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Dear Young Christian:
As you start out this week, remember, you don’t have to pray for new blessings, or the second blessing, or more blessings. The New Testament plainly and indisputably declares, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with ALL spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ” (Ephesians 1:3). We have it all, by His grace, and through the work of Christ on the cross. We are rich, rich in Christ! “For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich” (2 Corinthians 8:9).
However, what we do need to pray is that God will give us the spiritual understanding and purpose of heart to grasp these blessings, to make them our own, to rejoice in them, to live in the light of them, and to walk in the power and good of all that is ours in Christ. We often go through life as spiritual paupers when all the time we are wonderfully blessed with “the unsearchable riches of Christ” (Ephesians 3:8).
Your Christian Friend,
Jim Hyland
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