Nuggets from the Book of Ephesians Chapter 1 He hath CHOSEN us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love V.4 Salvation thus depends totally on God and our salvation is in accordance to His plans.  Salvation was in the mind of God long before we existed and because of Christ we are accepted and considered blameless in His sight.  Our relationship with God is secure because of our relationship with Christ.  We thus need to have a thankful heart for His awesome love on our behalf. HAVE YOU ENTERED INTO THIS RELATIONSHIP THAT GOD HAS SO ORCHESTRATED? Wisdom and understanding as mentioned in v.8 involves God's Grace which includes His mercy and love being extended.   God's grace is a necessary factor with scripture revealing that His grace is truly sufficient 11 Cor. 12:9.  This involves that we acknowledge our inability to save ourselves with the realization only God can save us with the only avenue of hope is in receiving this loving favor through our faith in Christ acknowledging thus whom He is and all that He can mean to us personally. It is God's good pleasure that we are restored and in fellowship with our Creator whereby He desires to reveal to us treasures of His Kingdom IT IS A RELATIONSHIP OF LOVE WHEREBY WE ACKNOWLEDGE CHRIST AS LORD OF OUR HEART AND LIFE AND BEING. Let us thus be vessels of Praise thereby glorifying and honoring our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who so desires to manifest the reality of the Father's love in and through us through the working of the Holy Spirit. Those who believe are sealed with the Holy Spirit v.13.  The Holy Spirit is God's seal that we belong to him and the presence of the Holy Spirit  releases that which He has so promised to bring to pass with the presence of the Holy Spirit transforming us whereby we taste of that which is yet to come God reaches forth to extend of His wisdom along with revelations of Him so that we can thus know Him in yet a greater way due to the cretive work of the Holy Spirit v.17 He opens our understanding that we might know what the hope of His calling is and the riches in glory that can be ours.  Hope is not a vague feeling  but a complete assurance of certain victory through the work of the Holy Spirit (the Comfortor) which Christ promised to all His followers who so believe and thus respond. If we truly believe there is available the POWER of the SPIRIT of GOD.  Through the power of the Holy Spirit as we maintain a thankful attitude we will come into an understanding and knowledge that will cause us to exalt Christ and not ourselves whereby He will live a resurrected life through us which will cause others to be convicted of sin and will cause others to have a desire for the things of God because of the presence of the Holy Spirit with us, flowing out to others as He guides.  OUR VERY PRESENCE SHOULD BE A TESTIMONY DUE TO OUR BEING A CHANNEL FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT His fullness includes the gifts and blessings available as we so abide in Christ with His word resident and active in our heart and soul. GOD IS IN CONTROL and WE NEED TO BE AN EXPRESSION OF CHRIST IN ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE   The power of the Holy Spirit available through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ with the Blessings of God being manifest REPENT and FORGIVE with DIVINE REVELATIONS ENCOUNTERED BLESSINGS AVAILABLE IN CHRIST FOR HE DRAWS US FORTH TO SO ENCOUNTER THAT WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY INTENDED We give you thanks Lord Jesus for there is much that we have  yet to comprehend and so experience but we bid You Welcome in every aspect of our life Charlotte   A Bee bg