Ephesians 1

Thank you, Father, for grace and peace from you and the Lord Jesus. You are the God of my Lord Jesus, the Christ, and you have blessed me with every spiritual blessing in the Heavenly Christ.

You chose me before the foundation of the world that I would be holy and blameless before you in love. You predestined me to be adopted as your son through Christ according to your good pleasure to the praise of your glory and power and grace filled love.

In all this, you did all that had to be done to make me acceptable in the Beloved, that is in Christ. In Christ I have redemption through his atoning sacrifice and the forgiveness of my sins.

You, Lord Jesus, have made known to me the mystery of God’s will. That with grace he would gather together in one all that were his into you, his Christ.

This grace abounds to me and becomes wisdom and prudence, and through Christ in me, you, Father, work all things according to the council of your will.