Eph. 3:16 Roughly speaking, the prayer is divided into four petitions, of which each is the cause of the following and the result of the preceding-

1. ’That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man’  

2. ‘In order that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith,’ ‘ye being rooted and grounded in love’ 

3. The result of the first, and the preparation for the third. ‘That ye may be able to comprehend with all saints ... and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge,’   

4. And all lead up at last to that wonderful desire beyond which nothing is possible-

’That you might be filled with all the fullness of God.’

I do not know what Christianity means, unless it means that you and I are forgiven for a purpose; the purpose being that we should be filled with all the strength and righteousness and supernatural life granted to us by the Spirit of God.

The Gospel is the gift of pardon for holiness, and its inmost and most characteristic bestowment is the bestowment of a new power for obedience and service.

And that power, as I need not remind you, is given to us through the gift of the Divine Spirit. The very name of that Spirit is the ‘Spirit of Might.’ Christ spoke to us about being ‘endued with power from on high.’ The last of His promises that dropped from His lips upon earth was the promise that His followers should receive the power of the Spirit coming upon them.