He hath chosen us in him...holy and without blame before him in love...[adopted as] children...and accepted in the beloved.

– Ephesians 1:4-6

According to the pleasure of His will, your have been chosen by God.  Before the foundation of the world, you were chosen to be before God, in His presence, to live holy, without blame, accepted in the Beloved as part of the family of God.  This was God’s desire, God’s plan, and was accomplished by God’s provision!  God’s will for you is a close, intimate relationship with Him, a righteous and holy standing before God.  What Adam lost in the garden, God restored on the cross!  You are a child of the living God.  Guilt-free!  Condemnation-free!  With a legal right to come boldly into His presence.  You are no longer a stranger or foreigner to God, but a fellow-citizen and a member of the household of God (Eph. 2:19).  Stop begging and pleading for the things of God as if they do not belong to you.  Stop trying to convince God to do for you what He has already provided for and desires for you to have!  Come holy, come righteous, come unblameable, come chosen, come accepted–-before Him, in love, and obtain all the mercy and find all the grace you need.  He is waiting daily to make all blessings for you alive to you!  You have no excuse!  Come boldly!

...it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him.

...And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him though all the region round about.

– Luke 3:22a, 4:14

Jesus of Nazareth stood apart from the rest of the world.  He lived in victory and did great works among the people.  What set Him apart?  What made Him so different that crowds of people would hunt him down?  God had anointed Him!  For 30 years He lived as a carpenter's son, the son of Mary, with brothers and sisters.  But then one day in the river Jordan, the Spirit of the Lord came upon Him.  It is the anointing that made the difference in His life.  It is the anointing that will make the difference in your life.  God has anointed you to live above the ordinary. 

..able to do...above all that we ask or think...       -– Ephesians 3:20

Notice that God’s power in you, and even God’s ability, are limited to your thoughts and your asking.  To think of yourself as weak, helpless, or powerless will cut you off from Almighty God’s power in you.  Many ask, “Why doesn’t God do this?  Why doesn’t God do that?”  If you can think it and ask it, the power in you is more than enough to bring it to pass!  Little thinking and little asking has left the Church with little power and little God-activity.  Let the Word of God expand your thought-life; allow it to develop a prayer life in you to think and ask big things.  God is not holding back on you; you are thinking your way out of all He wants you to have.  Turn off the radio, shut down the TV, let the Word become a reality to you by meditation and prayer.  All things are possible for you!  He desires that you prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers (3 John 2).  You will never out-think the ability and power that is in you.  It is exceedingly great power and it is to you!

In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. 

— Ephesians 2:22

God reveals His plan and purpose for mankind in this verse.  He desires for us to be a habitation, a dwelling place or house, for His Spirit and presence.  He does not want to visit you periodically or on Sundays at church, but desires for you to understand:  you are the habitation of God.  Almighty God is with you and in you all the time.  Every minute of every day, there needs to be a God-consciousness in your thought-life.  What a privilege and honor for God to take up residence–-in you!  If God is for you, and with you, and in you – who can be against you?  You are the House of God!