit. Within today’s text, Paul explains what God wants to impart into you.

Within this third chapter of Ephesians, the Apostle Paul does two things: 1) He introduces himself as the preacher to the Gentiles (people that are not Jews) and 2) a prayer he has for the church at Ephesus. Within the second thing of his prayer for the church at Ephesus, we find what God would like to impart into you. Paul begins the text by saying, “I pray that out of His glorious riches”. In other words, what God wants to impart into you comes from His soul and it comes with potency! Isn’t it a blessing to know that as God blesses you, He wants to bless you in a potent way? He just does not want to give you a shallow blessing, He wants to give you an awesome blessing!

As Paul continues this prayer, he finishes it out like this, “He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being”. What God wants to impart into you, my brother and my sister, is His power! He does not want to impart into you the world’s power, but His power! He wants to impart into you His power that it may reach your inner man! He wants to impart this power that will make you check yourself in life’s decisions! He wants to impart this power that will make you love even when hurt is inside of you! He wants to impart this power that will make love those who despitefully use you! He wants to import this power that will make you more financial savvy! He wants to impart this power into you that you may cast out demons in His name! He wants to impart this power that will make you be the best employee, the best employer, the best leader, the best lover, the best husband, the best wife, the best son, the best daughter, and the best of everything!

In closing, I am thankful for being surrounded and surrounding myself with elder people and parents. From them, they imparted into me a lot of wisdom and knowledge. Many of you probably have the same testimony on today. There’s one impartation that beats them all and that’s the impartation of God’s power into your inner being and my inner being! Aren’t you glad about God wanting to impart His power into you? As He does it, make the best use of it possible!