I like the book of Ephesians simply because it talks about things that we Christians seem to understand but in reality do not understand.

First of all in chapter 1 verse 3 we read:  praise be to the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.

What does that mean? What does that tell me?

I want to unpack the verse, this is the way i understand it, there is not much of theological issues here.

Praise be to the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ

I think we are all good with that, we praise Him

Who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing, He blessed us with peace, Joy, strength and his Spirit, but the question is: why do we ask for all these heavenly blessings which were already given to us by Jesus?

Why do we ask God for his presence to go with us when He is already in us?

Why do we ask the Holy Ghost to be with us when He is already dwelling in us?

Why do we ask God to give us strength when the bible clearly states that He is our strength?

Note, He has blessed us, past tense, He already blessed us, nor is it He will bless us or blesses us, yet we still find ourselves praying for His presence to fill the room, for the Spirit to come and for his presence to go with us, like Moses saying to God, “God if you do not go with us we will not go out into battle”, Moses did not have the Spirit of God back at that point, come on folks let us get real here, he is with us I am often reminded of John 14 when he is giving his farewell words to the disciples: if you love me you will obey what I command. And i will ask the Father and He will give you Counselor to be with you forever.

Let us remember, back in those days, namely, in John 14, the Spirit was with them, no question about that, but the Spirit was not in them at that point time , The Spirit came at Pentecost and they were all full with the Holy Ghost.

Are we going to keep asking for the things we already have???

Something to chew on folks...