Filled with the Fullness: Ephesians 3:14-21

For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.

Paul kneels. Jews typically stood to pray, hands raised. But Paul kneels—the posture of urgency, of desperation, of a man who needs what only God can give.

Before the Father. The word is pater—Father. From this word comes patria—family, clan, lineage. Every family derives its name—its very concept of family—from the Father. He is the original. Human families are echoes.

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being.