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Spiritual power comes as the believer increasingly allows Christ to dwell within. 

Paul states that the specific purpose of his prayer for spiritual power is so that Christ would dwell in their hearts through faith (Ephesians 3:17). When we invite guests to stay with us, we often encourage them to “make themselves at home,” but we don’t allow them to go into our bedroom or look through our closets. What we really mean is they should make themselves “at room.” 

The same is often true of our invitation to allow Christ to have lordship over our lives. There are certain areas in which we are willing for Him to rule and direct, but there are other rooms that we will not allow Christ to enter into and make Himself “at home.” When we give Christ the access and freedom to run the property, we gain an increased understanding of the vastness of His love for us—even in the midst of the messy homes of our lives. 

Paul prays that as these Christians allow Christ to dwell within their hearts so they would come to know the breadth and length and height and depth of the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge (3:18-19). 

This increased knowledge of the love of God for us in Christ gives us an increased capacity to experience the benefit of spiritual power that comes from God as our lives become filled up with all the fullness of God (3:19).    

Are you allowing Christ to “dwell” in all the rooms of your life? Have you given Him complete ownership of the property?