Ephesians-1:18-21,-ephesians-2:4-6

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know.... (Ephesians 1:18 NIV)

The Holy Spirit's illumination concerning the
church is a thing so difficult to explain to any who may not have experienced
it. But to those who have seen it, it needs no explanation. It makes such a
difference on all these matters. You will be able to preach Ephesians,

I received my message from no human source, and no one taught me. Instead, I received it by direct revelation from Jesus Christ. (Galatians 1:12 NLT)

For strength to overcome and
press on, only a revelation by the Holy Spirit in us can suffice – but it
can! A revelation that is within one's spirit and not a mental...

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom, and revelation in the
knowledge of Him; having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that you may know... (Ephesians 1:17,18)

And then there is given a list of things to know. And you find that list moves
out into the dimensions of the knowledge-surpassing love: “...that...

I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you. (Ephesians 1:18 NIV)

It is a seeing of the immense significance of Jesus in the eternal and universal order. With the Apostles that seeing was subsequent to the days of physical association. During the forty days after His resurrection it was like the dawning of...

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 raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places
in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 1:20,21; 2:6)

Get a revelation of that to your heart by the Holy Spirit, and see its
emancipating power and its sustaining...

I pray... that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may
know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance
in the saints.
(Ephesians 1:18 NIV)

What is Christ’s inheritance in
the saints? What are the riches of the glory of Christ’s inheritance in the
saints? It is that the saints are to provide Him with...

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may
know... His incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same
as the mighty strength He exerted when He raised Christ from the dead and seated
Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms. (Ephesians 1:18-20 NIV)

Resurrection is the paramount miracle. Death is
the...

I pray also that the eyes of your
heart may be enlightened. (Ephesians 1:18 NIV)

"The eyes of your heart enlightened..."
discerning love. Love is as far removed from blindness as heaven from earth.
"Love is blind"? No – not true love. The fact is that true love sees everything,
but transcends everything. The love of Christ for His disciples was not...