Saturday 2021.08.21
Shabbat Shalom.
Today is the Seventh Day of the Biblical Week. Let us keep the Fourth Commandment. Let us remember the Shabbat and keep it holy by resting from all our work until sunset this evening.
This morning my OT reading of the Latter Prophets in the Neviim of the Hebrew division of scriptures covers chapters 29 through 35 of the book of Isaiah.
In the NT, I started reading the first two chapters of the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians. In Ephesians chapter one, the apostle Paul wrote about his prayer for the Ephesian brethren:
Ephesians 1:17 - 23 KJV
17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
I have also written two short posts about the prayers of the Apostle Paul for the Ephesians, firstly in chapter one, and again in chapter three, in my devotional blog, as follows:
