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Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation (Eph 1:15-21)

Has there ever been a time in your experience when hope sustained you?

Read Ephesians 1:1-14 and try to identify the spiritual blessings we have in Christ. Which of these blessings means most to you?

What is the “mystery of [God’s] will,” referred to in verse 9?

Who is the “you” of verse 13?

Explain the reason (for this reason, verses 15-16,) that Paul has not stopped praying for the Ephesians.

What does it mean to remember someone in your prayers (v. 16)? Might it be more than remembering to mention them in a list of requests?

What is Paul’s request for the Ephesians (v. 17)?

What is the spirit of wisdom and revelation? How would someone who has been given this spirit be different from someone who does not have this spirit?

Explain the place of wisdom and the place of revelation in a believer’s life.

Is the spirit of revelation still needed, now that the canon of Scripture has been completed? How can we avoid the danger of believing false revelations?

What does it mean to have the “eyes of one’s heart” enlightened? Is this different from intellectual insight? Explain.

How might a person who has hope differ from a person who does not?

What is God’s calling for the Jesus-follower? (You may want to read Romans 1:5-7; 1 Cor. 1:9; Phil. 3:14; 1 Thess. 2:12; 4:7; 2 Thess. 2:14.)

Describe “the hope to which you have been called” (literally, “the hope of his calling”). What does it entail?

What about this passage is most striking to you? Is there something we should do about it?

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